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Sports affected and changed society in different ways. Sports became a form of entertainment to the common people. It also provided a platform of people to come together and support their country or favorite team. Technology also improved by inventing ways to broadcast or transmit the local game to fans at home. Sponsorships also became known as certain sports gained more popularity. Sponsorships allowed other companies and athletes to come together and develop fame from society. Not only did it affect the culture, but the economy as well. Tickets were bought to sport games by local fans. Merchandise eventually was introduced and the demand increased. This helped the economy grow with the money spent or invested in sports. Sports have influenced athletes and fans across the nation for more than 90 years and still continues to society today. Overall sports affected society in different ways.

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Sports were introduced differently and rose in popularity in the roaring-twenties. A sport is a physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Social life became more entertaining and competitive in the 20s. Their was now a purpose to becoming a professional athlete. Athletes were paid and made famous by sport fans just by performing well. Babe Ruth made the sport of Baseball exponentially more popular because people were awed by his performance. Another example of an athlete who changed the way a sport was played, was Knuke Rockney for his great understanding as a football coach/player for the college of Notre Dame. These athletes and many more, helped with the growth and popularity of their sport they participated in. As professional sports grew, so did the Olympics Games, which started way before the 20s. This era of athletes in the US also increased the popularity or sports in other countries. More and more nations joined the Olympics Games because of competitive attitude and general influence by the US. Overall, sports impacted society in the 1920s.

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penchant: a strong liking for something or tendency
accommodate: fit in with the wishes or needs of.
retroactively: with effect from a date in the past.
atrocities: an extremely cruel act.
straight-laced: excessively strict in manners, morals, or opinion.
menacing: suggesting the presence of danger.
sire: be the father of.
antics: foolish, outrageous, or amusing behavior.
infancy: the state  of early childhood.
steroids: compound that includes many hormones, alkaloids, and vitamins.

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This is Babe Ruth's farewell speech to baseball. This speech marks the end of one of the greatest eras in the sport of baseball. His career spanned 22 seasons. Babe describes how important baseball was to him and how he thinks baseball is the only true sport. He also talks about the importance of getting a kid started in baseball. Babe Ruth created several records, including the most home runs in a season. I would think this was an emotional time for baseball fans at the time.

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The great Babe Ruth says goodbye to baseball. You can get a 22k gold Babe Ruth baseball card at www.free-stuff.freecp.net/babe

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"It ain't so, Joe, is it?" This famous quote is from the Black Sox Scandal. In 1920, eight players from the Chicago White Sox admitted to taking bribes to let the Cincinnati Reds win the World Series. Joe Jackson, also known as "Shoe-less" Joe Jackson, one of the eight, admitted that he helped throw the series to the Reds. After leaving the courthouse, he was approached by a young fan and said to him, "It ain't so, Joe, is it?" This quote became famous from reporters at the time. I thought this quote was interesting because at the time, the idea of bribes in sports was never a thing until the Black Sox Scandal.

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This is a photograph from the 1920s Olympic Games. You are looking at the US Rugby team. Rugby wasn't a popular sport back then so many nations didn't have a team. Only two nations entered the rugby union event, France and the United States. France was the favorite, but the US surprised everyone and beat France 8-0. The US Rugby team went on to receive a gold medal. I thought this photograph represented sports in the 1920s because in the US, sports were popular unlike other countries.

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This website relates to sports globally by demonstrating how sports have changed and shared similarities from the 1920s until now. For example, it states that the most popular sports were broadcasted and sponsored similar to many sports in the world that are getting sponsorships and that are aired on TV and other forms of live broadcasting. The website also explains how many athletes created history for sports across the world. Athletes are remembered today from the time and athletes are still becoming famous from their skill today.

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Fashion Compared to Today: Fashion in the 1920's really impacted fashion today. The fashion dramatically changed from what men and women wore before, and it still has changed throughout the years....

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This website emphasizes on the historical changes in the 1920s relating to sports. When I read what's on this website, I had no idea what the events were talking about. I wasn't familiar with the information and I've read more than three websites. If you want to learn about events relating to sports in the 1920s that no one knows about, then click this website. Topics about the 1925 Polo Grounds, Red Grange, The four horseman, and other random important facts and events in the 1920s. I didn't really enjoy reading this website because this knowledge is nice to know, but will never need it for anything. For me, its was  a waste of time and boring to read about random events that somehow affected sports in the 1920s.

