HARRY B. PASCHALL


Harry Barton Paschall was born in 1898, and encouraged by seeing performances of the Saxons and Sandow on their tours of America quickly became a devotee of Physical Culture.

Embracing the Calvert creed of commonsense in training he became an accomplished national lifter.

As a writer in the 1940's he courted controversy, by publishing a series of articles in Strength and Health criticising certain publishers of bodybuilding mags, saying they were bringing the game into disrepute by marketing "Gay" magazines.

But he was probably better known for his down to earth articles, sense of humour and his alter ego, the larger than life cartoon character 'Bosco'. When everybody else was promising muscles overnight by Bombing and Blitzing, Harry wrote of sensible methods that really worked.

I believe Muscle Moulding was one of the best books written on Bodybuilding.

Gil Waldron


An early photo of the classic 'Master & Slave' pose.
Here Tony Sansone is the 'Master' & Harry Paschall the 'Slave'

Click to the left for a full-size image.

Muscle Moulding

Paschalls famous first book which includes his
cartoon character 'Bosco'

First published in 1950

The Bosco System of Progressive Physical Training

by Harry Paschall

First Published in 1954

Contributed by

Bosco's Strength Note Book
Volume 1 No 2

by Harry Paschall

Date unknown

Contributed by John Digby


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