Hare and Hounds History

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

The Documents

• Hare and Hounds reference in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850).
• Hare and Hounds reference in Charles Dickens' "Christmas Stories" (1853).
• Hare and Hounds run from Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), by Thomas Hughes.
• "Paperchases" from Sporting Gazette. (1871)
• Hare and Hounds reference in William Blaikie's "Ten Years Among the Rowing Men." (1873)
• Rules and Bye-Laws of the Thames Hare and Hounds Club (1874)
• From Andrew M. F. Davis' "College Athletics." (1883)
• From William Dewitt Hyde's "His College Life." (1896)
• From Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh. (1903)
• A passage from Harold Wade's "Cross-Country Running" (1911)
• From Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to his Children. (1919) Added 4 Feb 2002
• Excerpts from "Pa" Jackson's Sporting Days and Sporting Ways, Hurst & Blacket, London (1932)
• Hare and Hounds reference in The Pastures of Heaven (1932), by John Steinbeck.

Hash House Harriers Documents

Although I've made no attempt to collect the hundreds of articles written about the Hash House Harriers, some other Hashers have:

• ZipPy's Archive at harrier.net
• New York HHH's collection of Hash Articles
• Includes Codpiece's (Copenhagen HHH) links to article's on Hashing, esp. Red Dress Runs.
• Includes Floater's (Stockholm HHH) links to articles on the Hash.

Other Stuff

Junk that just got on this site somehow

Links to all Hash House Harrier pages on GeoCities Horribly out-of-date and incomplete
• Tallahassee & Area HHH Online Photo Album
• Sign my guestbook
• Read my guestbook

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