4 posts tagged with sports and history (View popular tags)

Where can I find film footage of Richard Nixon bowling? [more inside]
posted on Apr 19, 2008 - 1 answers

In 1895 a Scottish printer by the name of James B. Ferguson introduced Icelanders to football (soccer) and gymnastics. Is there any way to find out what happened to Ferguson after he left Iceland in 1896? [more inside]
posted on Jan 7, 2008 - 8 answers

Who Made The Bobsleds For The 1932 U.S. Olympic Team? [more inside]
posted on Aug 9, 2006 - 9 answers

I've recently become obsessed with the origin of American sports team names. In particular, team names which make a specific reference to something unique in the history or culture of the team location. Does anyone know of an online list of this type of information? And also, anyone care to site any not obvious examples of this from American sports? [more inside]
posted on Nov 9, 2005 - 52 answers