Track and field athlete Albert Hill | 1500- and 800-meter Olympic champion Albert G. Hill at a presentation by W. Forbes at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics on December 22, 1920. (Firmin/Topical Press Age… ...

The origins of tug of war, a sport with two opposing teams in which each tries to drag the other towards them, are lost in the mists of time. It was an Olympic sport on five occasions, on the ...