Coaching and Care of Athletes

.. COACHING EDUCATION culum, both practical and theoretical, in the teaching, 0rganiza– tion, and technique of athletics and team and other games, together with the principles of physical training. Instruction is given also in the application to sport and physical welfare of such matters as physiology, psychology, welfare supervision, hygiene, the medical aspect of sport, leadership, and so on. Such subjects are also dealt with as "The Function of Athletics in Modern Education," "Grading Athletics to meet Physical Capacity," "The Educational Significance of Sport," "Physical Testing Programmes," and "Spectator Sportsmanship." The School thus provides not only a full education for the man who wishes to become a professional track and field coach, but also a much wider education which will enable the holder of the College Diploma to earn his living in many branches of sport and physical education. · Shorter courses and refresher courses are also arranged for older students who, by reason of experience in leadership and personal success in sport, are already partly qualified to act as instructors. These special courses are extremely valuable. Intensive re– search frequently brings to light new matters in relation to physical fitness and sporting efficiency which must be incor– porated in physical training and coaching if the coach wants to keep up to date and thereby obtain the best results. Students at the new School are afforded opportunities to attend important sporting fixtures and to visit educational institutions, so that they may 6btain a comprehensive understanding of the wider aspects of qoth education and sport. It is surely significant of the need there is for coaches and of the efficiency of the instruction at Loughborough that before the School had been in existence six months stuaents were instructing regularly at recreational evening classes throughout Leicestershire, besides acting as athletic coaches at the National Social Service Centre, the various Easter Schools, and the R.A.F. College, Cranwell, Lincolnshire. From what has been said already it would appear that the professional coach would do best to seek his education, whether in England or not, at some such institution as the Loughborough College School of Athletics, Games, and Physical Educatien, whereas the amateur coach, who has not unlimited time at his disposal, may best achieve his object by intensive study, the active practice of -coaching, and attending such short courses 59 '·