Athletic Training

PREFACE THE following pages' constitute the legacy which Michael C. Murphy has left to the boys and young men of America, and, indeed, to the whole athletic world. They contain the results of thirty years spent in the develop– ment of track and field athletics as a science. Because of his wonderful success in turning out intercollegiate, Olympic, and world's cham– pions, he was always recognized, even by his rival coaches, as the dean of his profession. He entered the profession at a time when the training of athletes was not recognized as a science, but he devoted to it a keen under– standing of human nature and a rare genius for discovering new and improving old meth– ods of promoting athletic efficiency. At the time of his death, on June 5, 1913, he was rightfully credited, both in this country and in Europe, with having made the most im– portant contribution to a science which has v