History of modern sports

1. History of
Modern Sports

2. A cricket match c.1830

3. National competitions
started in the
Victorian years

5. Competitive sport
was compatible with
an industrialised
society

6. 1. Competitions were confined to specific
locations
2. Commerce and property were protected
from disruption
3. There were time-limits on competitions
reducing the risk of injury to
participants
4. There were competitions susceptible to
commercial exploitation.

13. “MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY”
was encouraged, the
pursuit of the ideal of:
Mens sana in corpore sano.
A healthy mind in a healthy
body

15. The Ideal of Mens Sana in
Corpore Sano” was often
subverted:
• People played competitively to
win
• ignoring the religious agenda
and
• betting on the outcome

16. The industrial working
class responded
positively to the
opportunity to
participate.

19. Sadly
Football hooliganism
was a Victorian
invention

20. TEAM
GAMES

21. FOOTBALL

23. Football was the
most popular team
sport

24. Football emerged
from the public
schools in the
South during the
1860s

25. IT SOON MOVED
TO THE NORTH
WERE IT BECAME
VERY POPULAR

26. The first team to
win the FA Cup was
BLACKBURN
OLYMPIC in 1883

28. Blackburn is a
city in the North
of England

31. When the football league
was established in 1888,
five of the 12 founders
clubs came from
Lancashire cotton towns
in the North

35. Another famous
football team from
the North of England
was the MOSSLEY FCA

37. MOSSLEY, MANCHESTER

38. rugby

40. Rugby was a
middle-class
sport

44. It developed across
the south and
west of England

45. CRICKET

46. Cricket had southern
origins and moved
north to the
industrial towns

50. Golf and tennis had
different geographies
based on leafy,
lawned suburbs and
leisure towns.

52. GOLF

53. The middle-class liked
individual or family-
oriented sports like
GOLF.
It was imported from
SCOTLAND

57. Golf was identified
with sand dunes
and middle-class
seaside holidays

58. TENNIS

61. Henry VIII was
the first fan of
the game

62. It originated in France.
According to a theory,
the word “tennis” comes
from the word “tenez”,
“to take” , while they
serve the ball.

63. Famous British
sportsmen

69. The end