Thomas K. Cureton, Jr.: Pioneer researcher, proselytizer, and proponent for physical fitness

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-12

  Berryman, Jack W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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ART; ARTICLE; FITNESS; HISTORY; HUMAN; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; SPORTS MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PORTRAITS; SPORTS MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030097012     PISSN: 02701367     EISSN: 21683824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02701367.1996.10607920     Document Type: Article

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25. 44–45. Much of the material dealing with Cureton’s work at Suffield Academy was included in a report he wrote in 1936 for Clifford Brownwell to satisfy the requirements for a class at Teachers College, Columbia University. Cureton, “Suffield Academy Philosophy, Organization and Administration of Health and Physical Education, 1925–29,” cited in Cryer, Thomas Kirk Cureton, Jr.,” 210.
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50. Cryer, C. Thomas Kirk Cureton, Jr.,” 109. 109–112. Jogging was formally introduced to the Eighth National Conference on the Medical Aspects of Sports in November 1966, and an article in JAMA the following year helped it gain further national attention. Waldo E. Harris et al., “Jogging: An Adult Exercise Program,”/AMA 201 (1967): 759-761. Kenneth H. Cooper’s book, Aerobics, was not published until 1968.
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