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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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plate: Children playing Ring A' Roses 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 for Playgrounds, Gymnasiums, and Large Numbers 435 Games for Boys' and Girls' Summer Camps 440 a. Active Games 440 b. Quiet Games 442 House-party and Country-club Games 444 a. Active Games 444 b. Quiet Games 445 Games for Children's Parties 446 a. Active Games 446 b. Quiet Games 447 Seashore Games 449 Alphabetical Index 451

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Ring A' Roses Frontispiece FACING PAGE All-up Relay Race 45 Buying a Lock 58 Catch-and-Pull Tug of War; a High School Freshman Class 60 Forcing the City Gates 89 How Many Miles To Babylon? 108 Jumping Rope on the Roof Playground of a Public School 118 Oyster Shell 143 Pitch Pebble 147 Prisoner's Base 158 Rolling Target as Played by the Hidatsa Indians,
Fort Clark, North Dakota 169 Snow Snake 182 A City Playground 200 Flower Match 220 Skin the Snake 252 Draw a Bucket of Water 263 The Duck Dance 276 Balls 297 Captain Ball in a High School 342 Circle Stride Ball 358 Drive Ball 375 Ball Game on the Roof Playground of a Public School 400 Tether Ball 409

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

PURPOSE AND PLAN.—This book aims to be a practical guide for the player of games, whether child or adult, and for the teacher or leader of games. A wide variety of conditions have been considered, including schools, playgrounds, gymnasiums, boys' and girls' summer camps, adult house parties and country clubs, settlement work, children's parties, and the environment of indoors or out of doors, city or country, summer or winter, the seashore, the woodland, or the snow. The games have been collected from many countries and sources, with a view to securing novel and interesting as well as thoroughly tried and popular material, ranging from traditional to modern gymnasium and athletic games. An especial effort has been made to secure games for particular conditions. Among these may be mentioned very strenuous games for older boys or men; games for the schoolroom; games for large numbers; new gymnasium games such as Nine Court Basket Ball and Double Corner Ball; games which make use of natural material such as stones, pebbles, shells, trees, flowers, leaves, grasses, holes in the sand or earth, and diagrams drawn on the ground.

The description, classification, and arrangement of the games have been made with the steadfast purpose of putting them into the most workable form, easily understood, with suggestions for getting the most sport and playing value out of them, and with means of ready reference to any class of games for use under any of the conditions mentioned. The series of indexes which accomplish this last-mentioned purpose make it possible to classify the games in many different ways, sparing the reader the necessity for hunting through much unrelated material to find that suited to his conditions. The index for schools is essentially a graded course of study in games.

The ball games requiring team play have been described according to an analytic scheme not before used for the class of games given in the present volume, which makes it possible to locate at a glance information about the laying out of the ground, the number, assignment, and duties of players, the object of the game, rules and points of play, fouls, and score. The various kinds of balls are described with official specifications. Diagrams for all kinds of games have been supplied unsparingly, wherever it seemed possible to make clearer the understanding of a game by such means, and pictorial illustration has been used where diagrams were inadequate. The music for all singing games is given with full accompaniment. Suggestions for the teaching and conduct of games are given, with directions for floor formations. Means of counting out and choosing sides and players are described, and one section is devoted to forfeits.

Under each of the main divisions chosen—miscellaneous active games, quiet games, singing games, bean-bag games, and ball games—the material has been arranged in alphabetic order to facilitate ready reference, although a general alphabetic index is appended. In short, the book aims to bring together all related material and every available device for making it readily accessible and easily understood.

Original research SOURCES AND NATURE OF MATERIAL.—The material in this volume, aside from that accumulated through a long experience in the teaching and supervision of games, has been collected through (1) special original research, and (2) bibliographical research. The original research has been made among the foreign population of New York City, where practically the entire world is accessible, and in other sections of the United States. This has resulted in some entirely new games that the writer has not found elsewhere in print. From among these may be mentioned the Greek Pebble Chase, the Russian Hole Ball, the Scotch Keep Moving, the Danish Slipper Slap, and, from our own country, among others, Chickadee-dee from Long Island, and Hip from New Jersey. Entirely new ways of playing games previously recorded have been found, amounting not merely to a variation but to a wholly new form. Such is the method here given for playing Babylon, a form gathered from two different Scotch sources. Another example is the game of Wolf, for which additional features have been found that add greatly to its playing value, especially the rule whereby the wolf, when discovered by the sheep who are hunting for him, shall take a jump toward the sheep before his chase after them begins; or, should he discover them first, the requirement that they take three steps toward him before the chase begins. Such points add greatly to the sport of a game, and with the spoken formulas that accompany them form a rich find for both student and player.

One may not well refer to the original research without mention of the charm of the task itself. It has been one of the sunniest, happiest lines possible to follow, attended invariably with smiling faces and laughter on the part of old or young, native or foreign, the peasant people or those more sophisticated.

Bibliographical research and results

The bibliographical research has covered a wide field. Heretofore the principal sources in English for the collector of games have been the invaluable and scholarly folklore compilations of Mr. William Wells Newell (Songs and Games of American Children) and Mrs. Alice B. Gomme (Traditional Games in the Dictionary of British Folk Lore). The earlier British collection by Strutt (Sports and Pastimes of the English People) has also been a source of great value. In the United States considerable collecting and translating of games have from time to time been done by the physical training magazine, Mind and Body. For all modern athletic games an invaluable service has been rendered by Messrs. A. G. Spalding and Brothers in the publication, since 1892, of the Spalding Athletic Library, under the direction of Mr. A. G. Spalding and Mr. James E. Sullivan. The author is greatly indebted to all of these sources. In addition, hundreds of volumes have been consulted in many fields including works of travel, reports of missionaries, etc. This has resulted in games from widely scattered sources, including European countries, the Orient, the Arctic regions, and the North American Indians. While in such a mass of material there are some games that are found in almost all countries, so that one is continually meeting old friends among them, a very considerable harvest of distinctive material has been gathered, eloquent of environment, temperamental, or racial traits. Such, among many others, are the Japanese Crab Race; the Chinese games of Forcing the City Gates, and Letting Out the Doves; the Korean games with flowers and grasses; the North American Indian games of Snow Snake and Rolling Target; and the poetic game of the little Spanish children about the Moon and Stars, played in the boundaries marked by sunshine and shadow.

Standard Material

But the object of the book has been by no means to present only novel material. There is an aristocracy of games, classic by all the rights of tradition and popular approval, without which a collection would be as incomplete as would an anthology of English ballads without Robin Hood, Sally in our Alley, or Drink to me only with thine Eyes. These standard games are amply represented, mingled in the true spirit of American democracy with strangers from foreign lands and the new creations of modern athletic practice.

Local color and humor in games

The games, old and new, are full of that intimation of environment which the novelist calls local color, often containing in the name alone

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