Athletic Training

PREFACE xi out such wonderful champions as M. F. Swee– ney, who made his world's record of 6 feet 5t inches at this meet; C. J. Kilpatrick, who made a record of 1.53-g- for the half-mile; and T. P. Conneff, who, under Murphy's training, later made a world's record of 4.15! for the mile, which stood until 1911, when J.P. Jones, of Cornell, reduced it by one-fifth of a second. During his connection with the New York Athletic Club, where he coached in the sum– mer months, he developed such world's cham– pion sprinters as B. J. Wefers, the first col– lege man who ever ran 100 yards in 9-! seconds, and the first to make the present world's rec– ord of 21-!- seconds for 220 yards. He also trained.M. W. Long, who still holds the world's record of 47 seconds for 440 yards. Indeed, there is hardly an event on the athletic pro– gramme in which Murphy did not develop champions. In 1900 he took the University of Pennsylvania and the New York Athletic Club teams to the Olympic games at Paris. In these games, in which America completely outscored the field, the athletes trained by Murphy carried off nearly all the honors. It was not until 1908 that the United States