Athletic Training

INTRODUCTION THE editor's request for a word of intro- . duction to this book gives me an occasion of which I gladly avail myself to put in words my appreciation of the wide influence for good of one the crowning years of whose career I have had unusual opportunities of observing. I have frequently been asked to account for the great success of the American teams in the world-wide competition of the modern revival of the Olympic games. After speak– ing of the great public-school athletic leagues, with their thousands of schoolboy athletes, the supervised playgrounds dotted over every large city, and the schools and colleges, each with its department of physical education ap– plying more or less closely to the entire student body, I must finally conclude that that suc– cess is due to the appreciation and the study of running, jumping, and throwing weights as xxiii