Athletic Training

Xll PREFACE was represented at the Olympic games by a single team which could be accepted as the pick of this country. That year, for the first time, the American Olympic Committee held a series of try-outs in three sections of the country, and with these performances as a guide selected a team of more than one hun– dred athletes. All the men thus selected were taken to London under the direction of the American committee; but the selection of the team was only part of their task. There still remained the bigger job of conditioning all these men, a task the difficulty of which was greatly increased by the sea voyage and the change to another climate. For this the American committee unanimously selected Mr. Murphy. What they thought of him was illustrated by the remark of James E. Sullivan, the American commissioner, when, at the conclusion of the conference, he was asked who nominated Murphy and if any one else had been considered. "When we came to select the coach," said Mr. Sullivan, "Murphy's name was on every one's tongue. We didn't even think of any one else."