History of Sport

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Across
  1. 4. local council provision of facilities (sport and recreational) for the masses to participate in
  2. 7. the founder of the Wenlock Olympian Games in 1850
  3. 9. – large numbers of people migrating/moving from rural areas into towns and cities, seeking regular work in the factories
  4. 11. an organised means of communication by which large numbers of different people can be reached quickly
  5. 13. – kind, generous middle class individuals who had a social conscience and were keen to try to provide for a better life among the working class
  6. 14. – a form of competitive running/walking in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries involving feats of endurance. As time progressed, it evolved into pedestrianism/race walking
  7. 16. Online apps and websites which allow users to interact by sharing content and taking part in social networking
  8. 19. The Golden Triangle refers to the relationship between sport, business and media
  9. 20. involves the post-industrial development of sport. It was characterised by a number of features including respectability, regularity, strict administration and codification
  10. 21. When professional tennis players were allowed to compete alongside amateurs and professionals
  11. 22. – a member of the gentry who looked after a lower-class performer e.g. by arranging competitions for them to participate in, putting up prize money and generally looking after the welfare of the performer
  12. 23. deemed to have occurred during the mid eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. This period marked a change in Britain from a feudal, rural society into an industrialised, machine based, capitalist society, controlled by a powerful urban middle class
Down
  1. 1. – factory teams were set up by factory owners as a way of decreasing absenteeism and encouraging loyalty in the workforce
  2. 2. Originally called ‘Sphairistike,’ and played on an hourglass shaped court before its name and court shape were quickly replaced
  3. 3. When a company pays for their products to be publicly displayed or advertised, usually as an attempt to increase the sales of their goods
  4. 5. – the gradual organisation and defining of rules (e.g. For the actual playing of a sport, as well as the conduct and behaviour of participants
  5. 6. – broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around a relationship derived from the holding
  6. 8. The process of attempting to gain money from an activity e.g. Sport
  7. 10. – The sport and pastimes of people in pre-industrial Britain
  8. 12. a person who plays sport for the financial gain
  9. 15. the process whereby nations are increasingly being linked together and people are becoming more interdependent via improvements in communication and travel
  10. 17. a person who plays sport for the love of it and receives no financial gain
  11. 18. The practice in which the brand or image from one ‘product,’ is used to sell another, e.g. professional sports teams/performers promote various products