Athletic Training

18 ATHLETIC TRAINING who m college rowed on the crew in the spring and played football in the fall. They had voracious appetites and would eat noth– ing but steaks and drink nothing but water at every meal. If there was no steak they would not eat. At the same table was an– other man who never touched meat, but he could do just as much work as the two men who devoured steak. And while I am not a vegetarian, I am inclined to think that of the two diets the vegetarian was by far the bet– ter, especially in its after effects. The principal end to be sought by the young athlete is to keep the stomach and bowels in good condition. These two things are as important aS> the actual training itself. The average person does not pay nearly as much attention to his food, his stomach, and bowels as he ought, and if what I have said induces him to pay more attention to these things, and form correct habits concerning them, it will be of lasting benefit to him. Any boy or young man who takes up ath– letics of any kind without acquiring habits of personal cleanliness misses one of the princi– pal lessons which athletics ought to teach.