1872 Professional Rowing
Professional Rowing, 1872 Professional Rowing Has Steadily Decreased In Importance With The Rise Of Amateur Rowing ; Its Time Of Greatest Popularity Was In The Sixties, And Though The Names Of Great Professional Scullers Were Familiar Enough For Twenty Years After, Yet Few Americans Sought The Money Prizes, And The ...
1875 1898 Collegiate Rowing
Collegiate Rowing, 1875-1898 Harvard Accepted The Challenge Of Yale To Row An Annual Four-mile Race, And Agreed To With Draw From The Rowing Association, But Not Until After The Regatta Of 1876, Though They Would Also Row The Race With Yale. The Coxswainless Sixes Were Not The Most Satis Factory ...
All Round Individualchampionship
All - Round Individual Championship The Winning Of The Individual All-round Ath Letic Championship Calls For A Man Who Combines In An Unusual Way The Qualities Of Strength And Spring. If A Record-breaking Sprinter, For In Stance, Represents The Acme Of Specialization, The All-round Champion Embodies The Maximum Of Generalization. ...
American Rowing Association
American Rowing Association Since The Earlier Days Of The National Rowing Association, The College Oarsman Had Practically Ceased To Row After Graduation, And Instead Of Going Into A Rowing Club And Keeping Up The Sport, He Stopped Handling An Oar When He Had Rowed His Last University Race. Between Club ...
Beginnings Of Modern Track
Beginnings Of Modern Track Athletics Our English Cousins Had Learned To Run And Had Held Organized Track Games Many Years Before We Went In Seriously For Track Athletics. Early In The Fifties Athletic Clubs Were Formed At Oxford And At Cambridge, And In 1857 The Colleges Of The Latter Universities ...
Beginnings Of Rowing
Beginnings Of Rowing The Idea That Sport May Be Had Out Of Pro Pelling A Boat With An Oar Is Modern ; The Heavy Craft Of Our Forefathers Made Rowing The Hardest Of Labor, And It Was Not Until The Middle Of The Eighteenth Century That It Occurred To Any ...
Club And Professional Rowing
Club And Professional Rowing Through The Civil War Period The Rowing That Was Rapidly Gaining In The Latter Part Of The Fifties Came To A Sudden Stop During The Civil War, And Where Five Clubs Had Been Founded In 1859, The Waverley And The Gulick Of New York, And The ...
Collegiate Rowing Through 1876
Collegiate Rowing Through 1876 There Was No Intercollegiate Rowing After The 1855 Race Between Harvard And Yale Until 1859 ; But During This Time Both Of The Institutions Were Active And Engaged In Many Outside Regattas, Put Ting Not A Little Money Into Their Treasuries, For The College Men Then ...
Competitive Walking
Competitive Walking Except As Contested By The All-round Athletes At Their Annual Individual Championships, Walking No Longer Occupies A Serious Place In The Considera Tion Of Track Athletes. The One-mile Walk Was Dropped From The Mott Haven Programme After The Games Of 1898, And The One-mile, Three-mile, And Seven-mile Walk, ...
Cross Country Runningin
Cross - Country Running In America It Is Pleasant To Turn From The Artificial Cinder Track To The And Freedom Of The Open Country And From Such Gruelling Contests As The Long-distance Races To The Exhilaration Of The Cross Country Run. There Is Excitement In Any Sort Of Racing; And ...
Distance Runs And Distance
Distance Runs And Distance Runners Temperamentally, The Nervous And High-strung American Type Is More Adapted To The Sprints Than To The Distance Runs. That Is To Say, Theoretically Speaking, The Typical American Athlete Ought, With A Given Amount Of Training, To Make A Better Com Parative Showing In The Hundred ...
Gentle Art Of Running
Gentle Art Of Running It Is Rather Difficult For Our Modern Conven Tional Citizen To Appreciate The Gentle Art Of Running. The Limbs Of Our Young Men Too Rarely Leap To The Call Of The Chase, And Our Senses Are Fed On Too Complex Foods To Taste The Simple Joys ...
Hurdling And Hurdlers
Hurdling And Hurdlers The Flight Over The Hurdles Is One Of The Pret Tiest Pictures Ever Framed By The Turf And Trees Of An Athletic Field. The Swift Rush And Rise Arms Outlined Like Wings Of The High Hurdles ; The Rhythm Of The Long, Low Run And ...
