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In both Old and New England Puritans only allowed what were called “lawful sports” to be played. A lawful sport should refresh the participants so that they could better execute their worldly and spiritual “callings” or duties. ... The sports that were permitted are fishing and hunting. The reasons they were allowed were because the sports pursued food for their families and got rid of vermin. ... Sports and activities were becoming very popular in New York and surrounding colonies. ... William Penn the founder of Pennsylvania summed up the attitude of the Quakers on sports. ... The Quakers had trouble enacting the lawful sport rules. ... Rational recreation includes the possibility of vigorous physical exercise which does not include competitive sports. ... Their ideas failed to catch on immediately due to factors such as Protestant opposition to sports and the popularity of feminine iconography within the mainline Protestant churches. ... By the end of the Nineteenth century Protestant and Victorian middle class Americans were beginning to see the moral benefits to athletics, which includes moderate women’s sports, when guided by amateurism
The strenuous life took place in the last two decades of the nineteenth and the first two decades in the twentieth century.
Approximate Word count = 960
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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