Athletic Training

L INTRODUCTION XXIX those more gifted ones who bore the colors of their clubs, colleges, or native land in athletic competition, he still realized the value of less strenuous forms of exercise to those whose physiques were cast in less heroic mould. At Pennsylvania he adapted himself to the scholarship standard required of athletes and ·was most strenuous in requiring students un– der his care to live up to it. During the last ten years, when his health was beginning to fail, his reputation as a trainer at Yale and Pennsylvania and for the last two American Olympic teams reached its height. When the question of a trainer for the 1916 Olym– pic team was raised, the committee with one voice appointed him, although his health was . visibly broken, a compliment which he under– stood and keenly appreciated. The following pages were written either by his own hand or dictated by him substan– tially as they stand, and many of his former pupils and friends will recognize in them the terse, epigrammatic style of the man. One cannot give too much credit to Mr. Bushnell for practically forcing him to put down his ideas from time to time and also for arranging