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Games for the Playground, Home, School and
by Jessie H. Bancroft
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Title: Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
Author: Jessie H. Bancroft
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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
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INTRODUCTION 1
TO THE TEACHER OF GAMES 26
COUNTING-OUT; CHOOSIN
Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
by Jessie H. Bancroft