The History of Sports

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Sports In America

• Presented by Russell Vanderheyden
• The History of Sports

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Why Sports Are Important

• Sports began because people needed competition.
• Different towns also competed often for land or
  food.

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The History of Sports
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Track and Field

• Running is considered the oldest sport.
• This came from the concept Fight or Flight

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More Track and Field

• Races sometimes were from one town to another, so
  distances were undetermined.
• Many events were created from strategies that
  helped in war, such as throwing things or jumping
  distance.

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Wrestling

• Fight or Flight also created wrestling
• If you didnt want to run, you needed to know how
  to fight
• Wrestling is known as one of the oldest sports as
  well

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More Wrestling

• The winner was the first person to three pins, or
  until one of the wrestlers gave up.
• Matches would sometimes last hours long until
  only one man was standing.

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Baseball

• Baseball is considered one of Americas past
  times
• Baseball is a sport that many kids grow up
  knowing how to play.
• In the past, many of our American heroes were
  baseball players

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More baseball

• Baseball is becoming more popular again in the
  last few years.
• Records that lasted for a long time are being
  broken, and people want to be a part of the
  history.