CLAIBORNE HIGH SPORTS
2011 - 2012
| BASEBALL | The salary for a profesional baseball player in the 1970's was around 25,000 dollars. Today it is around 3.1 million |
Founder of Baseball Alexander Cartwright |
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| BASKETBALL | The first basketball game was held on January 20, 1892. The court was half the size of courts used today in the NBA, and only one point was scored in the entire game. Only nine players on each team during this game |
Founder of Basketball James Naismith |
| CHEERLEADING | Cheerleading is over 100 years old. Founded in 1898. In the beginning all cheerleaders were men. |
Founder of Cheerleading Johnny Campbell |
| DANCE | Song-dances once had a place in nearly every culture and social milieu. There is probably not an aspect to human life with which they have not been connected |
Founder of Dance 13th Century English |
| FOOTBALL | Derived from English game of Rugby Started in 1879 |
Founder of Football Rules institued by Walker Camp |
| GOLF | Golf originated from a game played on the eastern coast of Scotland. Players would hit a pebble around a natural course of sand dunes using a stick or a primitve club |
Founder of Golf King of Fife in Scotland during 15th century |
| TENNIS | Tennis originated from 12th century French game called paume (meaning palm); it was a court game where the ball was struck with the hand. |
Founder of Tennis Major Walter Wingfield |
| SOFTBALL | Softball originated in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day in 1887. First Softball was made from an old boxing glove. |
Founder George Hancock |
| VOLLEYBALL | Volley originated in the U.S. in 1895. It was originally called mintonette. An instructor at the YMCA in Mass., decided to blend elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball. |
Founder William G. Morgan |