Playground Construction and Dimensions

Contents: 1. The significance of physical education and the construction of sports facilities. 2. Preliminary considerations before planning sports facilities. 3. Fundamentals in designing playing fields and sports grounds. 4. Plans and descriptions of playing fields. 5. Athletics. 6. Badminton. 7. Baseball. 8. Basketball. 9. Boxing. 10. Cricket. 11. Fencing. 12. Football. 13. Golf. 14. Gymnasium. 15. Hockey. 16. Judo. 17. Kabaddi. 18. Kho-kho. 19. Softball. 20. Swimming. 21. Table tennis. 22. Tennis. 23. Volleyball. 24. Weightlifting. 25. Wrestling. 26. Grass field or hard field. 27. Design of small stadium. 28. Handling the traffic. 29. Ground stands. 30. Supplementary installations. 31. Technical equipment. 32. Obstacle tracks. 33. School sports facilities. 34. Playground for children. 35. Camps of tents. 36. Combination of individual sports facilities into a well functioning whole.

"The present book Playground Construction and Dimensions is the result of painstaking effort by the author in the field of physical education and sports. In this book all the major sports and games are explained with their playground construction and dimension along with their relevant illustrations for better understand each sports and games.

Every efforts are made to make this book more precise and concise.

It is hoped that the present book will be of immense useful for the students of physical educations and sports sciences, prospective coaches, sportsperson etc." (jacket)