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This website gives an overview on the significance of sports back in the 1920s. It includes not only professional sports, but also college sports as well. This website also gives facts about the champions of each sport at the time for each year from 1920-1929. This website goes into depth with the events revolving around College sports. It includes the dates when specific college stadiums were built and when the first broadcasted football game was. This website provides interesting information and facts about the upcoming events in the 1920s. I enjoyed reading about the teams who won most during the 1920s. For example, California University won Titles in college football. Also, the New York Yankees and the Giants, won 5 Pro baseball Titles in the 1920s.

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In the 1920s, sports had become more important to the fabric of society than ever before. Many things contributed to this rise in popularity, but none more so than modern radio. With radio, fans were listening to games in near real-time and could cheer on their team from work, home or any other place that had a radio.

In 1921, a game featuring Texas A&M and the University of Texas became the first college football game to offer a live, play-by-play broadcast. Sports had become a social event outside of the stadium. It is impossible to understate radio's importance to the growth of spectator sport.

Fortunately for broadcasters, there were plenty of larger-than-life characters to talk about. Every sport had a superstar, but none shone brighter than Babe Ruth.

His absolutely dominating play on the field, combined with his penchant for living life on the edge, gave everyone at home something to talk about. And Babe laughed all the way to the bank, making more money than any athlete before him.

Stars like Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Mickey Cochrane (Mickey Mantle's namesake), Jimmy Foxx, Rogers Hornsby and many more were bringing fans to the turnstiles in record numbers. Stadiums across the country were renovated and expanded to accommodate the increased demand for sports.

But baseball wasn't the only sport to demand larger stadiums. In fact, the most massive, iconic stadiums in the United States were built in the 1920s for college football.

College (American) football was infinitely more popular than professional football. Michigan Stadium was built in 1927 for a cool $950,000 with an original capacity of 72,000. Ohio Stadium was completed in 1922, costing $1.49 million, with an original capacity of 66,210. At the time of completion, Ohio Stadium was the largest poured concrete structure on Earth. Kyle Field (the stadium), Neyland Stadium and Tiger Stadium were all built in the 1920s.

Individual sports were a big draw as well. Bobby Jones (golf) and Jack Dempsey (boxing) had become household names. The Summer Olympics were held in 1920 for the first time since 1912 because World War I had cancelled them in 1916. The worldwide competition was held three times in the 1920s: 1920 (Belgium), 1924 (France) and 1928 (Netherlands).

1920s Major Sports Champions
*Before the NIT and NCAA Tournaments, there was no official national champion in college basketball. In 1936, the Helms Athletic Foundation assembled a group of experts to choose a national champion for college basketball, retroactively, back to 1901. Those champions are used here.
**College football champions were named by several organizations. There were no undisputed champions during the 1920s.

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1920s Sports: History, Facts, MVPs & Champions

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In the 1920s, sports had become more important to the fabric of society than ever before. Many things contributed to this rise in popularity, but none more so than modern radio. With radio, fans were listening to games in near real-time and could cheer on their team from work, home or any other place that had a radio.

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This website gives a broad summary over the popular sport events that occurred in the 1920s. Acknowledging the great athletes that changed the way the sport was played, writing about tennis, golf, swimming, horse racing, boxing. football, and baseball. The website recognizes Knute Rockney for football, Jack Dempsey for boxing, Man o'War for horse racing, and many other sport legends. I enjoyed reading and learning about Babe Ruth and his impact on baseball even before television, steroids, free agency, and million dollar contracts. This website would benefit those who are unaware about revolutionary athletes and what they achieved for their sport. Overall, this website is very resourceful about the broad effects of sports on society at the time.

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The Roaring Twenties are famous for many things, one of the most often forgotten is 1920s sports.

"I have only one superstition, touch all the bases when I hit a home-run."

It was a new era of heroes and goats.

From the Black Sox scandal of 1919, the historic home runs records of Babe Ruth, player Red Grange and coach Knute Rockne's domination in football, Jack Dempsey's vicious knock-outs, and Man o'Wars brilliant races, the sports of the 1920s have become legendary to fans around the world. This was "The Golden Age" of sports in America.

Newspapers turned sports into an American pastime and gave relief to an American public searching for some relief after the atrocities of World War 1.

Sportswriters became the character delivering the news to a public that couldn't get enough.

Baseball "America's Pastime"

Babe Ruth owned 1920s sports. He was the hard drinking, hard swinging hero of the Yankees' "Murderer's Row".Along with Lou Gehrig, Ruth put together one of the most impressive baseball careers of all time.

