Identifier: physicalculture201908macf (find matches)
Title: Physical culture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: MacFadden, Bernarr Aldolphus, 1858-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York : Physical Culture Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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of an ornamental sort, medicine-ball ex-ercises, boxing, wrestling, and fencingwith single-sticks, foils, broadswordsand fencing muskets. Where the facil-ities of the Post admit, additional gym-nasium exercises are prescribed. During the second period the exercisesare more strictly athletic in nature. Also,the period is divided into three courses,these last having due regard for the cli- matic conditions of each Post and itsavailable gymnastic facilities. The first course is composed of thesimplest form of the exercises alludedto, the second of the more difficult andthe third of those hardest of execution.Some idea of the very thorough athleticeducation of the American soldier maybe obtained from a recitation of the chieffeatures of the trio of courses. Thus in
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A Group of Army Athletes and Medal Winners. At One Meeting These Men Won Eighteen Medals THE ATHLETES OF THE REGULAR ARMY 13 the first course the soldier is instructedin standing jumps forward, backward,sideways, upward and deep-ditch; twostanding broad jumps; three standingbroad jumps; hop, step and jump; leap-frog ; chinning the bar; climbing ladders,pole and rope; hand-ball; putting 16-pound shot; throwing 16-pound ham-mer ; throwing baseball for distance andaccuracy; wrestling, any hold; runningbroad jump; high jump; one-half andone-mile walk, and so forth. The second course includes sprintingfor 100, 220 and 880 yards; the hurdlesat 120 and 220 yards; pyramids, twotiers and three tiers; kicking football foraccuracy and distance, and wall-scaling. In the third course we find vaulting;tug of war ; runs of 440 yards and one There are three big days during theArmy athletic year, one of which fallsabout the middle of May, the next onJuly 4th, or as near it as possible, andthe last in

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