2) Brundage, Avery. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of the Olympic movement and an unyielding spokesperson for amateur sports. As president of the U.S. Olympic Committee (1930-52), he defeated a proposed boycott of...

3) Luce, Henry Robinson. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Inc. (now AOL Time Warner) and subsequently founded Fortune (1930), a business monthly; Life (1936), a pictorial news magazine; and Sports Illustrated (1954). Through...

4) hockey, field. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Hockey Club (organized 1883) standardized the game after many centuries of informal play in England, and it thereafter spread to other countries, particularly those...

5) Bradman, Sir Donald George. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...he joined the Australian national team. Bradman was probably Australia's greatest sports hero during the 1930s and 40s, setting many records and dominating the cricket...

6) Laban, Rudolf von. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...he established (1946) the Art of Movement Studio in Manchester. There, he worked until his death on his system of notation, known as Kinetographic Laban or Labanotation,...

7) archery. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...at the target's center-a "pinhole" dot surrounded by nine concentric colored circles. The value of hits decreases from the pinhole to the outermost circle. Although...

8) golf. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...feat. During the Depression, many private courses opened to the public, and agencies of the New Deal built nearly 1,000 public courses. 5Golf today is one of America's...

9) 2. Nationalist Options. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...sport of SOCCER, or Association Football, reflecting the broader history. Following World War I, association football became a major feature of social recreational...

10) 5. The British Isles. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...in sexual freedom. Increased wages and shorter work hours after the war allowed a greater number of Britons to spend more time in leisure activities, in which cinemas,...