Healthful sports for boys
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1910
- Author
- Rochefort, Alfred
- Publisher
- New York : The Christian Herald
- Call Number
- 05.5 C46h
- Author
- Rochefort, Alfred
- Responsibility
- Alfred Rochefort
- Publisher
- New York : The Christian Herald
- Published Date
- 1910
- Physical Description
- 212 pages
- Abstract
- Pertains to a collection of tips, information, rules and codes of conduct on various sports. The publication is catered to men and discusses an abundance of sporting activities, all of which have been divided among the four seasons. Readers are granted a rare insight into the social expectations of men during the early 20th century, and the ways in which they were expected to behave.
- Contents
- Chapter I: Marbles - How played
- Chapter II: Whip tops and Top Games
- Chapter III: Kites and How Made
- Chapter IV: Hoops, wheels and buzzers
- Chapter V: Let's go A-Fishing
- Chapter VI: Boating and Canoeing
- Chapter VII: Small sail boats
- Chapter VIII: How to swim
- Chapter IX: Styles of swimming
- Chapter X: Things boys should know
- Chapter XI: Curious rhymes for games
- Chapter XII: Tag and bull in the ring
- Chapter XIII: All about leap frog
- Chapter XIV: Duck on the rock-cat
- Chapter XV: Ball, bat and racket
- Chapter XVI: American baseball
- Chapter XVII: All about football
- Chapter XVIII: Mumbly peg-hop scotch
- Chapter XIX: How to camp out
- Chapter XX: Bicylces and lassoes
- Chapter XXI: Golf, hockey and shinny
- Chapter XXII: Skating-skiing-snow shoeing
- Chapter XXIII: Coasting-tobogganing-sleds
- Chapter XXIV: General athletics
- Chapter XXV: Cries-shouts-college yells
- Chapter XXVI: Clever tricks
- Chapter XXVII: Sleight-of-hand
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 05.5 C46h
- Collection
- Archives Library
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