![]() ![]() Shovecraft-you’d be wrong to characterize its players as anything less than serious and determined athletes. While today's derby still maintains some of that showmanship-players often compete under pseudonyms like H.P. ![]() Those early contests had skaters circling a track for thousands of miles over a period of a month to test their endurance the current incarnation is more of a contact sport that involves players protecting-or blocking-a player known as a "jammer" who is trying to skate past the opposing team for points.Ī popular sport through the 1950s and 1960s, derby briefly lost some of its luster when a bit of the theatricality usually found in pro wrestling made its way to the tracks to bolster television ratings in the 1970s. ![]() When sports promoter Leo Seltzer got the idea to organize a roller skating marathon in 1935, he probably didn’t expect that his event would provide the basis for a fledgling sport known as roller derby. ![]()
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