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Joe Perry, football star of the 1950s and first African American MVP, dies at 84

Joe Perry, 84, one of the first African American stars of professional football, whose superb running for the San Francisco 49ers in the 1950s led him to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, died April 25...

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Doug Atkins was a University of tennesse stand out in the 1950's. His number would later get retired at UT.

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Doug atkins was a university of tennessee great. He is also from nearby Humboldt, Tennessee

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This is a source stating the conflict of the baseball team the Chicago White socks. This was a huge deal especially in this time. This was the first conflict in sports really known. The socks was throwing the series to win bets. this is the beginning of a lot of controversy.

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Lou was known as a base hitter. He had the highest batting average in his era at .340

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Lou Gehrig is said to be one of the best baseball players of his time.

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Florida football fans watch Gators beat Jacksonville's Riverside Athletic Club. UF won 4-0. In 1908 both TD's and FG's scored 4 points

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The history of college football from the first game played between Rutgers and Princeton through its current day evolution

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This was the earliest photo of a collegiate football team. football was alot more dangerous then than it is now. many players played with only leather helmets to protect them.

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Having played their first season in 1891, the Vols have amassed a successful tradition for well over a century, with their combined record of 804-361-53 ranking them tenth on the list of all-time won-lost records and eighth on the by victories list for college football programs as well as second on the all-time win/loss list of SEC programs.

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Abraham Lincoln the Athlete

Abraham Lincoln was a very competitive man. even as a young child he would always turn something into a competition.

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Baseball Almanac presents Civil War Baseball: Baseball and the Blue and the Gray, an original baseball article written by researcher Michael Aubrecht.

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Alexander Cartwright

he was one of the important people at this time to come up with the rules to baseball. he was a very intelligent man. without him we might not have developed the game as fast. It might not be as developed as much as it is in todays society without Cartwright. alexander was pretty much the master mind of baseball. he was the man that made the official first rules to the game. he was the man that started as people call the record book. this way people actually had something to strive for. in the up coming season or games they was going to play.

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Baseball

Americans began playing baseball on informal teams, using local rules, in the early 1800s. By the 1860s, the sport, began to get popular, was being described as America’s “national pastime.” The first recorded baseball game was held in 1846 when Alexander Cartwright’s. In 1858, the National Association of Base Ball Players, the first organized baseball league was formed.

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this is a primary  document from sports in the 1800s. most of these sports are taking place in Pennsylvania. it is a document of the Penn organization and how they developed sports and how things started to develop more and more

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http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Spring08/pop.cfm

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Abroad, horse and foot races were sports of choice for improving a person's leisure hours. Indoors, a game of cards or billiards, seen here in an eighteenth-century English print by Henry Bunbury, prompted friendly competition at the local tavern.

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How the people of Philadelphia help make baseball an american pass time.