The Jimmy DeForest Boxing Course is a comprehensive six-volume correspondence training program developed by legendary boxing trainer Jimmy DeForest during the late 1920s. Designed as a structured twenty-week course, the series guides students from fundamental boxing principles to advanced offensive and defensive techniques through progressive lessons, illustrated demonstrations, conditioning exercises, roadwork, diet recommendations, and personalized training...
Published by the former Department of Physical and Health Education in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin, this newsletter chronicles the department’s history, faculty, alumni, programs, and achievements. Today, the department continues its legacy as the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, making these newsletters an important record of its...
Texas Longhorns media guides are official annual publications produced by the University of Texas at Austin athletic department. They serve as comprehensive record books for teams like Texas Longhorns men’s basketball, including rosters, jersey numbers, player bios, season statistics, and historical records. For researchers, they are one of the most reliable sources for verifying details—especially for older seasons...
These scrapbooks were compiled by George Alex Harris and include events and people from the 1920s during his time as a student at the University of Texas at Austin. George Harris was a track athlete at UT who earned his letter in 1924-’25 and 1930. Harris also assisted legendary Clyde Littlefield as a coach of...
“Joe Weider’s 15 Exciting Courses To A He-Man Body” was a small mail-order bodybuilding pamphlet produced by Joe Weider. It served primarily as a marketing booklet to sell Weider’s full training courses, equipment, and nutritional supplements rather than as a complete standalone training manual. The pamphlets were published in the late 1950s and 1960s. At the time, Weider and...
Clippings from the Ottley Coulter collection cover a variety of topics such as the circus, strongwomen, strongmen, child athletics, posing, equipment, gyms, and more, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sources of these clippings include magazines such as Strength, Physical Culture, Health and Strength, National Police Gazette, and others. The clippings are unprocessed, but...
This collection of pamphlets reflects the diverse and often fervent opposition to vaccination and public health regulation in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawn from the Jesse Mercer Gehman Collection, these publications exemplify the rhetoric of medical dissent at a formative moment in American public health history. Jesse Mercer...
Published by Strength & Health Magazine, this calendar features many of the greatest Mr. Americas and Mr. Canadas of the era. Each month features a different bodybuilder posing with a photo and stats for every month. To view this issue in PDF format, check out Mr. America Bodybuilder Calendar on The Strongman Project.
The Moscow Dynamos, football champions of the U.S.S.R., visited Britain after WWII. Their successful tour, in which they defeated Cardiff City, the Arsenal, and drew with both Chelsea and the Glasgow Rangers, created in Britain a significant interest in Soviet sport. Physical culture and sport in the Soviet Union has always been a government-sponsored affair...
