Bobbie Rosenfeld
Canada’s most famous female all-around athlete in the 1920s was Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld. Baseball, basketball, fastball, golf, hockey,lacrosse, softball, speed skating, tennis, and track and field were some of the sports that Bobbie played and she mastered all of them (“Bobbie Rosenfeld: One of the Greatest All-Around Athletes”). The first event that put Rosenfeld in the spotlight was the 100-metre sprint that she ran, for fun, in a small track and field meet in 1923. During the meet she came first in the race, beating Rosa Grosse, the leading Canadian champion. She beat her again at another meet and made the world record for that event. In the same year she was Toronto’s tennis champion (Rosenberg). Bobbie Rosenfeld continued her career by participating in a provincial track and field competition in 1925. She placed first in discus, shot put, 220-metre dash, low hurdles and long jump. In the 100-metre dash and javelin she came second (Library and Archives Canada). By that time she was the Canadian record holder for the 440-metre relay, standing board jump, discus, javelin and shot put. Rosenfeld’s greatest achievements were in, the first Olympics that allowed women to participate in track and field events, Amsterdam in 1928. She was a member of the Matchless Six, the Canadian women’s track and field team. This team did an outstanding job in the 400-metre relay; as a result they placed first and broke the previous record, becoming national heroes. In addition to the relay Bobbie won the silver medal in the 100-metre dash. The most memorable was the 800-metre race, one that Bobbie had not trained for. During the race she could have finished in third place, however she let her teammate finish before her and as a re...
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...is given to a female athlete every year since 1978. Rosenfeld was not only acknowledged in Canada but also in Israel where she was introduced into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1981. Six years later she was titled one of the most important sports figures in Canadian history by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. The Bobbie Rosenfeld Park is located in downtown Toronto, between the CN Tower and the Sky Dome. The park was built in 1991 (Rosenberg). In 1996 a stamp from Canada Post honoured the greatest all-round athlete of Canada. Lastly Rosenfeld was named a Woman of Valour for 2000 by the Jewish Women’s Archive in the United States (Library and Archives Canada). The all-round athlete, coach, sports administrator, official and journalist (Rosenberg) has significantly contributed to Canada and as a result the world has commemorated her.
Ida Minerva Tarbell was born in Erie, Pennsylvania on November 5, 1857 (Lowrie). She was the daughter of Esther and Franklin Tarbell (Lowrie). At the age of three, Ida was moved to Titusville, Pennsylvania with her family (Lowrie). Tarbell's mother took a teaching job and her father became an oil producer and refiner in their new town (Lowrie). As King wrote, “her father's business, along with those of many other small businessmen, was adversely affected by the South Improvement Company scheme between the railroads and larger oil interests.” Tarbell stayed in Titusville and finished high school there (Lowrie). She then studied at Allegheny College in 1876, where she graduated in 1880, the only woman in her class (Lowrie).
Saul Indian Horse is an Ojibway child who grew up in a land which offered little contact with anyone belonging to a different kind of society until he was forced to attend a residential school in which children were being stripped away of their culture with the scope of assimilating them into a more “civilized” community. Saul’s childhood in the school, greatly pervaded by psychological abuse and emotional oppression, was positively upset once one of the priests, Father Leboutillier, introduced him to the world of hockey, which soon become his sole means of inclusion and identification, mental well-being and acknowledged self-worth in his life. It is though universally acknowledged how, for every medal, there are always two inevitably opposite
Imagine a time where there is a ''Man's job'' and a ''Women's job'', well that's how it was for Phyllis Lose, the first female equine veterinarian, in 1957. (First) Though she faced many difficulties entering this field she didn't give up and that's what allowed her to reach her goals. Phyllis Lose's work is inspirational because she changed the world of veterinary medicine, empowered girls to enter a ''man's field'' of work, and showed great strength by not giving up in order to reach her goals.
Morrow, D., Keyes, M., Simpson,W., Cosentino, F., & Lappage, R. (1989). A Concise History of Sport In Canada. Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press.
...also built after him as a part of the Canadian Olympic School Program, where Lewis’ career is displayed for everyone to be informed.
