Why? The Science of Athletics

1 t 54 WHY?-THE SCIENCE OF ATHLETICS such efforts as produce the expressions we have been discussing pass off rapidly and, so far as science has discovered at present, leave no after effects behind them. In short, no sound young athlete, who is reasonably well trained, need fear that participation in athletics will affect adversely either his longevity or his health. It is only the veterans and the untrained competitors who are asking for trouble.