And he did it in an era before television, steroids, free agency and million dollar contracts. This quote from W.O. McGeehan,

"Babe Ruth with his bat pounded baseball back into popularity [after the Black Sox scandal]. He swings with utmost sincerity. When he hits the ball it goes into wide-open spaces. When he misses, he misses with vehement sincerity."
"The Babe" embodied the spirit of 1920s sports, and The Roaring Twenties. In his day, he was revered as a hero in the streets of New York and played the perfect spoil tot he straight-laced nature of his New York Yankee teammate, Lou Gehrig.

1920s Sports':Football

Halfback Red Grange and Notre Dame coach Knute Rockney, led football bravely into a new era. College football was wildly popular, thanks in large part to many young men and women entering Universities in post-war America.

College football made money, profiting 21 million dollars for the Universities every year. Grange played for the University of Illinois and was known as "The Galloping Ghost" because of his uncanny ability not to be tackled. His elusiveness, size and power won him the honor of the "Greatest College Football Player of All Time" 80 years after he graduated from college.

Here's how Red Grange's running style was described:
A streak of fire, a breath of flame Eluding all who reach and clutch; A gray ghost thrown into the game That rival hands may never touch; A rubber bounding, blasting soul Whose destination is the goal.

1920s Sports':Boxing

The 1920s was owned by boxer Jack Dempsey. He, like Ruth, embodied the spirit of the Roaring Twenties with his bare-knuckled upbringing in Colorado and the way he would soak his face in brine to make his skin leathery and chew pine gum to strengthen his jaw.

Dempsey headlined the first million dollar gate at any sporting event in 1921, when he defended his World Title against George Carpentier. Dempsey was known for the amount of power in his menacing right hand, strengthened by the years he spent as a miner in Colorado.

1920s Sports':Horse Racing

Man o'War was the unquestioned king of the horses, winning races by an absurd margin of 100 lengths. In his career "Big Red" as he was known, won 20 of 21 races he started, losing only to a horse appropriately named "Upset".

He never won the Triple Crown because his owner felt he was too young to run a Mile and a quarter track. He spent 22 years at stud and sired his own Triple Crown winner, War Admiral.

Man o'War is widely regarded as the greatest racehorse in history.

1920s Sports':Tennis

Before John McEnroe graced the sport of tennis with his dramatic antics on the court, there was "Big" Bill Tilden of the 1920s. Known for his flair, his antics, the dramatic way he played the game. Bill Tilden was an actor on the court as much as he was a player.

He was so self-absorbed he even bankrolled plays, with him playing the lead character, of course. His matches were often dramatic because he played poorly to make them seem more exciting than they needed to be. He would often leave his sweater on for a few games, then take it off to make his fabulous comeback. Tilden was one of the forgotten characters of 1920s sports.

Helen Wills was one of the first female 1920s sports stars. She won her first title in 1923, when she was 17 years old.

She was the spoil to Tilden's expressive and dramatic nature, Wills was known as "Little Miss Poker Face" because of the business-like way she played the sport.

1920s Sports':Swimming

The 1920s was known for it's strange stunts like flagpole sitting, and barnstorming. When American, Gertrude Ederle swam across the English Channel in 1926, she not only became the first woman to do it, but her time of 14 hours and 31 minutes was nearly 2 hours faster than any man had ever completed the feat.

At the time, Ederle's feat was known as "the greatest sports story in the world."

1920s Sports': Golf

efore Tiger Woods, Arnold Palmer, and Jack Nicholas created their legends, there was Bobby Jones.

In the span of 8 years, Jones won 13 national championships, both in Europe and the United States. He was the original hot headed golfer, known to either play brilliantly, or to implode on the course. When playing poorly he even, at times, picked up his ball and quit.

Despite his temper Bobby Jones became an idol for the American public which loves his sense of style, his fearlessness in playing golf shots impossible to anyone less talented.

In the Golden Era, 1920s sports were still in their infancy. While still big businesses, sports had a sense of innocence that was starting to show its cracks, case in point, the Black Sox scandal of 1919. However the legends of 1920s sports remain legends today because of the way they played their respective games.

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1920s Sports: A Golden Age of Competition

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The Roaring Twenties are famous for many things, one of the most often forgotten is 1920s sports. "I have only one superstition, touch all the bases when I hit a home-run." It was a new era of heroes and goats.