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1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics takes place in Antwerp The 1916 Summer Olympics planned for Berlin having been cancelled due to World War I , the 1920 Games are awarded to Antwerp to "honour the suffering of the Belgian people"
Dance clubs became enormously popular in the 1920s. Their popularity peaked in the late 1920s and reached into the early 1930s. Dance music came to dominate all forms of popular music by the late 1920s. Classical pieces, operettas, folk music, etc., were all transformed into popular dancing melodies to satiate the public craze for dancing.
The physical activity that developed into sports had early links with warfare and entertainment. [ 1 ] Study of the history of sport can teach lessons about social changes and about the nature of sport itself, as sport seems involved in the development of basic human skills (compare play ).
Pages in category "1920s in sports" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Boxing in the 1920s; F.
The sport continued to thrive with iconic players like Cal Ripken Jr., known for his consecutive games streak. The NFL solidified its position as America's most popular sport with stars like Jerry Rice. The league's expansion and the introduction of new teams contributed to its growing popularity.
Multi-sport American athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias was breaking boundaries in sports in the early 1900s. She was voted the Greatest Female Athlete of the first half of the 20th century by the ...
Ralph Proctor was a star football lineman at Leon High in the early 1920s, owned Proctor Oil Company, helped found the Tallahassee Bank, served one term (1943-1946) as a city commissioner and was ...
1920s in sports (55 C, 2 P) 1930s in sports (54 C, 2 P) ... Pages in category "20th century in sports" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.