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Title: Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium

Author: Jessie H. Bancroft

Release Date: May 31, 2008 [EBook #25660]

Language: English

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[Illustration: RING A' ROSES

_From the painting by Fred Morgan_

_Frontispiece_
]

GAMES

FOR

THE PLAYGROUND, HOME, SCHOOL
AND GYMNASIUM

BY

JESSIE H. BANCROFT

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, NEW YORK CITY;
EX-SECRETARY AMERICAN PHYSICAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION; MEMBER AMERICAN
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE; AUTHOR OF "SCHOOL
GYMNASTICS," ETC., ETC.

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1922

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1909,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published, December, 1909.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION 1

TO THE TEACHER OF GAMES 26

COUNTING-OUT; CHOOSING SIDES; WHO'S "IT"? 35

MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVE GAMES 43

QUIET GAMES 211

FEATS AND FORFEITS 243

SINGING GAMES 259

BALLS AND BEAN BAGS 295

_a._ Specifications for Balls, Bean Bags, and
Marking Grounds, etc. 297
_b._ Bean Bag and Oat Sack Games 303
_c._ Ball Games 319

INDEXES

GAMES FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, FIRST TO EIGHTH YEARS 427

GAMES FOR HIGH SCHOOLS 433

GAMES F