Sports During The Victorian Era
I was surprised when I learned that the Victorian era had many sports. Sports allow
people to come together and spend time with one another. Women, children and men could all
participate in one sport or another. As it is now, it was back then, a great way to spend time with
each other and just kick back and relax. Some sports that were played back then were bicycling,
croquet, lawn tennis, and soccer.
Bicycling was a very popular sport to participate in. It was inexpensive to start and also
a great way to get around without having a car. It started in England in about 1885 when people
needed to save money. By the 1890’s people started calling the era the “Golden Age of Cycling”.
When cycling first started the “bikes”, …show more content…
That was when the boundaries of the net and
courts were set and became widely accepted. In 1877 the first serve was served and that’s when
the tennis we know today became the amazing sport it now is.
Football is one of my favorite sports to watch and it was also a popular sport during the
Victorian Era. If you compare it to today’s games, it was like rugby and soccer put together.
During the 1800’s football was more like the soccer of today. It started in England in 1871 and
was organized by churches to get more attendance at church. Thanks to those churches, football
has become the number one most popular sport in the America today! The first rules were that
the first team who scored 2 out of 3 times won the game. In university football, the players could
tackle the other team’s players to keep them from scoring a goal. Those rules eventually became
widely accepted and developed into the game we know today. The first governing body ever was
the Football Association (FA).
Women didn’t get to play a lot of sports during the Victorian era. Back then women
weren’t thought of very highly. The two sports women mainly played were croquet and
people to come together and spend time with one another. Women, children and men could all
participate in one sport or another. As it is now, it was back then, a great way to spend time with
each other and just kick back and relax. Some sports that were played back then were bicycling,
croquet, lawn tennis, and soccer.
Bicycling was a very popular sport to participate in. It was inexpensive to start and also
a great way to get around without having a car. It started in England in about 1885 when people
needed to save money. By the 1890’s people started calling the era the “Golden Age of Cycling”.
When cycling first started the “bikes”, …show more content…
That was when the boundaries of the net and
courts were set and became widely accepted. In 1877 the first serve was served and that’s when
the tennis we know today became the amazing sport it now is.
Football is one of my favorite sports to watch and it was also a popular sport during the
Victorian Era. If you compare it to today’s games, it was like rugby and soccer put together.
During the 1800’s football was more like the soccer of today. It started in England in 1871 and
was organized by churches to get more attendance at church. Thanks to those churches, football
has become the number one most popular sport in the America today! The first rules were that
the first team who scored 2 out of 3 times won the game. In university football, the players could
tackle the other team’s players to keep them from scoring a goal. Those rules eventually became
widely accepted and developed into the game we know today. The first governing body ever was
the Football Association (FA).
Women didn’t get to play a lot of sports during the Victorian era. Back then women
weren’t thought of very highly. The two sports women mainly played were croquet and