The Book of athletics
By: edited by Paul Withington ; illustrated from many photographs of athletes and athletic events
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Published: 1914
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Athletics; Sports; Physical education and training
Notes: "First appeared in 1895, edited by Norman W. Bingham, jr."
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The essentials of an athlete; title: Competitive athletics : their place in school and college sports, and a word about training for athletic events; title: Football; title: Football : team-play, types of players, and rules; title: Modern football and how to play it / Michael C. Murphy; title: Training for the team / Alvin C. Kraenlein; title: The new football : a game for thinkers / Fielding H. Yost; title: Football generalship : the captain and the quarter-back; title: How to play center / Henry H. Ketcham; title: How to play guard / Joseph M. Duff; title: How to play tackle / Edward J. Hart; title: Tackle play / Leland S. Devore; title: Importance of the end position / Stanfield Wells; title: How to play fullback / John P. Dalton; title: The play of the backs / Percy L. Wendell; title: How to play halfback / James Thorpe; title: Kicking / Edward W. Mahan; title: Following the ball / Sanford B. White; title: Track Athletics; title: How to become a sprinter / Michael C. Murphy; title: How to run the hundred and two hundred twenty yard dashes / Ralph C. Craig; title: How to train for the distance run / Keene Fitzpatrick; title: The art of hurdling / A.L. Jackson; title: Field Athletics; title: How to throw the weights / Joseph Horner, Jr.; title: The running broad-jump, the high-jump, and the pole-vault / Jay B. Camp; title: The Olympic Games of 1912; title: The Olympic Games of 1912 / Ralph C. Craig; title: Baseball; title: Science v. skill in Baseball / Irving E. Sanborn; title: The importance of batting; title: Amateur versus professional; title: The inside game as played by catcher and pitcher; title: How inside baseball has decreased the batting, by perfecting defensive fielding; title: Scoring the game; title: Rowing; title: How to train a crew / W. A. Bancroft; title: Hockey; title: Hockey / Fred D. Huntington; title: Lawn Tennis; title: A sermon on lawn tennis / James Dwight; title: Lawn tennis / Richard Norris Williams, 2d; title: Swimming; title: The art of swimming / Harry Rose; title: Sport in the water / Alexander Black; title: Intercollegiate Soccer; title: Intercollegiate soccer / H.G. Francke; title: Wrestling; title: Lacrosse; title: Lacrosse / Paul Gustafson; title: Basketball; title: How to play basketball : the defense / Fred A. Kohler; title: Basketball : the offense / James A. Reilly; title: Golf; title: Golf : the coming game / Ralph Cracknell; title: Golf as a game / S.P. Griffitts