"Inter-School Athletics"
Speech
By: Elma L. Warner
Date: March 31, 1906
Source: Warner, Elma L. "Inter-School Athletics." Paper read before the Public School Physical Training Society, Brooklyn, New York, March 31, 1906. In American Physical Education Review 11, no. 3, September 1906, 182–186.
About the Author: Elma L. Warner was a member of the Public School Physical Training Society in Brooklyn during the early twentieth century.
Introduction
Cycling was one popular form of exercise for ladies in the late nineteenth century, especially as bloomers began to appear as the appropriate dress of choice for women while engaged in exercise. Another popular sport for young ladies, starting when Senda Berenson introduced the game at Smith College in 1892, was basketball. Berenson's rules were based on those of the game's originator, James Naismith, but with a heavy emphasis on keeping...
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