This is an ongoing project to research the prehistory of the Hash House Harriers, "the drinking club with a running problem." Hare and Hounds was being played around the world before the Hash House Harriers were formed as a Hare and Hound club in 1938. What clubs went before them? Where were they? How, if at all, was a kennel of "Harriers" different from a kennel of "Hash House Harriers?"
The truth is that most Hash House Harriers probably don't care. Of the ones who do, there is a faction that wants to award me a down-down, and another that wants to sit me on the ice. For the minority that's left, here is a meager collection of pre-1938 documents that reference Hare and Hounds.
ON ON,
Square Root, Tallahassee & Area H3
Although I've made no attempt to collect the hundreds of articles written about the Hash House Harriers, some other Hashers have:
Junk that just got on this site somehow
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