Von Schenckendorff, the foremost figure in the German playground movement, died March 1, 1915, and was succeeded as chairman of the Central Committee by Dr. F. A. Schmidt of Bonn, the former vice-chairman. Of the other members of the original board of directors Raydt died December 6, 1914, Koch April 13, 1911, Eitner September 4, 1905, and Hermann February 20, 1906. The board in 1915 was constituted as follows: Chairman, Schmidt; corresponding secretary, Kohlrausch of Hannover (since Raydt’s death); treasurer, Dominicus of Berlin-Schöneberg (following Koch); and Hagen of Schmalkalden, Sickinger of Mannheim, and Neuendorff of Mühlheim-on-the-Ruhr. FOOTNOTES: [89] Born in Brunswick, attended for eight years the Gymnasium Martino-Katharineum, where his father was one of the teachers, studied classical and German philology at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin, and Leipzig, 1864-1867, and for the rest of his life taught Greek, Latin, middle high German, and history at the Gymnasium Martino-Katharineum, becoming _Oberlehrer_ in 1874 and Professor in 1886. Consult _Jahrbuch für Volks- und Jugendspiele_ 1912, pp. 238-245; _Monatsschrift für das Turnwesen_, =1=, 97-104; =30=, 241-245. For Hermann consult _Monatsschrift für das Turnwesen_, =6=, 321-329; =25=, 130-137; _Körper und Geist_, =14=, 421-427. [90] When Thomas Arnold’s fourteen years as head master at Rugby Public School were ended by his death in June of 1842, cricket was the recognized summer sport at the English public schools and at Oxford and Cambridge universities; rowing was firmly established as a fall and spring exercise at Eton College, and the Oxford-Cambridge boat race was an annual affair; football was regularly played at Rugby and others of the public schools; and continuous records of the “big-side runs” of the Rugby School Hare and Hounds—forerunners of the later track and field athletics—were already five years old. By the time Thomas Hughes published his “Tom Brown’s School Days,” fifteen years later (April, 1857), all of the public schools had adopted football as the chief winter game, and the first steps looking toward organized track and field athletics as a recognized branch of public school and university sports had been taken. The annual track meets between Oxford and Cambridge date from 1864. The first of the annual Cambridge-Oxford contests in Rugby football was held in 1872, and two years later a similar series in the Association game began. (“Association football” dates from the publication of rules by the London Football Association, December 1, 1863. The Rugby Football Union was organized in London, January 26, 1871). [91] Berlin, R. Gaertner, 1900. [92] Consult the _Deutsche Turn-Zeitung_, 1876, pp. 305-310 and 313-319; and _Neue Jahrbücher für die Turnkunst_, 1876, pp. 94-95, 145-150, 163-186, 241-247. [93] Düsseldorf, L. Voss & Co. Second edition, enlarged, 1882.