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Identifier: athleticsfootba00shea (find matches)
Title: Athletics and football
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Shearman, Montague, Sir, 1857-1930
Subjects: Athletics Rugby football Soccer
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ch pursuits follows him to otherprofessions, and has more than once contributed in nosmall degree to early success in the work of life. Tothose who in the past or in the present have takeninterest in athletic sports, or wish to know their history,or who feel, as I do, that they afford the opportunityof innocent and healthy pleasure, as well as of bodilydevelopment, I commend the study of these pages, com-piled by one who has ample means of knowledge, anda ripe judgment with which to gauge the accuracy andauthenticity of any records of the performances whichhe describes. RICHARD E. WEBSTERTemple: Octoher 1%%^. ATHLETICS CHAPTER I, THE HISTORY OF ATHLETIC SPORTS IN ENGLAND. Hanc olim veteres vitam coluere Sabini, .... sic fortis Etruria crevit Scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma. Running and jumping are sonatural and so easy to the_^ young, that in one senseIt may be said they nomore have a his-tory than laugh-ing or weeping.As long as therehave been menon the earthIt maysafely
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Harry VIIIthrowing the hammer I I III III l; STANVtV B 2 4 ATHLETICS be asserted that there have been running matches ; and inevery warhke nation feats of strength, speed, and enduranceof the body have excited admiration. With but few nations,however, have athletic exercises formed an art and become afeature of national life ; and where this has been the casethere is a history, and an interesting history, of the practiceof feats of strength and speed. To write such a history ofEngHsh athletic sport is no easy task ; for, as far as this writeris aware, it has never been seriously attempted before. Thelearned Strutt, whose work is such a mine of wealth to sport-ing antiquarians, contents himself with informing his readersthat * it is needless to assert the antiquity of foot-racing,because it will readily occur to everyone that occasions con-tinually present themselves which call forth the exertionsof running. . . . Originally, perhaps, foot-races had no otherincitement than emulation, o

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  • bookyear:1894
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Shearman__Montague__Sir__1857_1930
  • booksubject:Athletics
  • booksubject:Rugby_football
  • booksubject:Soccer
  • bookpublisher:London___Longmans__Green
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