Although Coleman Griffith has been coined the "father of sports psychology", there were others before him who experimented with sports psychology but never took the time to get it off the ground. One who took an interest before Griffith was Norman Triplett between 1895 and 1919 according to Davis, Huss and Becker (1995). Triplett's experiments became a starting point for sports psychology, based on his observations of the sport of cycling. This experiment involved the physical task of spooling fishing reels. He incorporated the physical task of reeling fishing reels, an experiment he called Dynamogenic Factors in Pacemaking and Competition, which was published in 1898 (Cox et al., 1993). Unfortunately, Triplett's work did not motivate others to follow in his footsteps of similar research and as a result from 1920 to 1930 Coleman Griffith took the lead. As a result, Triplett's work became the first sport psychology research study in America, while Griffith was the first to do a systematic analysis of sport psychology (Cox et al., 1993). The purpose of this article is to first introduce psychologist Coleman Griffith, the second purpose is to provide a review of Griffith's work in sport, and the final purpose is to fast forward nearly a decade later to sport psychology after Coleman Griffith. Who was Coleman Griffith? Dr. Coleman Griffith was born May 22, 1893 in Guthrie Center, IA. He attended college in Illinois at Greenville College where he played baseball until graduating in 1915. After teaching at his alter malter for a year, Griffith transferred to the University of Illinois where he earned his Ph.D. in 1920. Between 1918 and 1922 Griffith made a “series of informal observations” on the “psychological factors involved... half of paper ......-4510.6.3.267McCullagh, P. (1995). Sport psychology: a historical perspective. The sports psychologist, 9(4),363-365. http://journals.humantechnics.com/tspSinger, R. N., Hausenblas, H. A., & Janelle, C. M. (2001). Prologue: A brief history of research in sport psychology. In R. N. Singer, H. A. Hausenblas, & C. M. Janelle (Eds.), Handbook of sport psychology. (pp. xiii-xix). New York: John Wiley & Sons. Van Raalte, J. L., & Brewer, B. W. (2002). Introduction to the psychology of sport and exercise. In VanRaalte, J.L., & Brewer, B.W. (Eds.), Exploring the psychology of sport and exercise. (xxiii-xxix).Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.Williams, J. M., & Straub, W. F. (1998). Sports psychology: past, present, future. In J.M. Williams (Ed.), Applied sport psychology: Personal growth to peak performance (pp. 1-11). Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Pub.