Clare Briggs / Comics

Recess – and “Crack the Whip”

by Clare Briggs · March 11, 2022

Tags: Days of Real Sport Recess

Clare Briggs

Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.

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Brandon Berg says:

March 11, 2022 at 1:16 am

Crack-the-whip was explicitly prohibited at my school. I wonder what the story behind that was. Looking it up now, I can’t find any allusions to it being particularly dangerous.Report
- Kolohe in reply to Brandon Berg says:
  
  March 11, 2022 at 10:04 am
  
  Well, in this school starting fires seems like a perfectly normal recess activity, so it might be on par with that.
  
  Edit – oh never mind they’re clapping erasers, lol.Report
  - Jaybird in reply to Kolohe says:
    
    March 11, 2022 at 10:18 am
    
    There are at least 40 kids out on the playground and 10-12 erasers that need clapping.
    
    I want to say that this isn’t from his childhood memories in Wisconsin but from seeing kids play when he was an adult.Report
- John Puccio in reply to Brandon Berg says:
  
  March 11, 2022 at 10:18 am
  
  If played correctly, someone was getting injured.
  
  Of course, our school yard surface was entirely asphalt, so…Report

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