The defining moment of the importance of hockey in Canada was “The Goal of the Century” in 1972. It was the evening of September 28th; the site was Moscow – U.S.S.R. In the midst of the Cold War, a game-winning goal by Canadian hockey player Paul Henderson at the end of the third period with only 34 seconds left on the clock vaulted Canada to a victory at the Summit Series and put them on top of the hockey world. The heart and character of Canadian hockey internationally began. “The exact moment of that spectacular goal has become a reference point in our national collective consciousness.”- R. Eagleson (Foreword). It was the climatic goal watched by almost every Canadian, and their pride swelled to amazing heights. Hockey is more than just a game in Canada, it is a celebrated history. Hockey is Canada’s identity. “Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inho...
Kindersly, Dorling. The Olympic Games: Athens 1896-Sydney 2000 Chronicle of the Games, 1 July 2000
Tidye Pickett was born on November 3, 1914, in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in the neighborhood of Englewood. At a young age, a city official discovered her and began to teach her how to run and jump. She competed for the Chicago Park District track team. Later John Brooks, a fellow Olympian, asked her parent’s permission to coach her for the Olympics, which he did in 1932 through the 1936 games. Between 1931 and 1936 she won and received medals around the country and Canada. Tidye Pickett was the first female African-American to represent the United States at the 1936 Olympic Games. She competed in the quarterfinals on the low hurdles track and field. At the age of 17, she had overcome two things: race and gender. After being athletic, she
Print. The. Jane Laing, ed., pp. 113-117. Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-1996. New York: DK Pub., 1996.
When I think of what it means to be Canadian, one of the first things that come to mind is hockey. This is true for many Canadian’s as hockey was and is an integral piece of the formation of the national identity. However, when people think of playing hockey their attention usually turns to the men in the National Hockey League or other top men’s leagues and tournaments. Even so, Canada has come a long way from its beginnings, when women were not even considered persons under the law until 1929. While it has taken many decades for women to receive more recognition in the world of sport, today shows great improvements from the past. A key reason that women are not treated the same way as men in regards to hockey is due to how the game began;
Track and field begined in 776.b.c when a cook named koroibos who was from Elis won a race that was ran over 600ft in distance (ezinearticles.com/History-of-Track-and-Field.) The distance of the event was set at 42.195 km; the marathon was introduced at these games to commerate the run of pheidippides, who ran from marathon to Sparta to get help and deliver the news to the Persians when they landed and the distance that happened was 149 miles. The incorporating events such as the 3-foot races were diaulos, and station as well as the pentathion events as well: long jump discus, wrestling, boxing, hopitodromos and panktraton. The sport of track and field began for the United States during the 1860’s. The athletic group of the country (the intercollegiate association of amateur athletes in America) HD the first competition in 1873). In the year of 1876 the United States held there first annual national championship. England established the amateur athletic association in 1880 and they are still governing the body for track and field for their country. America found there own amateur athletic union that was founded by rower and runner William b. Curtis founded in January 30, 1878 in New York City. The name was formally adopted in 1887. The AAU governed the sport until 1979, when the very first amateur sports act decreased because they sa...
Everyone today knows Nadia Comaneci as the first female gymnast to earn a perfect score at the 1976 Olympics games in Montreal, Canada, but that was just one of her many unique accomplishments. Throughout her gymnastics career she claimed 16 gold medals and went to the Olympics two times, got first in 1976, and won second in 1980.
November 25th, 1892 marked the Athletic Sports Union’s fiftieth anniversary. On this date, at a French theatre in the town of Sorbonne, Pierre de Coubertin proposed the idea of bringing the Olympic games back. On June 16th, 1894, 2 years later in the same town, it was decided that they would announce the Olympics’ return. Finally, 2 years later in 1896, the first Modern Olympics was held. One of the reasons Pierre de Coubertin wanted to bring the games back as because of the legacy that the games hold (Callebat, 1).
Wels, Susan. The Olympic Spirit: 100 Years of the Games. Del Mar: Tehabi Books, 1995. Print.
Silver, Michael, and Natalie Coughlin. Golden Girl: How Natalie Coughlin Fought Back, Challenged Conventional Wisdom, and Became America's Olympic Champion. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006. Print.