Question: What year saw the first attempts at turning the recreation into a modern sport?
About the article "Archery", section "A modern sport".

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The 1840s saw the first attempts at turning the recreation into a modern sport.
The first Grand National Archery Society meeting was held in York in 1844 and over the next decade the extravagant and festive practices of the past were gradually whittled away and the rules were standardised as the 'York Round' - a series of shoots at 60, 80, and 100 yards.
Horace A. Ford helped to improve archery standards and pioneered new archery techniques.
He won the Grand National 11 times in a row and published a highly influential guide to the sport in 1856.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the sport experienced declining participation as alternative sports such as croquet and tennis became more popular among the middle class.
By 1889, just 50 archery clubs were left in Britain, but it was still included as a sport at the 1900 Paris Olympics.
In the United States, primitive archery was revived in the early 20th century.
The last of the Yahi Indian tribe, a native known as Ishi, came out of hiding in California in 1911.
His doctor, Saxton Pope, learned many of Ishi's traditional archery skills, and popularized them.
The Pope and Young Club, founded in 1961 and named in honor of Pope and his friend, Arthur Young, became one of North America's leading bowhunting and conservation organizations.
Founded as a nonprofit scientific organization, the Club was patterned after the prestigious Boone and Crockett Club and advocated responsible bowhunting by promoting quality, fair chase hunting, and sound conservation practices.
In Korea, the transformation of archery to a healthy pastime was led by Emperor Gojong, and is the basis of a popular modern sport.
The Japanese continue to make and use their unique traditional equipment.
Among the Cherokees, popular use of their traditional longbows never died out.
In China, at the beginning of the 21st century, there has been revival in interest among craftsmen looking to construct bows and arrows, as well as in practicing technique in the traditional Chinese style.
In modern times, mounted archery continues to be practiced as a popular competitive sport in modern Hungary and in some Asian countries but it is not recognized as an international competition.
Archery is the national sport of the Kingdom of Bhutan.
From the 1920s, professional engineers took an interest in archery, previously the exclusive field of traditional craft experts.
They led the commercial development of new forms of bow including the modern recurve and compound bow.
These modern forms are now dominant in modern Western archery; traditional bows are in a minority.
In the 1980s, the skills of traditional archery were revived by American enthusiasts, and combined with the new scientific understanding.
Much of this expertise is available in the "Traditional Bowyer's Bibles" (see Additional reading).
Modern game archery owes much of its success to Fred Bear, an American bow hunter and bow manufacturer. 
The 1840s saw the first attempts at turning the recreation into a modern sport.
The first Grand National Archery Society meeting was held in York in 1844 and over the next decade the extravagant and festive practices of the past were gradually whittled away and the rules were standardised as the 'York Round' - a series of shoots at 60, 80, and 100 yards.
Horace A. Ford helped to improve archery standards and pioneered new archery techniques.
He won the Grand National 11 times in a row and published a highly influential guide to the sport in 1856.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the sport experienced declining participation as alternative sports such as croquet and tennis became more popular among the middle class.
By 1889, just 50 archery clubs were left in Britain, but it was still included as a sport at the 1900 Paris Olympics.
In the United States, primitive archery was revived in the early 20th century.
The last of the Yahi Indian tribe, a native known as Ishi, came out of hiding in California in 1911.
His doctor, Saxton Pope, learned many of Ishi's traditional archery skills, and popularized them.
The Pope and Young Club, founded in 1961 and named in honor of Pope and his friend, Arthur Young, became one of North America's leading bowhunting and conservation organizations.
Founded as a nonprofit scientific organization, the Club was patterned after the prestigious Boone and Crockett Club and advocated responsible bowhunting by promoting quality, fair chase hunting, and sound conservation practices.
From the 1920s, professional engineers took an interest in archery, previously the exclusive field of traditional craft experts.
They led the commercial development of new forms of bow including the modern recurve and compound bow.
These modern forms are now dominant in modern Western archery; traditional bows are in a minority.
In the 1980s, the skills of traditional archery were revived by American enthusiasts, and combined with the new scientific understanding.
Much of this expertise is available in the "Traditional Bowyer's Bibles" (see Additional reading).
Modern game archery owes much of its success to Fred Bear, an American bow hunter and bow manufacturer.
Samuel Perry Jacks (April 23, 1915 – May 14, 1975 in Glasgow, Scotland) was the Canadian inventor of the sport of ringette and floor hockey.
He was posthumously inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.
Jacks moved to Canada with his family in 1920 and his first exposure to sport was in 1935 when he was the assistant physical director at the West End YMCA in Toronto.
One year later, he would invent floor hockey.
He created the first set of rules for floor hockey, an achievement later recognized by the United Nations.
From 1940 to 1945, he served with the Canadian Forces as a member of the 1st Parachute Battalion.
After his military service, he met Agnes and they were married.
They had three sons, Barry, Bruce and Brian.
They lived in Toronto and Jacks worked at the West End YMCA in Toronto.
In 1948, he was asked to become director of parks and recreation for the city of North Bay, Ontario.
He was instrumental in developing the first Northern Ontario Playground Hockey Association (NOPHA) which encouraged youth to play hockey on outdoor rinks.
He then invented the sport of ringette because for a long time he saw that females needed a team sport to play on the ice rink. 
Highworth has a Non-League football club Highworth Town F.C.
who play at The Elms Recreation Ground. 
"Viasat Sport" was launched as a pan-Nordic channel in 1999.
In January 2002, a dedicated Danish channel, "Viasat Sport Denmark", launched and replaced the pan-Nordic version in Denmark.1 February 2004, Viasat launched two new sport channels; "Viasat Sport 2" and "Viasat Sport 3".
The two existing channels were re-branded as "Viasat Sport 1".
During the autumn the two new channels were refocused, turning Viasat Sport 2 into a dedicated soccer channel and Viasat Sport 3 becoming a channel for motor and contact sports.
In April 2005, a "news channel" called "Viasat Sport 24" was launched.
In the end of 2005, Viasat Sport 1 in Norway was replaced by "SportN", a joint venture with government-owned public broadcaster NRK .
In January 2007, a dedicated golf channel, "Viasat Golf", was launched replacing "Viasat Sport 24".11 April 2007, Viasat Sport 1 in Denmark was replaced by "TV 2 Sport", a joint venture with state-owned broadcaster TV 2.
In early 2008, Viasat launched their first high-definition sports channels: "TV 2 Sport HD" for Denmark and "Viasat Sport HD" för Norway and Sweden.
On October 17, 2008, the Viasat Sport channels went through a major overhaul which saw "Viasat Sport 2" and "3" disappear in Sweden and Norway.
They were replaced by "Viasat Fotboll" (in Sweden), "Viasat Sport" (in Norge) and "Viasat Motor" (both countries).
The Swedish "Viasat Sport 1" was renamed "Viasat Sport".
"Viasat Sport HD" continued to be available in both Norway and Sweden, and "Viasat Golf" was still available in all four Scandinavian countries.
Viasat Sport 2 and 3 continued in Denmark, Finland and the Baltics until January 6, 2009.
On January 7, 2009, "Viasat Sport Baltic" channel was launched in Baltic states.
"Viasat Golf" also became available in the region.
Finland and Denmark didn't receive any replacements for Viasat Sport 2 and 3.
In Bulgaria the channel is called 'Nova Sport'.