KIN 2501 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔Which two men help change the negative stigma and the way of thinking that
resulted from the professionalism vs. amateurism debate? - ✔✔Red Grange & George
Halas
✔✔The American Professional Football League was formed by whom in 1920?
What did he own in Canton, OH? - ✔✔Ralph Hays
He owned the Hupmobile Agency
✔✔Ralph Hays recognized that he needed a structured league and that he wasn't the
businessman to do it, so who did he hire as the president of the American Professional
Football League? - ✔✔Jim Thorpe
(However, Jim wasn't the business mind that Hays' had wanted)
✔✔The American Professional Football League consisted of mostly blue-collar workers
like what? - ✔✔coal miner, factory workers, etc.
✔✔Attendance to the The American Professional Football League was meager, why
weren't there big crowds?
This discouraged college players, so how did this affect the pro FB league? -
✔✔Because of the negative stigma professionalism had back then
They couldn't get good college players to come out and play for them
✔✔In 1922, why did George Halas buy the Dectator team and move it to the major city
of Chicago? - ✔✔Because he thougth that if he moved them here more people would
be interested and they would have more gains and money left over in the month
✔✔What did George Halas say in regards to not being able to get good college FB
players? - ✔✔He said that if they didn't have good notary college FB players that they
wouldn't be able to succeed
✔✔What did Red Grange do in one of his games in both the first half and the second
half? - ✔✔In the first 12 mins he had 2 kickoff returns
In the 2nd half, he scored 2 more touchdowns
✔✔George Halas hires _____________ and advertises him as The Galloping Ghost.
,He gets him to play by promising what?
As a result of him playing for Halas' team, what happened to pro FB? - ✔✔Red Grange
He promises 1/2 the gate, so whatever was made at the gate Grange would get half
Thousands attended the games and pro FB became the legitimized
✔✔Hala understood that in order to make money he had to give money, which is why
he gave Grange 1/2 of the gate, but he also made gains from what? - ✔✔selling
merchandise
✔✔Red Grange was a famous as who?
When did the coach for the University of Chicago approach him to get him to play for
them? - ✔✔Babe Ruth
his senior year
✔✔Basketball in the early 1900s: (2) - ✔✔1. Starts gaining acceptance
2. Spread by the YMCA (so it's learned by kids)
✔✔Basketball in the early 1900s become associated with scholastic sport:
1. By 1905, ____ colleges field teams
2. By WWI, basketball is the most popular ____________ sport and ______ to FB at the
college level - ✔✔1. 80 colleges
2. high school; 2nd
✔✔In 1930, ____________ coaches the 1st basketball game at Kentucky - ✔✔Adolph
Rupp
✔✔Adolph Rupp's teams wow crowds whith what style?
He coaches at the University of Kentucky for ____ years, winning _______ games, and
____ national titles. - ✔✔with an up-tempo, fastbreak style
44 years; 874; 4
✔✔In the late 1930s, there were ______ and ________ post-season tournaments -
✔✔NIT and NCAA
,✔✔What are some things associated with the NCAA in 1906-1910 to 1920 when it was
trying to establish itself (they focused on issues of what)? (5) - ✔✔-recruiting
-eligibility of players
-paying players
-academics
-violations
✔✔Between 1926 and 1929, the NCAA began to investigate college sport for these
issues (recruiting, eligibility, paying players, academics, violations); they added
_________ _________ by doing so, and give consequences to violators but they could
also appeal to the consequences - ✔✔judicial power
✔✔What year was basketball invented? - ✔✔1891
✔✔The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), was heavily involved in basketball, what did they
do? - ✔✔They begin to standardize their rules and encourage students to play
✔✔Adolph Rupp is an icon at which university?
He defeated a smaller university with a score of ___ -___. Why was this impressive? -
✔✔University of Kentucky
67-19; it was impressive because basketball used to be a very slow game
✔✔Basketball used to be a very slow game even in the ____ and _____.
