A guide to the history of physical education

About this eBook

Author

Leonard, Fred Eugene, 1866-1922

Original Publication

Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1923.

Credits

Tim Lindell, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure

Subject

Physical education and training -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 78009

Release Date

February 22, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.EDITOR’S PREFACE.
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.HISTORY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION. — PART I EUROPE. — CHAPTER I. THE GREEKS. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.CHAPTER II. THE ROMANS. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER III. THE TEUTONIC INVADERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. ASCETICISM IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER V. MONASTERY AND CATHEDRAL SCHOOLS. — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. CHIVALRY. — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. THE UNIVERSITIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES. — BIBLIOGRAPHY.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. THE PERIOD OF THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. LOCKE AND ROUSSEAU. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.CHAPTER X. THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. FRIEDRICH LUDWIG JAHN, AND POPULAR GYMNASTICS IN GERMANY. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. ADOLF SPIESS, THE FATHER OF GERMAN SCHOOL GYMNASTICS. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. PHYSICAL TRAINING IN THE PRUSSIAN SCHOOLS. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. THE PLAYGROUND MOVEMENT IN GERMANY. — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. PER HENRIK LING, FATHER OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN SWEDEN. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. LING’S SUCCESSORS AT THE CENTRAL INSTITUTE IN STOCKHOLM. — THE CENTRAL INSTITUTE IN 1900 — PROPOSED REORGANIZATION OF THE CENTRAL INSTITUTE (1912). — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOLS OF SWEDEN. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN DENMARK.⁠ [138] — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. GREAT BRITAIN. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. INTERNATIONAL GATHERINGS. — FOOTNOTES:
26. 26.PART II. UNITED STATES. — CHAPTER XXI. THE FIRST INTRODUCTION OF THE JAHN GYMNASTICS INTO AMERICA. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. THE “NEW GYMNASTICS” OF DIO LEWIS. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. GERMAN-AMERICAN GYMNASTIC SOCIETIES AND THE NORTH AMERICAN TURNERBUND. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. PHYSICAL TRAINING IN THE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. SWEDISH SCHOOL GYMNASTICS IN THE UNITED STATES. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. THE PLAYGROUND MOVEMENT IN AMERICA. STATEWIDE PHYSICAL EDUCATION. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
34. 34.INDEX.

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