Word: sported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sport has always been one of the primary means of civilizing the human animal, of inculcating the character traits a society desires. Wellington in his famous aphorism insisted that the Battle of Waterloo had been won on the playing fields of Eton. The lessons learned on the playing field are among the most basic: the setting of goals and joining with others to achieve them; an understanding of and respect for rules; the persistence to hone ability into skill, prowess into perfection. In games, children learn that success is possible and that failure can be overcome. Championships...
Kelly Galiher, 15, has grown up in the Cedar Rapids system that celebrates sport for all. The attitudes and resistance that have stunted women's athleticism elsewhere are foreign to Kelly, a sprinter. Does she know that sports are, in some quarters, still viewed as unseemly for young women? "That's ridiculous. Boys sweat, and we're going to sweat. We call it getting out and trying." She has no memories of disapproval from parents or peers. And she has never been called the terrible misnomer that long and unfairly condemned athletic girls. "Tomboy? That idea has gone out here...
Such statistics are impressive, but they merely reinforce the most significant aspect of the explosive growth of women's sport: the new, refreshingly unapologetic pride of the female athlete. Atlanta's Carolyn Luesing, 36 and the mother of two, has been running seriously since 1973, and the sport has become an indispensable part of her life. "I have this compulsion to see what my potential is. I don't do it for anyone else. I do it for myself." Luesing will never make the Olympics, but her feelings, and those of thousands like her, parallel the thoughts of someone...
...crusade for women's sport has been helped by a number of court cases, scattered across the country, that have prodded reluctant athletic directors and league organizers into letting girls join boys' teams if there were no similar teams set up for the girls...
...minefield, HEW took until 1975 to publish a set of regulations to govern application of Title IX. The provisions stopped far short of requiring a school to set up an equivalent women's team for every male one; but if a school had only one team in a noncontact sport, like golf or tennis, women had a right to try out for it. Schools did not have to let females take part in such contact sports as football, basketball, ice hockey and rugby. When it came down to the key question of money, the regulations were vague; they allowed more...