Sports and activities of the 1970

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Sportsand activities of the 1970s

• By
• Ian Weaver
• Jonathan Ingold
• AJ Smilinich
• Will Greenthal
• Dan DApice

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Most popular Sports

• Wrestling
• Baseball
• Track and field

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Wrestling

• The 1970s were the youthful years of the
  wrestling program.
• Although wrestling did not have a large amount of
  people that were willing to join the teams, there
  was large student participation at matches.
• Wrestling always had large audiences at matches.

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Baseball

• The baseball field was combined with the football
  field at the time so the quality of the field was
  very bad.
• The quality of the jerseys were extremely low and
  new jerseys were not purchased every year.
• Baseball was a really popular sport.

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Track and field

• Track was also a popular sport.
• In the 1970s, track and field teams still
  participated in events such as hammer toss and
  the javelin throw, before they became illegal to
  use in high schools.
• The hammer toss is a sport that involves throwing
  a steel ball attached to a strong cord. The
  thrower holds a handle on the opposite end of the
  rope from the ball. He then spins and throws the
  hammer, the length of the throw is then measured.

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Popular Clubs

• Sharp shooting club
• Archery club
• Riding club

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Sharpshooting club

• In the 1970s students were permitted to fire
  guns on school grounds and in some cases bring
  their own guns to school. For most other
  students, rifles were provided by the school.
• This was allowed due to low gun tensions.

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Archery club

• The archery club was a club based around becoming
  more accurate while firing bows, cross bows and
  the less popular fletching launchers.
• A fletching launcher is a small cross bow that
  fires thin pointed rods constructed entirely of
  metal, fletching are differed from arrows due to
  the fact that a fletching is quite a bit smaller
  than a regulation arrow and unlike an arrow a
  fletching is one piece where as an arrow has a
  removable tip.

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The riding club

• The riding club was quite popular amongst both
  male and female students.
• This was a very widely appreciated club, even
  though Hornell school never had an actual riding
  track of its own ( like most other schools).

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Scholarships

• Sports scholarships were not offered very openly
  as is today.
• Due to the struggles in Vietnam, in the early
  70s military scholarships were made more
  available.

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The flood

• The flood occurred in 1972.
• Because of the flood the graduating class of 72
  were not able to graduate on schedule.

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Music

• Music was a very popular field of interest in the
  70s.
• This was very popular amongst the student body.
• The band director at the time was Jim Hover,
  Andrew Hovers grandfather.

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styles

• Many girls in the 70s wore micro mini skirts.
  These were considered to revealing. So in 1970,
  girls were allowed to publicly wear pants.
• The first dress code in Hornell High School was
  enforced in the year 1970.