Word: sprinters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lathrop makes it his profession to train the candidates for the Mott Haven team. The success of this team forms an instructive contrast to the failure of our crews. Moreover, the trainer of the crew need not necessarily be an oarsman himself any more than Mr. Lathrop is a sprinter. An intelligent trainer can make himself master of the art of applying ones muscles to an oar without himself actually excelling in the art. Such a trainer might be sent to England to study the art of rowing in an eight oar; for it is reasonable to suppose that something...
...bring to the notice of the Harvard Athletic Association, through your columns, a suggestion which I trust may be acted upon. Any one who has used the board running track outside the gymnasium must have felt how inadequate it for the large numbers which make use of it. Sprinters, half mile runners, mile runners and working people manage to to congregate on the three and a half foot walk at about the same time, so that one has to regulate his pace to suit the crowd rather than the distance for which he training. Moreover it is no unusual thing...
...Tayler, '94, Hudson, Mass.; directors, S. P. Hunt, '93, Manchester; W. L. Burnap, '94, Burlington, Vt.; A. E. Carlton, '95, West Randolph, Vt.; G. G. Norris, '96, Melrose, Mass.; C. C. Goss. C. S. S. Pittsfield; H. S. Baketel, D. M. C. Henry C. Ide, Dartmouth's sprinter and full back, will manage the team, and F. H. O'Connor will be its captain. Candidates will go into training soon...
...expected that Swayne '95, Yale's sprinter, will return to college after Christmas...
Outing for May has a number of contributions which cannot but interest Harvard men. Malcolm W. Ford's article on "Sprinters and Their Methods," which occupies the place of honor, is an excellent exposition of sprinting as distinguished from long-distance running, and good descriptions are given of the foremost sprinters of the day, their modes of setting and starting, and methods of running. Among the athletes thus described are Wendell Baker '86, Luther Carey of Princeton, John Owen Jr.. of Detroit, F. Westing, and H. M. Johnson. Mr. Ford ends his article by giving some helpful hints...