Download or read book The Book of Athletics (Classic Reprint) written by Paul Withington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pick up some tips and take your game or coaching to the next level with this collection of articles on various sports by successful athletes and coaches. The Book of Athletics opens with an introductory chapter written by the editor, accomplished amateur athlete and Harvard scholar Paul Withington, in which the he details the essentials of an athlete and the place of athletics in high schools and colleges. It becomes clear from the introduction that this is a book intended for coaches and teachers working with athletes of a high proficiency. In all, thirteen sports are profiled, including football, baseball, athletics, hockey, wrestling, basketball, golf, and several others. The sections on football, athletics, and baseball are afforded the most space, with football alone receiving fifteen distinct articles written by various authors. The Book of Athletics is a detailed book and one that will appeal to those interested in high performance sport. Athletics historians or anybody interested in the evolution of sports will also certainly find this to be a meaningful book, full of useful information and interesting training techniques. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.