Athletics Review Questions

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Athletics Review Questions
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• Why was the Amateur Athletic Union established?
• Who started mens college athletics?
• Why was the National Collegiate Athletic
  Association established?
• Why did faculty initially oppose mens collegiate
  athletics?
• Why did faculty change to allow mens collegiate
  athletics?

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• Did the Women's Division of the National Amateur
  Athletic Federation promote or oppose women in
  international competition? Why?
• What philosophy permeated and dominated womens
  approach to physical activity in the 1920s-1960s?
• What is a play day and a sports day?
• Why was the Association for Intercollegiate
  Athletics for Women established?