In 1932, the Hawkeye football team had two African-American letterwinners – end Voris Dickerson and back Wilbur “Windy” Wallace. The most infamous moment of that 1-7 season came when the Hawkeyes agreed to bench Dickerson and Wallace for a road game in DC against George Washington Universi...
multiple international players have made the roster of the best teams in the league. This trend is growing too, with more people from all over the world getting more interested in watching American football. The sport has been expanding thanks to international games, and while there aren’t cur...
During this period, hundreds of African American baseball players left the United States to participate in Latin American leagues. Inspired by their journeys, sportswriters used the ballplayers' transnational movement to explore sport and society in other parts of the Americas. From their ...
TV Movie|119 min|Documentary, Sport Edit pageAdd to list Track Documentary feature exploring the rise of African-Americans to positions of greatness in American sports. Stories are told of boxers, tennis players, runners, and basketball players, athletes who either suffered the indignities of racism...
Black Jacks: African-American Seamen in the Age of Sail Interestingly, many baseball players --both black and white--came to the defense of Campanis with numerous examples of how his support helped African-Americans succeed in this sport. The Jack Nicklaus syndrome More results ► Medical brow...
was the first African-American player to take part in the international sport of tennis at the highest level of the game. He was born on July 10, 1943. When Arthur was 6, his mother died. Arthur, with his father and his brother, lived near a large park in Richmond,Virginia. His ...
The Negro Leagues (African-American Achievers) James A. Riley Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, is steeped in lore. During the hot days and still nights of summer, at ballparks and in living rooms, its fans delight in seemingly endless debates about the past and the present: ha...
To investigate changes in the physical fitness characteristics of elite women's rugby union players over a competitive season. Methods. Thirty-two elite women's rugby union players, all members of the South African Rugby Union High Performance Squad, were subdivided into 2 positional categories of ...
The African American coach Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) and his assistant Bill Yoast (Will Patton), who is white, must work together to unite their racially divided team. As they battle prejudice and adversity both on and off the pitch, their struggles culminate in a high-stakes ...
Arthur Robert Ashe Jr.was an African-American tennis player.He was born on July 10th,1943.He(1)___the international sport of tennis at the highest level(最高水平) of the game. Arthur lived (2)___his father and his brother near a large park in Richmond,Virginia.His father was the ma...