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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

Do You Remeber The Time

  • 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

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