Swimming Scientifically Taught
by Frank Eugen Dalton
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About this eBook
- Author
- Dalton, Louis C. (Louis Cecil), -1974
- Title
- Swimming scientifically taught : A practical manual for young and old
- Credits
- Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure
- Subject
- Swimming
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 19065
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19065
- Release Date
- August 16, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SWIMMING — SCIENTIFICALLY TAUGHT — SWIMMING SCIENTIFICALLY TAUGHT
- 2.A PRACTICAL MANUAL FOR YOUNG AND OLD — By — PROF. FRANK EUGEN DALTON, P.S.A. — Instructor in Scientific Swimming at the Dalton Swimming School, and Originator of the Dalton Method — and — A Chapter on Advanced Strokes — By LOUIS C. DALTON Of the Dalton Swimming School — WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS — FIFTH EDITION — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY — NEW YORK AND LONDON — TO MY FATHER — The Late Capt. Davis Dalton — Transcriber's Note:
- 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.PART I
- 5.INTRODUCTION — THE IMPORTANCE OF SWIMMING — LEARNING BY THE BOOK
- 6.PART II
- 7.VARIOUS KINDS OF STROKES — THE BACK STROKE — THE DALTON STROKE — THE BACK AND DALTON STROKE — THE BREAST STROKE — CHANGING FROM BACK TO BREAST STROKE
- 8.NEW PART II
- 9.ADVANCED STROKES — THE SIDE STROKES — THE TRUDGEON STROKE — THE SINGLE OVER-ARM STROKES — THE ENGLISH RACING STROKE — THE DOUBLE OVER-ARM STROKE — THE CRAWL STROKE
- 10.PART III
- 11.FLOATING, DIVING AND SCIENTIFIC SWIMMING — TREADING WATER — FLOATING — DIVING — SWIMMING LIKE A DOG — PLUNGING — SCULLING — SWIMMING BACKWARD ON THE CHEST — THE WASHING TUB — THE PROPELLER — THE TORPEDO — THE CATHERINE WHEEL — ROLLING — SWIMMING LIKE A PORPOISE — THE PENDULUM — SOMERSAULTS — DOUBLE SOMERSAULTS — WITH ONE LEG OUT OF WATER — SWIMMING WITH CLOTHES ON — WITH HANDS AND FEET TIED — OVER AND UNDER — SWIMMING UNDER WATER — MONTE CRISTO SACK TRICK — NOTABLE FEATS BY CELEBRATED SWIMMERS
- 12.PART IV
- 13.WATER POLO — AS A PASTIME — ITS EVOLUTION IN AMERICA — HOW THE GAME IS NOW PLAYED — PREPARATORY WORK — HOW TO DEVELOP THE NEW PLAYER — A FEW POINTS — AMERICAN RULES
- 14.PART V
- 15.CRAMPS, HOW TO SAVE LIFE, RESUSCITATION, ETC. — CRAMPS — HOW TO SAVE LIFE — RESUSCITATION AFTER RESCUE — HALL'S METHOD IN RESUSCITATION — SYLVESTER'S METHOD
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