Winning the Spiritual Tug-of-War: Why Brute Strength Isn’t Enough In the 1908 London Olympics, the Tug-of-War event saw a classic showdown. The United States team was packed with elite, world-class track and field athletes. They were the picture of brute strength and peak conditioning. Their opponents? A team of police officers from the Liverpool Police Department. On paper, the Americans should have dominated. But the Liverpool officers had a secret weapon. They knew the Eng