American and English College Sports Fired the rebirth of the Olympic Games

The history and development of sport as we know it today as a phenomenon of mass appeal of 18 century before in England, it spread throughout Europe and America began. The first sporting code developed mass appeal was therefore affect thousands of football. It 'was in England at the end of 1800, that the waves of sport shot up in people's consciousness - was founded in literally thousands of football clubs by church organizations, trade unions,Factories and railway workshops.

Rugby, football began in England in the late 1800th Rugby was played mainly by students. The biggest British player, plush private schools rugby, Oxford and Cambridge, also played. As an elite sport rugby started and was more complicated and harder than football, without having to play dirty. This has not been as popular as football, which attracted hundreds of thousands of people on his Cup final.

American Footballstarted in the universities was near Rugby, but in 1880, in what we now see how American Football is developed. It 's more violent towards Rugby. During the 1905 college football games produced 18 deaths and nearly 200 serious injuries - which is perhaps the stadium to watch college athletes attracted fans to maim each other. Baseball was less bloody, but it was so popular after the Civil War - that was the time when it was codifiedand it was a game for adults. In 1890, baseball players were organized and began to negotiate wages and transfers. E 'was also during this time, baseball has been exported to Cuba and Central America. Gamblers and producers of sport made good money from sports.

At that point, the source strictly American sport in 1891 at the YMCA in Springfield, born in Massachusetts, where a school teacher of basketball invented to make the gym boredomClasses. In a few years, played basketball all over the world and in American colleges and has been played by women.

It 'was an example of American English college sports and games, the Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin to revive the Olympic shot, the ancient Greeks. And the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens until 1896. And in these Olympic Games American athletes dominated and did very well, while continuingto dominate the Olympic Games today.