America's Favorite Pastime
- Baseball was the “national pastime”
- More people went to baseball games and more people played baseball for fun than any other sport.
- Most famous athlete for the time was George Herman “Babe” Ruth,
All About The Ball
The Negro League
- First game consisted of 18 players or 9 to a team
- Used a Soccer ball as the original basketball
- A second tier sport
- Got Paid $15 dollars a game (except Fred Cooper(got paid $16)
Lets Dive In
- Swimsuits were usually woolen
- First sport that women dominated over men
- Gertrude Ederle was the first women to swim the English Channel
Football On The Rise
- Notre Dame became the most famous college football team.
- September 17, 1920 The American Football Association was founded
- NFL Started with only 11 teams
Fun Facts For All Sports
- Players were often switched to other teams without team members knowing
Balls! Balls! Balls!
- Helen Wills was the first American born woman to achieve international celebrity as a athlete.
- Won eight Wimbledon's, four French Championships, and seven U.S.
Championships between 1923 and 1938.
Works Cited
- http://nicoleg-sports.weebly.com/tennis.html
- http://www.retrowaste.com/1920s/sports-in-the-1920s/
- http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/professional-football-is-born
- http://ncpedia.org/sports/golden-age-sports
- https://historyrat.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/baseballs-golden-age-which-one-is-it/
- https://dm12700.wordpress.com/football-in-the-1920s/
How It All Started
- Modern radio was a big contributor to the rise of sports.
- People could cheer on their team from work, home or any other place
- Texas was the first college football team to offer a live, play-by-play broadcast.
- Every sport had a superstar.
Golden Age Of Sports In The 1920's
By. Moeisha Paige