Questions with Correct Verified
Answers 2025\2026 Edition.
icon - Answer An image, representation, or symbol. A representation of something sacred, or
held in high regard.
the golden age of sport - Answer - Sports become an everyday part of American culture
- Sports media and fan
- Automobile, radio, TV bring sport to America
- Increased sports participation (youth, interscholastic, college, adult rec)
- Very few women participating in sports
- Athletes become American icons
Babe Ruth - Answer America's first and largest media darling; becomes face of baseball and
symbol of America
strategy, excitement, fan base - Answer How did Babe Ruth change baseball?
national pastime - Answer Baseball = ___
commissioner - Answer Somebody that would be in the public's eye ruling over baseball
Kennesaw Mountain Landis - Answer Baseball's first commissioner
Black Sox scandal - Answer - 1919 World Series
- Chicago White Sox "fix" series
- Players alleged to have fixed some games for money
- Taken to court but found not guilty
- People questioned the integrity of the game after this
, Andrew Rube Foster - Answer Father of black baseball
Josh Gibson - Answer Catcher, very good hitter, compared to Babe Ruth
Satchel Paige - Answer Very good pitcher, tall and lanky, worked in a railroad station and when
men got off the train he would carry their satchel in exchange for a nickel
female sports in the early 1900's - Answer - Few opportunities
- Basketball, softball, tennis
- Beliefs about "negative health implications" of vigorous PA for women
- Female PE leaders discourage interscholastic and competitive sports for girls
Babe Didrikson - Answer The most significant female athlete of the first half of the 20th century
college - Answer Football is established as the ___ sport
Rose - Answer ___ bowl was the first game in 1902
US military - Answer ___ evolve into football powers
Notre Dame - Answer ___ becomes "America's team"
forward pass - Answer Notre Dame defeated the Army using the ___
Knute Rockne - Answer Promotes Notre Dame via the press, later hired to coach at Notre
Dame, tried to implement the forward pass (not many people used it because it was a high risk
play)
Jim Thorpe - Answer President of American Professional Football League
George Halas - Answer ___ buys Decator Illinois team, moves it to Chicago