Sargent had been a circus strongman, and in 1869 he became the gymnasium director of Bowdoin College in Maine after beating one of the students in a boxing match. 5. Eugen Sandow: the first modern ...

When the No 3 Company of Vaudeville Stars arrived in Auckland in November 1902, its headline act, “the world-famed athlete and exponent of physical culture” Eugen Sandow ... like Greek slaves, Sandow ...