Athletic Training

XIV PREFACE took his work suffering from ill health, but stuck to it doggedly to the end, and his genius for conditioning men, and for communicating to them his own indomitable spirit, resulted in a record even better than that made in 1908. When the Olympic Committee met in 1913 to plan for the 1916 Olympiad it sent a tele– gram to the veteran trainer, then in his last illness, acquainting him with th~ir action in · unanimously appointing him to coach the 1916 team. He will do no more coaching in person; but this book, which contains the fundamental principles of correct training for every ath– letic event, and for the building up of strong bodies, will help thousands of boys and young men who never came in touch with his mag- · netic personality. The editor wishes to acknowledge his in– debtedness to Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, head of the Department of Physical Education at the University of Pennsylvania, and to Mr. M. F. Sweeney, Director of Athletics at The Hill School, for their assistance in the final read– ing of the proof for the elimination of any technical errors which might have crept into