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2/9/23 Chronology of Sports in America
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America Founded
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The first game of baseball played
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Football (Soccer) Introduction to the US
the first known soccer game in America was played in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 146 years ago"soccer is a game involving two teams of 11 players who try to maneuver the ball into the other team's goal without using their hands or arms. The team that scores more goals wins" -
Football Creation
Football was created by Walter Camp who is considered the father of football. Football takes elements from the games of soccer and rugby. ¨Football is a game that is played by two teams of eleven players using an oval-shaped ball. Players try to score points by passing or carrying the ball to their opponent's end of the field, or by kicking it over a bar fixed between two posts.¨-Collins Dictinaryith -
Hockey
ice hockey is a game between two teams who wear skates and compete on an ice rink. Each team usually has six players. The object is to propel the puck past a goal line and into a net guarded by a goaltender. -
MLB Creation
The MLB (Major League Baseball) was founded in 1876 in Cincinnati Ohio by a businessman named William Hulbert -
Basketball Invented
Basketball was invented in Canada Springfield Massachusetts by 30-year-old James Naismith with the game only having 13 original rules. -
First World Seires
Big Bill Dinneen leads Boston to a triumph in the first modern World Series. The first World Series ever played was a best-of-nine competition, and after seven games, it was Boston with four wins and Pittsburgh with three. -
NHL Created
the organization of professional ice hockey teams in North America, formed in 1917 by four Canadian teams, to which the first U.S. team, the Boston Bruins, was added in 1924. -
NFL Creation
The NFL was founded by a group of men that gathered together in Canton Ohio, with the first game being played on October 3rd of the same year. -
First FIFA World Cup
The first World Cup was played from July 13th to the 30th with Uruguay winning it all in the end. -
First ever NBA Championship
The first NBA finals were played following the 1946-47 season where the Philadelphia Warriors emerged victorious over the Chicago Stags. -
MLS (Major League Soccer)
The MLS started playing competitive soccer 2 years after the world cup was hosted in the united states. -
First Super Bowl Played
The first super bowl was played on this day with the Greenbay Packers Beating the Kansas city Cheifs 35-10 -
First World Cup In America
This is the first and only time the world cup has been held in the United States and it has the highest attendance out of any other world cup so far. With Brazil edged out the victory over Italy on penalties 3-2 -
WNBA Created
The WNBA was founded on April 24th, 1996 -
The NFLs 100th Seson
The celebration of the NFL’s 100th Season -
Argentina Wins The World Cup
The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ was played from 20 November to 18 December with Argentina and Messi winning the Wold Cup beating France and Kylian Mbappé 4-2 on penalties
