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...comes the first decisive test of the work done by our eleven this fall. In spite of the fact that injuries had rendered many of the most promising candidates for the team unfit for playing, Captain Holden had gotten together an eleven of which the University might be proud. But now at the last moment we are crippled sorely by the loss of Sears and Cumnock, whose services can ill be spared...
...have been playing and have given it up from laziness or some other equally good reason, to make their appearance again, in order that the foot-ball team which is doing such cred table work may not get into bad habits through lack of material against which it may test its prowess...
...year 1880, seven hundred and seventy-six men were physically examined. The strongest man out of this number showed in strength of lungs, back, legs, chest and arms, a grand total of 675.2. At the close of the summer term of the present year, the highest strength test recorded was 1272.8 and there were over two hundred men in college whose total strength test surpassed the highest test of 1880. This general gymnasium work is, therefore, reducing the one-sided development once so common with athletic specialists. It must not be forgotten, however, that there is a development peculiar...
...athletic sports, foot-ball is the best game to test a man physically. In the pushing and hauling, its jostling, trampling struggle for supremacy, few muscles of the body are inactive. In spite of the accidents attending this game, as at present played, no sport affords better opportunity for vigorous training. Though rowing contributes largely to the development of the back and legs, and slightly to the arms and chest, to the gymnasium and foot-ball training we must attribute much of the superb muscular development of rowing...
...simple factor, weight, height, and chest girths, could not be based a true estimate of ones physical condition. Realizing how much depends upon the proportion of the different parts of the body, he began his observations by an extended series of measurements. His next aim was to test the strength of the most important parts, for although as a rule, the girths of the different limbs represent the potential strength of their respective muscles, yet there are many exceptions, and the measurements have to be confirmed by an actual strength test. These trials were made by means of three spring...