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Colonial Period
Colonies coming from Europe to settle in the New World. Native American celebrations and engaged in as forms of relaxation. Physical prowess, cunning, coordination, skill, speed, and endurance werer valued. Baggataway (Lacrosse),Shinny (Field Hockey), and Footraces,Swimming, canoeing, archery, and others were implemented o prove physical strength and warrior-like abilities. -
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Johann Bernhard Basedow
A German educational reformer who was the ifrst to recognize the benefits of Physical Activity. -
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National Period
The interest in education grew, and more schools were establish for both females and males. The growth of females seminaries (private schools) increased educational opportunities for women. -
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Catherine Beecher
The director of the Hartford Female Seminary in Connecticut, an institution of higher education for young women. -
Charles Beck
Beck introduced Jahn's gymnastic program of exercise and apparatus to his students at the Round Hill School in Northhampton, Massachusetts. -
Charles Follen
Follen organized exercise classes, based on the German system, for students at Harvard University. -
Intercollegiate Athletics
The first intercollegiate competition occurred. A crew race between Harvard and Yale held, with Harvard winning the race. Intercollegiate athletics would begin to assume an increasingly prominent role on college campuses. -
Normal Institute
Dioclesian Lewis established the Normal Institute for Physical Education in Boston to prepare teachers. -
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Charles McCloy
"education of the physical" espousing the belief that school physical education's unique contribution to the education of the individual is organic and psychomotor development. -
Civil War Period
Most outstanding leaders with new ideas influenced the development of physical education and sport during the Civil War period. -
Clark Hertherington
His philosophy of physical education was influenced by Wood's beliefs and his "natural gymnastics" approach. He articulated the four objectives of physical education as organic development (fitness), psychomotor development (skill), character development (social), and intellectual development (mental). -
Teachers College of Columbia University and New York University
The first doctoral degrees in physical education, and other programs began to develop around the country as well. -
"The Principles of Physical Education"
Jessie F. Williams emphasized his beliefs about unity of mind and body. -
JUCO
Junior Colleges of California met for the purpose of forming the National Junior College Athletic Association. Intramural athletics continued to grow in colleges and universities. -
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Mid-Twentieth Century
Physical education and sport programs grew. Selective Service examinations of drafted men indicated that they were not in sound condition. -
NATA
The National Athletic Trainers' Association was founded. -
"Journal of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
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ACSM
a group of 11 psychian's the Federation of Sports Medicine, which later became the American College of Sport Medicine. -
NCISC
the intramaural movement at the collegiate level was supported by the National Conference on Intramural Sports for College Men and Women. -
PEPI
The Physical Education Public Information Project was begun to inform the value of physical education.