The YMCA organisation and its physical education and sports activities in Europe during the First World War
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.16926/kf.2015.14.02" target="_blank" >10.16926/kf.2015.14.02</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The YMCA organisation and its physical education and sports activities in Europe during the First World War
Original language description
The following paper looks at the history of the YMCA in Europe at the time of the First World War. During the period in question, this international organisation spent a large amount of money on voluntary aid for soldiers and prisoners of war. Of all National YMCA groups, most financial support for its activities came from the United States of America, where this organisation had also reached its peak in terms of physical education and sports development. Even before the United States of America had entered the First World War, American YMCA secretaries had been involved in European battlefields and prisoner of war camps, despite having first been rejected by local military leaders. These functionaries offered soldiers and prisoners of war a number ofways to spend their free time, including physical education and sport. The American YMCA's efforts were to multiply after the United States of America had entered the war. There followed the transfer of a huge amount of sports material an
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AB - History
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Result continuities
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Prace Naukowe Akademii im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie. Kultura Fizyczna.
ISSN
1895-8680
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Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
27-44
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