Introduction
First published in 1920.
Includes two photographs of world's champion surf board rider George Freeth, page 143.

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First Record Holders of the Golden Gate Swim.
Pacific Coast Record Holders in Swimming and Diving.
Holders of Inter-Collegiate Honors in Fencing, Rowing, and Swimming.
Members of the World's Life-Saving- Alliance.
Organizers of the Girls' Life-Saving Corps at the University of California.
Graduated from the University of California, Department of Physical Education.
Graduated from Teachers' College, Columbia University.
Organizers and Teachers of Swimming in the San Francisco High Schools.
Teachers of Swimming at the University of California and Columbia University, Summer Sessions.

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The purpose of this text book is to simplify the learning and teaching of swimming from a scientific point of view.
Our further objective has been to arrange a series of lessons in their logical progression to meet the demands of schools, playgrounds, clubs, and aquatic centers.
The text has been graduated to serve the needs of beginners and swimmers, and a special section upon the method of procedure for mass instruction and class management has been arranged for teachers of swimming.
We have avoided a detailed and technical analysis of all swimming strokes, featuring only the fundamental ones necessary in the logical progression of swimming.
A lengthy dissertation might be written regarding the values of swimming.
However, it is sufficient to state that it is one of the most popular and pleasurable of athletic activities; from a physiological standpoint it is one of the most healthful exercises for developing the body symmetrically; swimming is necessary from a utilitarian standpoint because it serves as a means of saving life.
A swimming and life-saving test should be one of the graduation requirements in every institution of learning from the elementary through the advanced. Instruction should not be limited to university students, but it is imperative that the youth receive training in swimming and in life-saving.
The leading educators, directors of physical education, aquatic authorities, and members of the medical profession realize that in the near future this demand must be met.
This work is truly applied physical education.
Lyba M. Sheffield.
Nita C. Sheffield, A. M.

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Endorsements of "Swimming Simplified" have been received from many leading educators and swimming authorities.
A list of some of these appears below:
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World's Champion Swimmers:
Langer, Ludy
Kruger, Harold V.
Kahanamoku, Duke

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Sheffield, Lyba M. and Nita Co.: Swimming Simplified Second Edition The Hicks-Judd Company, San Francisco, c1921. Hathi Trust https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015003494161

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