Eagle Sports Annual 3 follows on in style from the previous Sports annuals. Its introduction
by Marcus Morris states that in the following pages you will be able to read about your favourite sport,
and see many of your favourite sportsmen in action, and it is to be hoped that you will improve your
own ability in sport as a result.
Original Price : Uknown
Published by : Hulton Press Ltd in 1954
Edited by : Patsy Hendren / W. Barrington Dalby / Jack Crayston / Bagenal Harvey / Kenneth Wheeler / Carl Sutton
Dimensions : 19.5cm x 25.5cm with 128 pages.
Selected highlights:
- Go behind the scenes at Arsenal
- Read about the first sub-4 minute mile in detail
- The Hungarian football team were a force to be reckoned with
- Enter a competition that's so hard they give you two attempts as standard
| Contents | ||
|---|---|---|
| Page 4 | Introduction | by Marcus Morris |
| 5 | EAGLE 'Favourite Sportsman' of the Year: Stanley Matthews | |
| 9 | The First Four-Minute Miles | by James Audsley |
| 15 | Soccer School . . . Conducted by Jack Crayston | |
| How the Hungarians Practise | ||
| Goal: It's All Done By Angles | by Jack Kelsey | |
| Full Back | by Stan Willemse | |
| Centre Half | by Bill Dodgin | |
| Winger | by Gerry Ward | |
| Inside Forward: How I Play | by Ivor Broadis | |
| Centre Forward | by Roy Bentley | |
| Wing Half: A Position to Enjoy | by Jack Crayston | |
| How to Watch | by Kenneth Wheeler | |
| 33 | Schoolboy Jamboree | |
| 38 | Five Boys Reach for the Moon | by Kenneth Wheeler |
| 41 | The Characters of Cricket | by John Arlott |
| 45 | Cricket Coaching | by Alf. Gover |
| 50 | The Story of Athletics | by James Audsley |
| 60 | Athletics for the All-Rounder | by George Pallett |
| 71 | King of the Brighton Road | |
| 74 | Barrington Dalby's Boxing Scrapbook | |
| 86 | How to Box | by Lt.-Col. Dudley S. Lister |
| 92 | Stranger than Fiction | by W. A. Cunningham |
| 96 | Winning Tennis | by Eric Fenton |
| 98 | Swimming Breast Stroke | by George Fryer |
| 104 | Crash-A-Minute Sport Comes to Britain | by Graham Payne |
| 108 | Cycle Speedway: The Wolves Show their Mettle | |
| 111 | Opportunity Knocks: Who's There? | by Kenneth Wheeler |
| 116 | Enterprise | |
| 118 | Going Fishing | by Bruce Leslie |
| 122 | Fireside Sport | by Graham Payne |
| 127 | Sporting Silhouettes Competition | |
| Cartoons are by Brian White | ||