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 1932
Winter Olympic Games The 3rd Winter
Olympics were held in Lake Placid, New York, from
February 4 through February 13, 1932. A total of
252 athletes from 17 nations competed in a total
of 14 events. |
 The
New
England Patriots were founded as the
eighth and final franchise of the American
Football League in 1969. Originally called the
Boston Patriots, the current name was adopted
soon after the AFL merged with the NFL. The
team's current all-time win-loss record is
426-369-9, and they have a total of 3 Super Bowl
wins (out of 7 appearances). |
 Brian
Anthony Boitano landed his first triple jump -- a triple
Salchow -- at the age of 11, and became the first U.S. skater ever to land a
triple Axel, at the 1982 U.S. Championships. |
 Hurdling
is a track and field race in which
runners jump over fencelike obstacles called hurdles.
Most races have 10 hurdles at equal intervals on
the track. When and how hurdling initially
developed is unknown, but it became a part of
Olympic competition in 1896. |
 1936
Summer Olympic Games The
11th Olympic Games were held in Berlin, Germany,
from August 1 to August 16, 1936. 3,963 athletes
(331 women, 3,632 men), from 49 nations,
participated in a total of 129 events. 1936 saw
the introduction of the torch relay, and were the
first Olympics to be broadcast on a form of
television. |
 Evonne
Goolagong racked up a
total of 285 victories, against just 72 losses,
and earned a total of 19 titles (including 7 in
Grand Slam events). She won the Australian Open
four times, Wimbledon twice, and the French Open
once, but lost four consecutive U.S. Open finals
(the only major tournament she never won). |
 Joseph William
Frazier won three straight Golden
Gloves championships and took the Heavyweight
Boxing Gold Medal at the 1964 Olympic Games
before turning professional in 1965. He held the WBA Heavyweight Title from
1971 to 1973, and ended his professional career
in 1981 with 32 wins (27 by KO), 4 losses (2 to
Muhammad Ali), and 1 draw. |
 Ivan Lendl
made it to a record 52 finals
matches, and won 94 singles titles (including 8
Gram Slam titles), second only to the 109 titles
won by Jimmy Connors. He won 44 matches in a row
between October 1981 and February 1982, the
second-longest streak in the open era. His total
of 270 weeks ranked Number 1 broke Jimmy Connors'
record. |
 Gertrude
Caroline Ederle learned to swim at
an early age, and broke the 800-yard freestyle
record at age 12. She went on to set a record for
swimming from Battery Park in Lower Manhattan to
Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and another for swimming
across the English Channel. |
 Alexander
Joy Cartwright, Jr. is considered
the "Father of Baseball" by the
National Baseball Hall of Fame. According to the
story, he was responsible for drafting the first
set of formal rules for the game in 1845, and for
spreading his love of the game across the country
and into Hawaii. |
| Pole
Vault is a track and
field event in which an athlete uses a pole to
propel his/her body over a crossbar set at a
certain height. The sport originated in Europe,
where men used the pole to cross canals filled
with water. |
 Mildred
Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
excelled in basketball, baseball and track before
turning her attention to golf. During
the 1946-1947 season, she won seventeen straight
tournaments, a record which has never been
equaled by anyone (man or woman). She went on to
become the first major money winner on the LPGA
circuit. |
 Dean
Edwards Smith was the head
basketball coach at the University of North
Carolina from 1961 to 1997. During his tenure he
took the Tarheels to a record 32
consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances,
including 13 consecutive Sweet Sixteens, and had
amassed a total of 879 wins, making him second
only to Bobby Knight on the list of all-time
wins. |
 James
Ronald Ryun became the first high
school student ever to break the 4-minute mile in
1964. In 1965 he established a high school and
open mile record that stood until 2001, and also
set a one-mile record for high school runners
that still stands today. |
 Clint Bowyer
started racing motocross at age 5, and racked up
over 200 wins in nine years. He made the move to
four wheels in 2000 and won six championships in
two years. Since moving up to NASCAR in 2004 he
has racked up a total of 15 wins in three series
and has been a contender for a driver
championship every year. |
