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In 1901, along with Senda Berenson, and Lucille Eaton Hill, Applebee founded the American Field Hockey Association (AFHA) to promote the game. When Ballintine's enthusiasm for field hockey led her to ask Applebee to remain in the United States to introduce the sport to American college women, an 80-year career that would change the public perception of women on the playing field was launched. Armed with wands and a dumbbell, the only implements available as substitutes for hockey equipment, Applebee then demonstrated the sport. Shortly after Ballintine's request for a demonstration of the game, Applebee took the group out behind the gymnasium, where she explained that field hockey consisted of two teams of 11 members each, and that the object of the game was to knock the ball into the netted goal of the opposing team. The Moseley Ladies' Hockey Club had been organized in 1887, followed by the Wimbledon Ladies' Hockey Club in 1889 (the oldest women's hockey club still in existence), and the Irish Ladies' Hockey Union (the first women's national hockey union) in 1894. Although practically unknown in the United States, field hockey had been wildly popular in the British Isles as a women's team sport since the 1880s, not long after Lady Margaret Hall began playing the game. A fellow classmate, Harriet Ballintine, was director of athletics at nearby Vassar College and asked Applebee to demonstrate the game of field hockey to their class. In the summer of 1901, Applebee was 29 years old and a graduate of the British College of Physical Education in London when she came to the United States to study with Dr.

The notion that physical exercise could improve poor health was considered controversial at the time, but as Applebee grew older she took the idea to heart and began to exercise, with such positive results that she became convinced of the importance of physical education to women's well being. Applebee studied privately with a neighboring cleric whose lessons included Greek and Latin. From the time of her birth, in Chigwall, Essex, England, on June 4, 1873, she was considered a delicate child and kept from attending school with other children. Field Hockey Association Hall of Fame and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, and the Award of Merit of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.įragile health in childhood may have been responsible for Constance Applebee's lifelong dedication to women's athletics. Field Hockey Association (USFHA), superseding the AFHA (1922) edited and published The Sports-woman, the first sports magazine for American women (1922) inducted into the U.S. Traveled to United States to study at Harvard University (1901) founded the American Field Hockey Association (AFHA, 1901) appointed director of athletics at Bryn Mawr College (1904) founded the U.S. Name variations: Connie, "The Apple." Born Constance Mary Katherine Applebee in Chigwall, Essex, England, on Jdied in Burley, Hampshire, England, on Janugraduated from the British College of Physical Education in London never married no children. Field Hockey Association, published and edited the first American magazine devoted to women's sports, and advanced the development of women's athletics. English-born coach and promoter of field hockey who founded the U.S.