KIN 2501 : Exam 2 Notes
15 Mar 2019
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Sport and physical activity in modern america 2/10/2015 5:23:00 pm. Running, leaping, wrestling: by 1840, 133 towns had more than 2500 people, 26 states belonged to the union, 5 cities were commercial and social centers (boston, new. York, philadelphia, baltimore, and charleston: 12 million immigrants- irish, german, african, go back. 1800 to 1860: the era of good feelings: horse racing, popular in established cities. Gambling made it controversial and banned in many northern cities: new york, pennsylvania, and new jersey, became more popular in south, rich horse owners. Granted freedom, fought in us and europe: trained under richardson. Fought british champ, tom cribb, 1810: billed as the fight of the century, more than 20,000 people attended, cribb had favored was given 2 min to recover, cribb eventually won even though. British fighters often adopted false names so that losses to people like molineaux would not embarrassing. Knickerbockers were first to wear uniforms: rules.