International Games Englishand
International Games - English And American Track Athletics The Story Of International Track Athletics Begins With The Early Eighties, When Several Of The Indi Vidual Athletes Who Had Been Developed By That Time In This Country Left Their Victories Behind Them And Set Out To Find New Worlds To Conquer. ...
Jumps And The Pole
Jumps And The Pole - Vault In The Jumping Events " Form " Is An Element Almost As Important As " Spring " And " Sand." A High Jumper Must Master The Technique Of Clearing The Bar If He Hopes To Do Justice To His Strength And Courage, And, Other ...
National Association Of Amateur
National Association Of Amateur Men The Tone And The Spirit Of The Great Revival Of Aquatic Sport That Followed The Civil War Was Largely Professional, And Although Amateur Clubs Were Springing Up All Over The Country, As Yet No Body Of Men Dared To Come Forward And Say Who Was ...
Organization Of The Clubs
Organization Of The Clubs Track Sports, Like Other Athletics, Have Tended Of Late Years To Become So Nearly Synonymous With College Track Sports, That The Work Of Non Collegiate Athletic Clubs In The Introduction And Furthering Of The Games Of Field And Cinder Path Has Been Obscured And Almost Forgotten, ...
Rowing Coaching
Rowing Coaching Coaching Of American Crews And Scullers Club And College Has Been For Years And Is To-day Entirely On A Professional Basis, And The Crews That Have Been Amateur Coached Can Almost Be Counted On One Hand. The Early Days Of College Rowing Had A Sim Plicity And ...
Rowing Equipment
Rowing Equipment The Mechanical Side Of Rowing the Boats, Their Model And Rigging Forms Of Itself No Inconsider Able Subject, And Since The Science Of Oarsmanship Is A Minute One, The Consideration Of All These Mechanical Aids To Speed Has Interest, And Can Only Be Well Treated At Length. ...
Rowing Style
Rowing Style From Those Outlines Of Style That Have Been Given In The Preceding Chapters It Will Be Appre Ciated That The American Oarsman Has Gone Nearly The Whole Gamut Of Rowing, And That Pre Tentious And Circumstantial Must Be Any Essay That Attempts Thoroughly To Trace The Develop Ment ...
Sprinting And American Sprinters
Sprinting And American Sprinters Sprinters Are Born And Not Made. The Making Helps, And Is Necessary, But The Gift Of Speed Must Be Born Into Them. Almost Any Youth With A Presentable Pair Of Legs, A Sound Heart And Lungs, Sand, And A Bit Of Fighting Edge Can, By Faithful ...
The Intercollegiate Rowing Association
The Intercollegiate Rowing Association The Inconvenience Of Saratoga As A Regatta Course, And The Fact That Rough Water Caused The Postponement Of The University Race For A Day And The Freshman Race For Two Days, Gave The Stewards Sufficient Reason For Taking The Races Back To Poughkeepsie, Where The Course ...
Track Athletics In The
Track Athletics In The Colleges The Colleges, Meanwhile, Somewhat Conserva Tive As They Had Been At First In Taking Up The New Sport, Had Long Been Pursuing It With Under Graduate Enthusiasm, And The Records, Poor Enough At First, Had Begun To Approach Within Striking Dis Tance Of The Figures ...
Training And The Rowing
Training And The Rowing Type Oarsmen Of These Days Have Little Idea Of The Torments Of The Flesh To Which Their Predecessors Submitted Themselves With The Idea That They Were Preparing To The Best Advantage For A Boat Race. The Styles Of Rowing Have Changed, But No Change Has Taken ...
Type Of Rowing Man
Type Of Rowing Man In The Days Of The Fixed Seat, When The Power Of The Stroke Came From The Shoulders And The Arms, The Oarsman Was Apt To Be A Great, Broad Chested Fellow, But With The Slide The Stroke Had So Many Changes And Called For So Much ...
Weights And Weight Throwers
Weights And Weight - Throwers Throwing The Weights Is A Game For Big Men. It Is Not A Sport In Which The Athlete Of Slender Build, However Wiry And Active He May Be, Can Successfully Indulge. A Big Frame And Plenty Of Beef Are A Necessity, And A Good Head ...
Yale And Harvard Rowing
Yale And Harvard Rowing Harvard And Yale Discovered A Year Earlier Than Cornell That The Hybrid English Stroke Would Not Do, And A Revolution Took Place In The Systems Of Each. " Bob " Cook Had Assumed The Whole Charge Of The Henley Trip Of Yale, And He Came Back ...