Why? The Science of Athletics

ATHLETIC PSYCHOLOGY 353 If you care to study any Freshman, who has gone up to Oxford or Cambridge with the real intention of working, you will, if you have the vision a coach ought to have, detect in his features little signs of mental strain after he has attended two or three lectures in a morning, while an air of general lassitude will testify to a form of bodily fatigue. But after his first term, when he has got used to taking notes and knows. what points it is important for him to remember, you will see a vast improvement. But never, during the whole of a man's university career, will you find him capable of giving his maximum effort to training as a "Blue" at the same time that he is working for the degree that he is not going to find it any too easy to take. Watch the Athlete's Weight An accurate weighing machine should be just as important an adjunct to training quarters as a shower bath and the massage table, because the athlete's weight is, of all things, the surest guide to his condition. The coach, moreover, who does not keep a daily chart of the weight of his charges either does not know his job, or else he is not doing it. The weight varies with the athlete, and with the type of athlete ; the following is a Weight ChaFt for Men, as compiled by Dr. James J. Walsh, M.D., Chief of the Medical Staff, Metropolitan A.A.U., U.S.A., and pub– lished in .The Amateur Athlete for April 1934- The Average Height and Weight Chart for Boys is also given. z