What sports were played between 1749-1850?
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@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@HELLO HOW ARE! here this will help you and I am happy to assist you\n\n\nIn October 1749 - 1850, students at John B. Young School wrote to his diary George R. Young, telling about a big sporting event he had recently attended at the Garrison, including 150-yard, 250-yard, and half-mile races. A highlight was climbing the greased pole: "several tried it but none suceeded till a man of war sailor threw of his jacket ascended the pole and carried of the prize [.] this in a manner which would make any person laugh [.] by means of his hand he scraped of the grease and conferred it [on] his trousers...." The prize was $2.00 and a leg of mutton.\n\nHaligonians either participated in or observed a wide array of summer and winter sports offered locally: baseball, quoits, football, tennis, cricket, archery, boxing, swimming, rowing, sailing, yacht racing, horse racing, polo, fishing, hunting, skating, hockey, curling, coasting and snowshoeing – to enumerate only the more obvious. Although most present-day sports were introduced in the first half of the nineteenth century – often by the British forces stationed here – wage-earners worked long hours and had few holidays; only a small proportion of the population was able to participate. At the time of Confederation, sporting events were informal and games were played between amateurs. However, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, many athletic clubs were formed locally, and sporting events came to be organized in a more professional manner.\n\nRegardless of the season, sporting activities in Halifax have traditionally focused on the water, a fact observed by The Official Bicentenary Guide Book 1949: "The City has a great tradition in the field of sport. But it was in the aquatic centre of North America that Halifax won international fame." The first harbour regatta was held under the auspices of Admiral Lake in 1826. Yachting, rowing, schooner racing and swimming all developed into highly competitive activities. Skating was especially popular as a winter sport for everyone, favourite locations being Chocolate Lake, the North West Arm, the Dartmouth Lakes, and Bedford Basin when sufficiently cold enough to be safe. Curling was also played on ponds near Tower Road and on the Dartmouth Lakes
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any sports that are actually sports...baseball, basketball, softball, golf, football(soccer), NFL/NCAA football
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b british on July 9, 1749
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Two sports that were popular during the 1700's and early 1800's were horse racing and boxing. During the years of slavery, African-Americans were often chosen as jockeys for horse races. Since they had already been entrusted with the care and training of the horses, they knew the animals better than anyone. In the years after the Civil War, Oliver Lewis became the first African-American jockey to win the Kentucky Derby.
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Baseball,Football,basketball
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To play: volleyball and tennis (tie)\nTo watch: baseball
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tennis, badminton, volleyball, netball,paddle,beach volleyball
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the early 19th century
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tennis, basketball any kind of sports
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1 Basketball\n2 Badminton\n3 Table tennis\n4 Volley Ball\n5 Not sure - maybe football
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Races, contests of strength and agility, wrestling, and other games were played.\n\nI would like to invite you to travel along the shores of history. The journey will start today with one of the oldest boardgames, Senet, which was played in ancient Egypt in the time of Pharaohs.\n\nmancala\nhttp://nabataea.net/games3.html
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basketball\nand tennis!\n\nWhat's yours?
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The national game : Hockey, \nThe popular game : Cricket
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Not sure which championship you are looking for or which of the several papers in the area would help....so here is a couple links to baseball championships for that era and a full listing of newspapers in the area.\n\nGood Luck
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In medieval England there used to be a chaotic game which football is based on - all the yokels would kick a sheep's bladder around the place from one end of the village to the other. \n\nHowever, other countries developed their own game involving kicking a ball so it's hard to say where it definitively started.
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Indianapolis Olympians visited the Rochester Royals Jan 6, 1951.\n\nGame went into six overtimes and lasted 78 minutes on the game clock, and about four hours in real time.\n\nIndianapolis won 75-73.
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It was developed in England in the 19th Century. A great overview of the game, complete with links to sources you can cite, is at Wikipedia.