What Rupp did in the 30s was a ____________ style that was more fast-paced, so it
was more of a run and gun up-tempo, which wowed the crowds. Huge crowds came
and made the game very popular - ✔✔60s and 70s
fastbreak
✔✔The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) set up ___________
_____________, so if you can't go to the NCAA, you may go to the _____. An example
of these tournaments could be March Madness. - ✔✔postseason tournaments; NIT
(National Invitation Tournament)
✔✔In the 1920s, pro basketball barnstorming teams of skilled men formed in cities
(along ethnic lines), including which teams? (3) - ✔✔-NY Celtics
-NY Renaissance
-Savoy Big 5 (Chicago)
, ✔✔Was the NY Celtics an all black team or an all white team? What about the NY
Renaissance? - ✔✔Celtics- all white
Renaissance- all black
✔✔Savoy Big 5 of Chicago rename themselves as what? - ✔✔Harlem Globetrotters
✔✔In 1937, which all-white basketball league forms?
In which era did this occur? - ✔✔National Basketball League
Mikan Era
✔✔Did pro basketball have the same stigma that pro FB had in term of people not
wanting to attend or watch these pro games? Why? - ✔✔No, because it was popular
and could be played by everybody so it was more accepted than FB
✔✔____________ stood close to 7ft tall, so that was the Mikan Era. He was a player in
the National Basketball League. - ✔✔George Mike
✔✔The Savoy Big 5 was a black Chicago-based team formed by _______________ -
✔✔Abe Saperstein
✔✔Abe Saperstein renames the The Savoys to the name "_____ ______" to get games
and make people think that his team came all the way from NY.
Later on he wanted his team to be associated with NY renaissance, so he renamed
them _______ __________ to let people know they were a black team and draw crowds
shortly after they began touring. - ✔✔"New York"
Harlem Globetrotters
✔✔"Funny" was the only way black men could be seen as white men in the game and
get away with it, which is what which team did with their entertainment and skill? -
✔✔The Savoy Big 5
✔✔The Savoy Big 5 were the best of the black __________ teams.
They begin to be "funny" to let players rest and appeal to crowds, who was the
funniest/most talented of the players? - ✔✔barnstorming
Reese "Goose" Tatum
2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔Which two men help change the negative stigma and the way of thinking that
resulted from the professionalism vs. amateurism debate? - ✔✔Red Grange & George
Halas
✔✔The American Professional Football League was formed by whom in 1920?
What did he own in Canton, OH? - ✔✔Ralph Hays
He owned the Hupmobile Agency
✔✔Ralph Hays recognized that he needed a structured league and that he wasn't the
businessman to do it, so who did he hire as the president of the American Professional
Football League? - ✔✔Jim Thorpe
(However, Jim wasn't the business mind that Hays' had wanted)
✔✔The American Professional Football League consisted of mostly blue-collar workers
like what? - ✔✔coal miner, factory workers, etc.
✔✔Attendance to the The American Professional Football League was meager, why
weren't there big crowds?
This discouraged college players, so how did this affect the pro FB league? -
✔✔Because of the negative stigma professionalism had back then
They couldn't get good college players to come out and play for them
✔✔In 1922, why did George Halas buy the Dectator team and move it to the major city
of Chicago? - ✔✔Because he thougth that if he moved them here more people would
be interested and they would have more gains and money left over in the month
✔✔What did George Halas say in regards to not being able to get good college FB
players? - ✔✔He said that if they didn't have good notary college FB players that they
wouldn't be able to succeed
✔✔What did Red Grange do in one of his games in both the first half and the second
half? - ✔✔In the first 12 mins he had 2 kickoff returns
In the 2nd half, he scored 2 more touchdowns
✔✔George Halas hires _____________ and advertises him as The Galloping Ghost.
,He gets him to play by promising what?
As a result of him playing for Halas' team, what happened to pro FB? - ✔✔Red Grange
He promises 1/2 the gate, so whatever was made at the gate Grange would get half
Thousands attended the games and pro FB became the legitimized
✔✔Hala understood that in order to make money he had to give money, which is why
he gave Grange 1/2 of the gate, but he also made gains from what? - ✔✔selling
merchandise
✔✔Red Grange was a famous as who?
