Skakespearean Sports
By: Mason Jahn and Ron Roe
Introduction
- Shakespearean Sports
- Many people may think they did not have sports, but that is wrong
- Very popular and interesting
- I think their sports are cool
Sports
- Most popular sports: jousting and archery contest
- Only the best of archers did the archery contest
- Other sports: horseshoes, billiards, colf, hammer throwing, dancing, and hardcore wrestling
- Colf is a games just like golf but they use a leather ball and a wooden club with a piece on metal at the end. They try to score by hitting the ball in a hole.
- Wrestling was known as "The Bloody Sport"
- Mostly Roman Catholics played sports
- Most people played sports on Sundays
Difference Compared to Today
- Rules
- Styles
- Tools or balls
- Who plays: mostly everybody plays today, back then only upper class and middle class play
- We play them all the time, unlike them
- Lower class played few sports
- We changed some of the names of sports
- We have more sports than them
- (Image to the left is the tools for colf)
Similarities Compared to Today
- Tools
- Rules
- Dancing is kinda the same but they dressed differently
- Name of sports
Conclusion
- If they did not have sports back then then we might have not had them today
- We owe it to the people of the past