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THE TRACK TEAM.
Captain Bascom Johnson ‘Tells of
His Plans for the Season.
The season of the University Track
Team of Ninety-Nine was a long and
very arduous one. Starting with the
training for the Fall games in October
it continued well into the Winter with
the cross country gwork. After a short
respite, the regula#§season opened Feb-
ruary 1, and did not really close until
July 22, in London at the International
games.
It seemed wise, therefore, to give
the members of last year’s team a rest
from all hard work until the regular call
for candidates was made shortly after
the Promenade. It was thought best to
abandon the usual Fall games held in
October for the reason that young and
inexperienced Freshmen who make up
the bulk of Fall candidates are likely to
be injured by too great a strain after
so short a period of training. :
In order, however, to obtain some line
on the material in the Freshman class,
every encouragement was given them to
join the ranks of the Cross Country
Club, newly organized and put on a firm
basis. The work of this Club is two-
fold. It provides opportunities for the
absolute novice as well as for the trained
athlete. ‘To accomplish this, two general
_ squads were formed. The first carried
on a more severe system of training,
meant for the experienced runner, and
with the definite purnose of developing
a team to represent the Club at the In-
tercollegiate Cross Country champion-
ships held in New York in November.
The second squad was formed on
much simpler lines and was meant for
any and all who desired some light and
invigorating form of outdoor exercise.
The work of the Club was continued
in all its departments throughout the
Fall term and was found exceedingly
beneficial and pleasant to all its mem-
bers, a good proportion of whom were
novices. This Club should do a great
deal to recreate at Yale that bygone
spirit of healthy outdoor life which is
now confined almost entirely to the Uni-
versity teams and their candidates. By
its very nature, such a club cannot but
be of great service to the Track Team
in bringing out and developing other-
wise unheard-of candidates. It is there-
fore of vital importance to the success
of both that the two organizations work
in perfect harmony.
PLANS OF THE FUTURE.
The Fall season for the track candi-
dates having passed by so pleasantly
and profitablv, an interval of two months
was granted and work began once more
January 29, when a call for candidates
was made. :
Mr. James Robinson, Coach of the
Eleven, has been engaged as professional
trainer and will have complete charge of
this department. Mr. Flanagan, the
champion amateur hammer thrower of
the world, has taken up his residence in
this city and has very kindly offered to
take charge of the weight men for a
couple of months in return for the use
of the gymnasium and its training facil-
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The graduate coaching system used so
successfully in connection with the foot-
ball and baseball teams will also be
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gradually introduced as far as possible
in connection with track work. The
graduates will not take the place of a
trainer, but will aid the latter, who has
long found it an almost impossible task
to do justice to the two hundred odd
candidates who respond to the Captain’s
call. A few graduates have already in-
dicated their willingness to return and
it is hoped that others will come and
help in developing and sorting of this
great mass of material.
The men have already been divided
into squads according to their events.
It will be the general policy to give
the candidates as much out of door
work as possible, as the indoor running
has been found to give bad results to
many — stiffening the muscles. and
straining the ankles. In line with this
policy Yale will not send individual run-
ners or relay teams to any of the numer-
ous indoor Winter meets.
The management has decided to in-
stitute a first and second training table
this year somewhat on the lines of those
of the football team. By this means,
more men can have the advantage of
good food and a graduated and flexible
system of classification of candidates
formed.
At» present writing, negotiations are
still going on in regard to the holding
of a set of return International games
in this country. In spite of some tem-
porary hitch in the arrangements it
seems likely that the games will yet be
arranged and the combined team of Eng-
lishmen from Oxford and Cambridge
will become the guests of Yale and Har-
vard. Bascom JOHNSON.
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W. Bourke Cochran to Speak.
Dean Francis Wayland has announced
that Hon. W. Bourke Cochran of New
York will be the speaker at the Com-
mencement exercises of the Law School
next June.
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page 186.
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