Evolution of Sports

Evolution of Sports By:Gavan, Rayyaan, Mathew, and Drew

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Soccer (Rayyaan) Football (Drew) Swimming (Mathew) Baseball (Gavan) Bibliography End slide

Soccer/ Fu’t ball Soccer can be traced back to 2,000 years ago in Ancient China. It consisted of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers through two bamboo poles. However, it was England that allowed soccer to bloom into what it is now today. They created the first rules for soccer that dictate the sport today, such as the inability to touch the ball with your hands or not tripping opponents. Penalties were also introduced in 1891. However, soccer really started in England during 1863, when rugby football and association football split. THe sport used to be primitive and violent with barely any set of regulations.

During this time period, the ball size and weight was made a standard.

soccer/fu’tball part 2 After the ball standards were created, they started to create rules. People were beginning to become injured, so regulations were set up to punish those who did. These were known as fouls.

Soon, official matches became a bigger thing in England. As the love for this sport grew, other countries decided to try this sport. It would start evolving at a rapid pace with more rules being added. Eventually, teams from all around the world started to compete, making this an international sport.

Ever since then, it has evolved into the sport that fans know and love today.

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Swimming Swimming is an international sport that had mainly started in Britain 1830, mainly consisting of breaststroke. However, in 1896, Athens, Greece, swimming had become an olympic sport. FĂŠdĂŠration Internationale de Competitive swimming consists of 4 strokes, Natation, the world swimming association, was formed in 1906. Since then, swimming those being butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. There is also a has become an iconic sport in the olympics. race that consists of those 4 strokes, in the Many swimmers hold different records in order, called IM, or individual medley. HOwever, different races, with the most held by these are only the individual strokes, and the Micheal Phelps, who retired this past olympics at the age of 32, and was chosen distance can range from a 100 to an 800. to be the flag holder. He currently also holds Freestyle can go up a mile. It also depends the record for the most olympic medals whether it is a 25y pool or a 50m pool. won.

Swimming (PT.2) Freestyle is the most common stroke, that had originated in S.America. Englishman, Fredrick Cavill, had traveled to the South Seas, and saw natives performing this stroke. When Cavill had started to settle down in Australia, he taught this stroke, where it gained in popularity. Freestyle was part of swimmings debut in the olympics, and backstroke was added in 1904. HOwever, during the 1940’s olympians discovered that breaststroke was much faster if both arms were taken over the head. This was soon deemed forbidden, but paved the way to the formation of butterfly.

Butterfly was then added to the olympics in 1956, Melbourne.

IM was already an event before butterfly’s appearance, but only consisted of 3 strokes instead of 4. The 150 IM was actually where the butterfly techinque was first seen.

Baseball Baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday in cooperstown, New York, during the summer of 1839, Abner then went on to become a civil war hero, and his invention has become one of America’s favorite pastimes, and has even grown in popularity internationally in countries like Japan. Baseball gloves were not always used, with the first player beleived to use one being Doug Allison in 1870, and the first confirmed person to use one being Charlie Waitt in 1775.

Although now gloves are a baseball staple and used in just about every game, official or other wise. The baseball bat has been a part of the sport since the begining. They started as a curved version of the wooden bat we know today

Baseball part 2 They then evolved to a “Mushroom bat� , this type of bat looked alot like the bats of today except they had a design focused on using counterweights to make it easier to wield the bat, that at that time was very heavy. After that it evolved yet again to the wooden bats we know today, This design would be incorporated in the modern aluminum bat that most people use today. As of now there are 30 mlb teams, baseball is the 2nd. Most popular sport in America, coming a long way from where it began.

Bibliography https:/www.wikipedia.com https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-past-and-future-of-the-baseball-bat-5618957 / https://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-soccer-football.htm https://www.olympic.org/swimming-equipment-and-history WWW.hornetfootball.org www.profootballhof.com http://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/who-we-are/the-game/index.html https://www.google.com/images http://www.swimming.org/sport/history-of-individual-medley/

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