Athletic Sports (extract)

Physical Characteristics of the Athlete In Figs. 5, a , h y and 6, a , b , (pp. 61—66), Chart III. (p. 68), you will see runners of another type. In neither of these cases do we find so great a relative distance be­ tween the height standing and sitting as marked the individuals just considered. In both cases the sitting height isproportion­ ally short, and inone case both the leg and thigh are long for the length of the body. In the other case, however, the thigh is long and the leg is short for the sitting height. It will be noticed that in both figures, as shown by the chart, the thigh is long for the leg. The chest and waist measurements are large when compared with other parts of the body. But the striking characteristic in both cases is the large girth measurement taken below the chest-muscles immediately over the ninth rib. Unfortunately this measure­ ment is not shown in the chart, but the expansion in that region is apparent in both photographs. In the Harvard man (Fig. 5) there isa greater development of the chest-muscles; while the Yale man (Fig. 6) has a larger chest-girth, though the lower border of the pectorals is hardly discernible. The Harvard man has broad shoulders and large arms, with narrow hips and small 69