Author : Chuck Hines
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2008-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1438920903
Chuck Hines enjoyed a 40-year career with the YMCA, during which he was a strong advocate of the Olympic sport of water polo. He was a three-time All-America player, and he coached teams at three YMCAs that won national championships. His teams all started out at the beginning level, in small pools and with insufficient equipment, and fought their way to the top. This book is the story of those teams and their rags to riches achievements.
Author : Harry Blutstein
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2017-08
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 9781760405687
The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games have become known as the 'friendly games', but East-West rivalry ensured that they were anything but friendly. From the bloody semi-final water polo match between the USSR and Hungary, to the athletes who defected to the West, sport and politics collided during the Cold War.
Author : Kyle Utsumi
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781483572031
The Road to SydneyOne hundred years after water polo became the first team sport in the Olympics, women's water polo made its debut at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Read the history of the United States women's National Team, and the battle to compete on the Olympic stage.A Team Like No OtherLed by head coach Guy Baker, thirteen women brought their talents together to rise from underdogs to contenders for Olympic gold. Their individual stories, and the story of the first women's Olympic water polo team, will surprise and inspire Olympic enthusiasts.
Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 078644066X
The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis were both unusual and controversial. One of the major problems for Olympic scholars has been to determine which of the events at these Games were truly of Olympic caliber. The Games were included as part of the World's Fair, and every athletic contest that took place under the Fair's auspices was deemed "Olympic." These activities included croquet and water polo, high school and college championships in football and basketball, as well as the "Anthropology Days" events in which members of "primitive" "tribes" competed against one another. The author demonstrates, after great deliberation, that 16 events of the 21 overall were truly Olympic sports and gives descriptions, scores, and analyses for each (as well as for the five non-Olympic events). Appendices include literature relating to these games, lists of noncompeting foreign entrants, and a guide to all competitors.
Author : John E. Findling
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Jeux olympiques - Histoire - Encyclopédies
ISBN : 9780275976590
This unique book provides information on the events surrounding the Olympics, such as political controversies, scandals, tragedies, economic issues, and peripheral incidents.
Author : Chuck Hines
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1467048992
CHUCK HINES enjoyed a 40-year career with the YMCA, during which he was a strong advocate of the Olympic sport of water polo. He was a three-time All-America player, and he coached teams at three YMCAs that won national championships. His teams all started out at the beginning level, in small pools and with insufficient equipment, and fought their way to the top. This book is the story of those teams and their rags to riches achievements. The author has written two instructional texts on water polo and has served as chairman of national committees for the Amateur Athletic Union, American Swimming Coaches Association, and YMCA of the USA. He was an officer of the U.S. Olympic Water Polo Committee for the Games of 1972, which found the American men bringing home the bronze medal. His YMCA girls team won the gold medal at the Junior Olympics and competed at the World Womens Water Polo Club Championships in 1977. In recent years, he has been a historian for the sport, writing numerous articles for the YMCAs national magazine and the Water Polo Planet web-site. Now retired and a member of the Western North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, Mr. Hines and his wife Lee and family members reside in Asheville, North Carolina.
Author : Marion K. Stell
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Sports
ISBN : 9780207169717
A feminist account of the success of Australian women in international sport despite their exclusion from male-centred sporting traditions. Includes chapters on TAboriginal sportswomen' and TThe impact of feminism 1970-1990'. Stell co-authored TAustralians: 1988' in TAustralians: A historical library'.
Author : United States. President's Commission on Olympic Sports
Publisher :
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Olympics
ISBN :
Author : David Wallechinsky
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781845136956
David Wallechinsky's compendious book has long been the preeminent point of reference for sports enthusiasts and journalists alike Every sports writer assigned to cover the Games ensures they have their early copy of this prodigious work of reference, packed with absorbing anecdotes and essential statistics. A treasure trove of 116 years of Olympic history, it is also an amazingly readable book, for in the course of recording every single Olympic final since 1896, it concentrates on the strange, the memorable, and the unbelievable. Who knew (until reading this book) that croquet was once an Olympic sport, or tug of war, or that a 72-year-old once won a silver medal for target shooting? This new edition also has every finals result, recorded by the top eight competitors in every event at the Beijing Olympics, and full descriptions of rules and scoring for every event included for 2012. It is the one truly essential Olympics book.
Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786489529
The 1900 Olympic Games have been termed "The Farcical Games." The events were poorly organized and years later many of the competitors had no idea that they had actually competed in the Olympics. They only knew that they had competed in an international sporting event in Paris in 1900. No official records of the 1900 Olympics exist. Based primarily on 1900 sources, the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are compiled herein for all of the 1900 Olympic events, including archery, track and field, cricket, equestrian, fencing, soccer, pelota basque, water polo, and rowing, among other sports.
