Contact Us Press Room. In , sports were starting to become a national obsession in the United States. Most teams only played locally. Unless they attended the games personally, people heard about their favorite teams' victories and losses by word-of-mouth or the newspapers , as there were no televisions or broadcast radio stations. Uniforms were very different and players wore little safety equipment.
Bennie Owen coached the OU basketball, baseball, and football teams between and image courtesy of the Tulsa World. The Brooklyn Dodgers played in Ebbets Field for the first time. Jim Thorpe joined the New York Giants as an outfielder and played with them for three years image courtesy of the Library of Congress. In , there was no National Football League, and it was the first year that the forward pass was used effectively in a game. This game increased the popularity of the forward pass, which is now essential to an effective football strategy.
This picture, from the Texas v. OU game, shows how football players dressed back then, with little padding and optional leather helmets image from the OU yearbook The Sooner. Today, American boxers hold eight of seventeen world boxing titles image courtesy of the Library of Congress. This is their team from the β season image courtesy of the International Soccer Archives.
The Quebec Bulldogs won the first Stanley Cup in and the second in In , the Indy was only three years old. Participants raced their bikes for four laps around Grand Avenue, which equaled a total distance of miles. More Americans go to school today than in Back then, only about half of all children in America were enrolled in school, while today almost all children are enrolled. This is partly because of the expansion of access to public school past the 8th grade and the passage of child labor laws.
Today, jobs require much more education and technical knowledge. A college education is also more affordable today than it was in This means that about nine out of ten Americans in had a high school diploma, and almost three out of ten had a bachelor's degree or higher. Aside from how few people were getting an education, school in looked very different from school today. At that time, most children in Oklahoma attended small rural schools, some even in one-room schoolhouses.
