More Than Just a Game
Subtitle: One Hundred Years of Organized Sport in Prince Edward Island, 1850-1950
Publisher: Acorn Press & Sport PEI
Published: March 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781894838085
Subjects: History; Sports & Recreation / History; Sports & Recreation; Sports
Description: "More Than Just a Game chronicles one hundred years of organized sport in Prince Edward Island, from the Island and Maritime playing fields to the ultimate athletic achievement in amateur sport: the Olympic Games. It tells the story of how sporting teams came together to create community, and, at the same time, brought communities together." "Included are the stories of athletes such as Bill Halpenny, PEI's first athlete to compete in the Olympics in 1904 and 1912; Michael Thomas, an Island Mi'kmaq, the best and most highly publicized distance runner in Eastern Canada in 1912; and world-famous Joe O'Brien, a harness-racing driver from Alberton who could communicate with horses by the way he held the reins."--BOOK JACKET.