Sport & Entertainment Final Review

Popular entertainment in the 19th century usually performed by white actors in blackface.

Thomas "Daddy" Rice created this minstrel show character

You would have had to have used one of these to watch an early Edison film

This ensured that African Americans were excluded from professional baseball

The greatest star of the silent era

The father of American Football

Cultural activities aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.

The first team to play using the modern rule for baseball

The first professional baseball team

He was the first basketball player to have a shoe endorsement

The movie many film critics claim is the greatest film ever made

Legislation that gave women equal opportunities in sports

Professional baseball league created in 1876

Showman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes

The first dynasty in women's college basketball

His greatest contribution to the development of football was the single wing formation

Sport involving the shedding of blood, especially the hunting or killing of animals.

The first sound motion picture

Americas Sweetheart of the silent movies

The city where the NFL was founded

James Naismith invented what game

American inventor that created motion pictures

The player that broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball

The mythical inventor of baseball

The first basketball tournament to name a national champion

Greatest athlete of the first half of the twentieth century, won 2 gold medals, football star

The first major league team Babe Ruth played for

His studios first big hit was "Steamboat Willie"

She establish the rules for early women's basketball

The birthplace of basketball