When did the coach for the University of Chicago approach him to get him to play for
them? - ✔✔Babe Ruth
his senior year
✔✔Basketball in the early 1900s: (2) - ✔✔1. Starts gaining acceptance
2. Spread by the YMCA (so it's learned by kids)
✔✔Basketball in the early 1900s become associated with scholastic sport:
1. By 1905, ____ colleges field teams
2. By WWI, basketball is the most popular ____________ sport and ______ to FB at the
college level - ✔✔1. 80 colleges
2. high school; 2nd
✔✔In 1930, ____________ coaches the 1st basketball game at Kentucky - ✔✔Adolph
Rupp
✔✔Adolph Rupp's teams wow crowds whith what style?
He coaches at the University of Kentucky for ____ years, winning _______ games, and
____ national titles. - ✔✔with an up-tempo, fastbreak style
44 years; 874; 4
✔✔In the late 1930s, there were ______ and ________ post-season tournaments -
✔✔NIT and NCAA
,✔✔What are some things associated with the NCAA in 1906-1910 to 1920 when it was
trying to establish itself (they focused on issues of what)? (5) - ✔✔-recruiting
-eligibility of players
-paying players
-academics
-violations
✔✔Between 1926 and 1929, the NCAA began to investigate college sport for these
issues (recruiting, eligibility, paying players, academics, violations); they added
_________ _________ by doing so, and give consequences to violators but they could
also appeal to the consequences - ✔✔judicial power
✔✔What year was basketball invented? - ✔✔1891
✔✔The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), was heavily involved in basketball, what did they
do? - ✔✔They begin to standardize their rules and encourage students to play
✔✔Adolph Rupp is an icon at which university?
He defeated a smaller university with a score of ___ -___. Why was this impressive? -
✔✔University of Kentucky
67-19; it was impressive because basketball used to be a very slow game
✔✔Basketball used to be a very slow game even in the ____ and _____.
What Rupp did in the 30s was a ____________ style that was more fast-paced, so it
was more of a run and gun up-tempo, which wowed the crowds. Huge crowds came
and made the game very popular - ✔✔60s and 70s
fastbreak
✔✔The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) set up ___________
_____________, so if you can't go to the NCAA, you may go to the _____. An example
of these tournaments could be March Madness. - ✔✔postseason tournaments; NIT
(National Invitation Tournament)
✔✔In the 1920s, pro basketball barnstorming teams of skilled men formed in cities
(along ethnic lines), including which teams? (3) - ✔✔-NY Celtics
-NY Renaissance
-Savoy Big 5 (Chicago)
, ✔✔Was the NY Celtics an all black team or an all white team? What about the NY
Renaissance? - ✔✔Celtics- all white
Renaissance- all black
✔✔Savoy Big 5 of Chicago rename themselves as what? - ✔✔Harlem Globetrotters
✔✔In 1937, which all-white basketball league forms?
In which era did this occur? - ✔✔National Basketball League
Mikan Era
✔✔Did pro basketball have the same stigma that pro FB had in term of people not
wanting to attend or watch these pro games? Why? - ✔✔No, because it was popular
and could be played by everybody so it was more accepted than FB
✔✔____________ stood close to 7ft tall, so that was the Mikan Era. He was a player in
the National Basketball League. - ✔✔George Mike
✔✔The Savoy Big 5 was a black Chicago-based team formed by _______________ -
✔✔Abe Saperstein
✔✔Abe Saperstein renames the The Savoys to the name "_____ ______" to get games
and make people think that his team came all the way from NY.
Later on he wanted his team to be associated with NY renaissance, so he renamed
them _______ __________ to let people know they were a black team and draw crowds
shortly after they began touring. - ✔✔"New York"
Harlem Globetrotters
✔✔"Funny" was the only way black men could be seen as white men in the game and
get away with it, which is what which team did with their entertainment and skill? -
✔✔The Savoy Big 5
✔✔The Savoy Big 5 were the best of the black __________ teams.
They begin to be "funny" to let players rest and appeal to crowds, who was the
funniest/most talented of the players? - ✔✔barnstorming
Reese "Goose" Tatum
