Kin ch 8 – Flashcard
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
Intercollegiate football helped popularize newspapers, while newspapers helped promote intercollegiate football.
answer
true
question
Which organization in the United States historically dominated the United States Olympic Committee through its control of international competition in several sports?
answer
Amateur Athletic Union
question
Dudley Sargent called the initial meeting that led to the establishment of the Association for the Advancement of Physical Education.
answer
false
question
Men in the elite athletic clubs established in the United States in the mid to late 1800s competed most often in the sport of football.
answer
false
question
Per Henrik Ling's gymnastics program influenced Catharine Beecher and Dioclesian Lewis.
answer
true
question
College faculties initially organized men's intercollegiate athletics.
answer
false
question
Some of the immigration of Germans to the United States was a result of the banning of Turner gymnastics in Germany.
answer
true
question
Catherine Beecher developed calisthenics for females to promote their health, beauty, and strength.
answer
true
question
Swedish gymnastics were popular with females in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
answer
true
question
Societal attitudes toward women in the 1800s restricted their sporting opportunities.
answer
true
question
Who was the most significant person in the formulation of the rules of American football?
answer
Walter Camp
question
Who developed the apparatus or machines used at Harvard in individualized programs for the physical development of students?
answer
Dudley Sargent.
question
What term or phrase describes the influence of European religions on attitudes toward play in the United States beginning in the colonial time and continuing until today?
answer
Protestant work ethic
question
German Turner gymnastics were first introduced in the United States in which of these institutions?
answer
Round Hill School
question
What was the reason for the establishment of the National Collegiate Athletic Association?
answer
To reduce or eliminate injuries and deaths in football
question
The outcome of the "Battle of the Systems" was that Sargent's system became the most popular system in this country in the 1900s.
answer
false
question
Which type of program was taught at the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics?
answer
Swedish gymnastics.
question
Health was a primary goal of Edward Hitchcock's program at Amherst College.
answer
true
question
Football was the first men's intercollegiate event.
answer
false
question
What was Catharine Beecher's physical activity program that was described as a course of exercises designed to promote health, beauty, and strength?
answer
calisthenics
question
The Normal Institute for Physical Education, which was established by Dioclesian Lewis in 1861 in Boston, was the first teacher training school for physical education in the United States.
answer
true
question
Dudley Sargent was a leader in anthropometrics, teacher training, and individualized physical education programs.
answer
true
question
Which of the following institutions offered teachers an outstanding advanced curriculum and faculty, making a certificate from it highly prestigious?
answer
Harvard Summer School
question
Calisthenics is a progressive, precise execution of movements on command for 11 body parts.
answer
false
question
Native Americans borrowed their ball games from European immigrants.
answer
false
question
Who designed exercise machines for individualized physical development?
answer
Dudley Sargent
question
The sporting heritage in the United States came primarily from which country?
answer
Great Britain
question
What system emphasized movements using hand-held apparatus, such as dumb bells and Indian clubs?
answer
Light gymnastics
question
Puritan attitudes favored participation in sporting diversions.
answer
false
question
What was the initial purpose of the YMCA Training School?
answer
Develop the all-around man.
question
A normal school was a teacher training institution.
answer
true
question
Catharine Beecher's calisthenics program consisted of exercises designed to promote health, beauty, and strength, especially for females.
answer
true
question
What was the founding purpose of the Amateur Athletic Union?
answer
To check the evils of professionalism and promote amateur sports.
question
Americans' love for sports began with the development of intercollegiate athletics.
answer
false
question
What was one reason why German gymnastics did not become the basis for the system of physical education in the United States?
answer
Too much emphasis on strength development
question
What is often associated with sports played by Native Americans?
answer
gambling
question
College faculties initially organized men's intercollegiate athletics in the United States.
answer
false
question
What was a primary reason why playgrounds were established in cities in the 1800s?
answer
Assimilation and social control of children
question
German gymnastics were first introduced in this country at Round Hill School.
answer
true
question
College women in the United States initially established, funded, coached, and promoted sport competitions between colleges.
answer
false
question
Anthropometrics were used for various purposes and one to the major topics of shared interest among physical educators in the late 1800s.
answer
true
question
The purpose of the 1889 Boston Conference on Physical Training was to promote Swedish gymnastics, but more importantly it provided exposure to the alternative physical education programs or gymnastics systems popular at the time.
answer
true
question
Per Henrik Ling's gymnastics program influenced Catharine Beecher and Dioclesian Lewis.
answer
true
