The 1904 Olympic Games : results for all competitors in all events, with commentary / by Bill Mallon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mallon, Bill, author.

Series:

Mallon, Bill. Results of the early modern Olympics ; 3.

Results of the early modern Olympics ; 3

History of the Early Olympics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olympic Games--(3rd : 1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.).

Olympic Games.

Olympics--Records.

Olympics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Incorporated, publishers, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis were both unusual and controversial. One of the major problems for Olympic scholars has been to determine which of the events at these Games were truly of Olympic caliber. The Games were included as part of the World's Fair, and every athletic contest that took place under the Fair's auspices was deemed ""Olympic."" These activities included croquet and water polo, high school and college championships in football and basketball, as well as the ""Anthropology Days"" events in which members of ""primitive"" ""tribes"" competed against one another. The author

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Abbreviations; References; 1904 Olympic Games-Analysis and Summaries; Summary Statistics; Notes; The 1904 "Official Reports"; Olympic Games ( James E. Sullivan); Notes; The Olympic Games 1904 (Charles J. P. Lucas); Archery; Notes; Athletics (Track & Field); Notes; Boxing; Notes; Cycling; Notes; Diving; Notes; Fencing; Notes; Football (Association Football [Soccer]); Notes; Golf; Notes; Gymnastics; Notes; Lacrosse; Notes; Rowing & Sculling; Notes; Swimming; Notes; Tennis (Lawn); Notes; Tug-of-War; Notes; Weightlifting; Notes; Wrestling; Notes

Non-Olympic SportsAmerican Football (Colleges); Anthropology Days at the Stadium; Baseball; Basketball; Roque; Water Polo; Notes; Appendix I: 1904 Olympic Sports and Events in the Literature; Appendix II: Non-Competing Foreign Entrants; Appendix III: Index of Competitors (by Country); Index

Notes:

"The present work is a reprint of the library bound edition of The 1904 Olympic games : results for all competitors in all events, with commentary, first published in 1999 by McFarland."--title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 5, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4766-2160-8