Basket Ball: for Coach, Player and Spectator
Reference work
By: E.D. Angell
Date: 1918
Source: Angell, E.D. Basket Ball: for Coach, Player and Spectator. Chicago: Thomas E. Wilson, 1918, 7–12.
About the Author: E.D. Angell was a lieutenant in the United States Navy Medical Corps and an expert sports coach. In the introduction to Basket Ball: for Coach, Player and Spectator, Chris Steinmetz, captain of the 1905 University of Wisconsin baseball team, wrote that Angell never had a losing baseball team and "instilled in the men the determinator to fight to the very end and never to quit." He is also the author of the sporting book "Play" on various sports. Angell coached both basketball and baseball at the University of Wisconsin.
Introduction
In the late nineteenth century, two sports were invented in the YMCAs of Massachusetts to solve pressing issues with recreational programs....
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