ABSTRACT
Imagine we have a DeLorean car like the one in the Back to the Future movies. We blast off, travelling backwards through time until we arrive at 1880, right in the middle of the period when most sports are acquiring sets of rules and institutional bodies to govern them. It is 32 years since Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott met at Seneca Falls to launch the American Women’s movement and two years since the 19th Amendment, which proposed votes for women, was first rejected by Congress. It will continue to be rejected in every session up till 1920.
