Athletic Training

AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION FoR thirty years I have been intimately associated with the development of track and field athletics in the United States. Most of t:qat time has been devoted to training ath– letes at Yale and the University of Pennsyl– vania, varied with a few years and several summer seasons spent in occupying similar positions with athletic clubs. During my connection with athletics, first as a sprinter and then as a coach, tremendous changes have taken place in these sports. The system I have taught has been developed by the experiments I have made upon myself, the experiences of the athletes I have trained, my observation of athletics. in various Eu– ropean countries, and the results achieved by my associates in this country. It was in the hope that the science of athletics, which has grown up during my lifetime, might be of some help to the youth of this xvii