Photograph, colored snapshot, shows a group of children in a grassy park, participating in a relay potato sack race. 4 children are in potato sacks. There is an adult onlooking behind the children.
Photograph Details
Subject Person or Organization
West Chicago Park District
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1975
Time Period
20th Century
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, Photographic
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Photograph
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
General Notes
Note Type
Cataloging Note
Note
Sack race rules from http://www.sackraces.com/:
Individual race:
Participants will run to the sack, put both feet in and begin hopping toward the finish line.
Contestants must keep both feet in sack and at least one hand on the sack at all times.
The sack must remain as close to the waist as possible and should not fall below the knees.
The first racer to the finish line wins.
Relay Race:
To play you need one burlap sack for each participant or team. The more people racing, the more fun it is.
Each player puts both legs into sack and hops around a cone, or some marked point, and back, tagging the next person in line.
Then, the next person in line gets into the sack and repeats the once-around the cone course.
The first team to the finish line wins.
