The Golden Age Of Sports In The 1920's

To start it off, most of the viewers minds have changed on how viewers watch the sport. One way the college football has influenced our society is when it brought attention when it went viral in the 1890 (Gridiron Football). Everybody was looking forward to what they were doing with football. It spread rapidly throughout the whole nations. (Gridiron Football). Where nowadays every college has football or has sports sorta similar to the game of football. They were spreading news by putting it in the newspaper and telling all of their friends. (Gridiron Football). Now days with the invention of the smart phone you can get on your phone and within seconds you know what is

1. Discuss the factors that have resulted in the NFL becoming “America’s Game” and the

In Jeffrey Schranks’ short story, “Sport and the American Dream”, he is trying to show us that the sport America watches and plays, portrays America’s character as a nation. Since America goes from baseball to football we it shows us that we are becoming more violent. his comparisons of sports and war is says best how America changes as a country over the years. Back when baseball was Americas’ pastime to being a totally football country. When we were a baseball country, Americans were happier, not many cared about wars or violence just the enjoyment they got from watching the games with friends or family at the ballpark. It didn’t matter that the sport wasn’t moving at a fast pace or so competitive. Football is the

“Football became my ticket to a college scholarship which, in western Pennsylvania during the early ‘sixties, meant a career instead of getting stuck in the steel-mills” (4). Football is the number one

On November 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate football game in New Brunswick, New Jersey, using a soccer-style game with rules adapted from the London Football Association(Michael Oriard 2017). American football is a combination of two English sport, rugby, and soccer. In term of popularity, soccer is most popular sport in the world, whereas American football is only popular in the United States. American Football and soccer have various differences such as protections gears, the shape of the ball, the way they score points, number of leagues. The comparison between American Football and soccer reveals that soccer is easier to understand and safer than American Football.

Another part of sports in the 1920s was discrimination and prejudice. Alchin said in paragraph 20 of American sports of the 1920s “Racial prejudice against African Americans were prevalent as was discrimination from

Football remains the most popular sport in America and the ninth most popular sport in the world for a reason. Since its creation in 1869, football has played a fundamental part of American society. Every Sunday, my family along with millions of other Americans turn the television to CBS, NBC or FOX to watch their favorite football team go to battle. My family and I bleed burgundy and gold and root for the home team the Washington Redskins. Americans including myself display great intensity and passion for the game of football and the result of the game often changes my attitude for the better or worse. Watching the game on television may come as exhilarating and entertaining, but playing the game creates the best times. Overall football has made a severe impact on many people’s lives. Football teaches unique lessons in a hands on manner which helps athletes like myself sustain a much more adventurous life. Football has made an immeasurably positive influence upon my life, but the sport has its dangers. Football changes lives.

hits emerged. This is when it became the golden age of sports. Some of these people where

Women were in sports also, black athletics started to achieve recognition (the 1920s sports overview).The 1920s was a time for many new opportunities for women in America, including participating in sports and becoming athletes. Prior to the Roaring Twenties, only upper-class women had participated in sports. These wealthy women had joined sports clubs, social clubs, and country clubs. Sports which grew and flourished in the nineteen twenties due to unprecedented publicity and promotion included baseball, tennis, golf, swimming, football and boxing. Newspapers, magazines, radio and movies all played a role in boosting the profile of sport and the sporting giants.The 1920's was a transition period for many sports. Sports that had up until that time been largely amateur events caught the eye of promoters who could see an opportunity to capitalize and make money. The professional football league, golf tours, and tennis circuit were organized. Media publicity ensured large crowds and guaranteed the financial success of the ventures, allowing new stadiums to be built and providing steadily increasing salaries for the sports stars.For Americans in general, participating in and watching sporting events became part of the good life. Radio Broadcasts of college football and professional baseball began early in the 1920s and helped transform local athlete-heroes into national icons. Movie houses showed clips of sports contests and helped create stars. Newspapers and magazines gave the sports reporter a new authority as the media brought information about athletes and athletics to large, receptive audiences. Moreover, radio, movies, and the print media contributed to the "ballyhoo," or inflated dramatic interest, surrounding certain sporting events. They reported every rumor of secret "killer punches" or "evil eyes" being developed by Jack Dempsey and his various heavyweight

The 1920’s was a great time for sports because this was when legends were made and the best of the best got to showcase their skills to everyone. Athletes of the1920’s helped shape the way athletes train today, and open doors for people of any race, color or status. They set a high bar of achievement, allowing new athletes to excel. Sports have changed so much today, that if a player from the 1920s returned, they would find it too complicated to play the

Sports went through many changes in the time period known as the "Roaring Twenties." Some sports were just starting out; others were broadening their horizons, while others were simply becoming more popular. New heroes were emerging in sports, new teams, and even new leagues.

The early 1900 was when sports started being involved with the education system. Educators found that sports could teach lessons to children that they would not necessarily get in the classroom. Sports has been shown to benefit the student athlete in more than one aspect of their lives, but that does not come automatically with just playing sports. While I do believe that participating in sports has a positive effect on players, it is not just the sport that do the trick. No matter the style of coaching, the most important thing a coach can do is be a positive influence on every aspect of the athlete’s life by forming a relationship with their athlete.

This game symbolized the start of changing times in the US and would eventually start a fervor in the US that would bring to the table many unforetold modifications to not only the sport in and of itself, but also the culture around it and how it was looked upon and accepted. One of the first progressive altercations that football brought to the table was women bringing and having a heavy influence in the sport. Even when compared to the other biggest American sporting event baseball, football had a much bigger focus on the numbers of women in the stands thus allowing football to be able to bring to the table something that not many other sports, toughness with sexuality at the same time. Now a rough and tough “manly” game did not have to be only for the male but could also serve other purposes such as a date or a social get together where no one would ever get bored due to the fast pace of the game along with the never before seen mixture of both men and women all in one giant stadium. This sexuality helped ring in the age of women being looked at as more so objects of sex as well as helping to bring sports onto a sort of plain on which anyone could go and see and have a team to root for instead of them simply catering to men of respectable

In order to truly appreciate the overall beneficial influence football has had on American culture between the 1890’s and 1930’s, we cannot turn a blind eye to the negative obstacles football has overcome. In the early years of development, football was played similarly to rugby and universities played by different rules, making standardization within the sport a difficult task to accomplish. One of the major problems observed during the infancy of football was the sheer violence witnessed on the field. Mass play was the common play style during the first years of football in which the entire offensive force would focus on one spot of the defense; the offense was determined to go through the defense rather than go around them. The raw power behind these plays lead to serious injuries as well as the death of a player in the early 1900’s. This disastrous event deterred numerous universities from playing football out of fear of a repeat of events. Following more serious injuries

As the sport became more popular, it also became more violent, especially because of "mass plays.” Mass plays required every member of a side moving together to try to score. According to thepeoplehistory.com, in the 1905 season, 149 serious injuries were recorded from the sport, along with 18 deaths. Action had to be taken, and people were asking for a changes -- including President Theodore Roosevelt. This led to the creation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which still governs college sports in the U.S. today. The rule changes allowed the sport to become more about speed and skill, rather than just brute force. This significantly reduced the number of injuries and deaths.