Powerpoint presentation I created about sports during the 1920s and the impact that the Great Depression eventually had on them.

1. Sports in the 1920s
and how they were affected by the Depression
By: Cole Campi

2. Sports in the 1920s
• NFL
• NNL
• Babe Ruth
• Jack Dempsey
• Caroline Gertrude Ederle
• Notre Dame football
• 1924 Winter Olympics
• 1294 Summer Olympics

3. 1920
The National Football League (NFL)
formed
•The NFL was formed on August 20, 1920 as the American Professional
Football Conference.
•It was founded at Ralph Hay's Hupmobile dealership in downtown Canton,
Ohio.
•Changed its name to the National Football League on June 24, 1922.
•First Super Bowl wasn’t until they merged with the American Football
League (AFL) in 1967.
•League's first president was Jim Thorpe.

4. NFL Teams
• Some of the first teams were called the Buffalo AllAmericans, Chicago Tigers, Columbus Panhandles,
and Detroit Heralds.
• Only two of the franchises still exist today.
• The Decatur Staleys moved to Chicago in 1921 and
were renamed the Bears one year later.
• The Chicago Cardinals franchise is now the Arizona
Franchise.

5. NFL continued…
• A major problem with the 1920's NFL was that
most teams played in small cities and lost money.
• While most small-city teams faced big money
problems, some, like the Canton Bulldogs, were
winners on the field.
• The Bulldogs won back-to-back NFL titles in 1922
and 1923.

7. 1920
The National Negro League formed
• The first successful organized Negro League in baseball
was established February 14th in 1920.
• It was formed at an YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri.
• Andrew "Rube" Foster was the driving force behind the
organization of this league and served as its first
president.
• As a result of his leadership role in the early years of the
leagues, Foster is known as "the father of Black baseball."
• It consisted of teams in the South and the Midwest.

8. NNL continued…
• Three years after the founding of the NNL, the Eastern
Colored League was formed on December 16, 1923.
• Edward H. Bolden served as the chairman of the league.
• In 1924, the very first Negro World Series was played
between the ECL and the NNL champions.
• The ECL collapsed in the spring of 1928 but the member
teams reemerged in 1929 as the American Negro League.
• The depression years were especially difficult times for
black baseball.
• The NNL operated successfully until 1931, when the
league could no longer survive in our country’s economy.

9. Babe Ruth
• 1919 - The New York Yankees sign Babe Ruth.
• 1920 - Babe hits a record fifty-four home runs in one
season.
• 1926 - In one World Series game, Babe hits a record
three home runs.
• 1927 - Babe hits sixty home runs in one season.
• 1933 -As America sank into the Great
Depression, Ruth's muscle turned to fat and his
legendary power began to fade

10. • Fun Fact: The Baby Ruth candy bar
is actually named after Babe Ruth.

11. Caroline Gertrude Ederle
• Caroline Gertrude Ederle was an American swimmer
born in in New York City.
• She was the first woman to swim across the English
Channel.
• She began swimming as a young child and started
competing as a teenager.
• From 1921 to 1925 she broke many American and
world swimming records.
• At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, France, Ederle won a
gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle relay and bronze
medals in the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyle
races.
• She was the first woman to swim across the English
Channel.

12. 1920
Notre Dame football
• Notre Dame College football becomes most popular team in
the country.
• Knute Rockne became head coach in 1918.
• With Rockne as head coach the Irish had a record of 105
wins, 12 losses, and five ties.
• During his 13 years the Irish won:
• three national championships,
• had five undefeated seasons,
• won the Rose Bowl in 1925

13. 1924
Winter Olympics
• The first Winter Olympics began in 1924, on January 25th.
• The Winter Olympics first took place in in Chamonix,
France.
• A total of 16 nations sent athletes, totalling 258 (247 men
and 11 women).
• The Games were actually called "The International Winter
Sports Week" and went on for 11 days.
• The number of events that took place was 16.

14. 1924 Winter Olympics Events
• 4-man bobsled
• Biathlon
• Curling
• Figure skating (men's, women's, pairs)
• Hockey
• Cross country Skiing (18k, 50k)
• Ski jumping
• Nordic combined skiing
• Speed skating (500m, 1500m, 5000m, 10,000m, combined)

16. 1924
Summer Olympics
• The number of participating National Olympic Committees jumped from 29 to
44, signalling the advent of the Olympic Games as a major event with
widespread appeal.
• These Games introduced the Closing Ceremony ritual as we know it today. This
involves the raising of three flags: the flag of the International Olympic
Committee, the flag of the host nation and the flag of the next host nation.
• Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi won five gold medals to add to the three he had
won in 1920.
•
His most spectacular performance occurred on 10 July. First, he easily won the
1500m and then, a mere 55 minutes later, he returned to the track to win the
5,000m.
• http://www.olympic.org/videos/paris-1924

17. 1924 Summer Games continued…
• American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller won two golds.
He got two more golds at the 1928 Games and went on to
become famous playing Tarzan of the Apes in 12 movies.
• There were:
• 44 Countries
• 3,089 Athletes (135 women, 2,954 men)
• 126 Events
• 1,000 journalists for the media

18. 1924 Summer Olympics continued…
Paavo Nurmi
• Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi won five gold medals to add to
the three he had won in 1920.
• His most spectacular performance occurred on 10 July.
• First, he easily won the 1500m and then, a mere 55 minutes
later, he returned to the track to win the 5,000m.
• Watch Paavo Nurmi’s Golden Olympic History here:
http://www.olympic.org/videos/paris-1924

20. 1927
Golf’s Ryder Cup
• The 1st Ryder Cup Matches were
held at the Worcester Country Club
In Worcester, Massachusettes.
• The very first competition was
dominated by the United States who
won by the then landside score of
9½–2½ points.
• USA Captain Walter Hagen became
the first winning captain to lift the
Ryder Cup.

21. Overview
Sports were a rapidly developing phenomenon that still are to
this day. Baseball is viewed as “America’s Past time” due to its
immense popularity. The growth of sports was rapidly expanding
in the early 1900s up until the Depression hit. The Depression
had a very negative impact on sports and athletes throughout
America, but it allowed us to understand how much we like them
and how much they can continue to grow. Sports in the 1920s
were impacted by 1929, but they continued to develop after
World War II.