1. Book Connection Workshop 2009 Alar Lipping, Ph.D.

2. Question One ► What role did a railroad magnate and a future first Ph.D. recipient from an American university have on the development of the first intercollegiate athletic event?

3. August 3, 1852 ► James Elkins Superintendant of the Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroad Company ► James Morris Whiton Captain of Yale Rowing Club. Six page dissertation in 1861 in Latin entitled Brevis Vita, ars longa.

4. Question Two ► Who was the Canadian man who had a major contribution in developing a popular sport in the United States? ► Extra credit: What is the capital city of Canada?

5. Canadian Male

6. Question Three ► Who was the Lithuanian female who inspired the growth of basketball for females? ► Extra credit: What is the capital of Lithuania?

7. Lithuanian Woman

8. Question Four ► What was the outcome of a White House meeting on October 9, 1905 that impacted the governance of collegiate athletics? ► Extra Credit: Who was the President?

9. President of The United States

10. Question Five ► In the 1940s a mathematics teacher at a prep school in Connecticut and a graduate of University of Chicago devised a formula that popularized college basketball as well as other sports, what did this mathematician create? ► Extra credit: Who was the successful football coach at University of Chicago?

11. Charles K. McNeil ► A mathematics teacher at a prep school in Connecticut in the 1940s. McNeil grew up in Chicago and learned how to gamble while sitting in the bleachers at Wrigley Field. He devised the ATS (Against the Spread); a graduate of University of Chicago. ► Extra Credit: Who was the famous football coach from University of Chicago?

12. Question Six ► Adolph Rupp’s wildcats won 4 NCAA championships in 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958 and one NIT in 1946. In 1950 Rupp’s team was predicted to win both the NCAA and NIT. Name the team that eventually won both tournaments and handed Rupp the worst defeat ever for a Rupp-coached team (39 point loss)?

15. Question Seven ► In what year did the University of Kentucky basketball team integrate? ► Extra Credit: Who was the coach?

17. Question Eight ► What two women’s basketball teams played for the championship at Madison Square Garden before 12,000 fans?

18. Queens College ► Feb. 22, 1975 Immaculata College defeats Queens College, 65-61, before approximately 12,000 fans in the first women's college game played in Madison Square Garden.