 | University of Virginia record February, 1911 |  |
PHYSICAL TRAINING.
| WILLIAM ALEXANDER LAMBETH, M. D., Ph. D., | Director of the Gymnasium |
| HENRY HADEN LANNIGAN | Associate Director of Athletics |
| PEYTON MONCURE CHICHESTER, A. B., | Instructor in Physical Training |
The method of instruction pursued does not adhere blindly to any
system, so called. Proper recognition is given to any method the whole
or parts of which have been useful or which indicate efficiency; for, however
valuable any system may be, it cannot be maintained in its entirety
without the consideration of hereditary tendencies, and of individuality in
physical possibilities, physical conditions, and physical tastes. The plan
of individual training is encountered in every case, and especially where
an examination discloses the student's inability to pursue general or concerted
exercises, either from threatened injury on inability to profit by
such work.
Students, upon entering the university, are entitled, without cost, to
a thorough physical examination by the Director. The examination includes
an accurate measurement of his physical proportions, a careful examination
of the condition and action of the heart and lungs and the strength of
the principal muscular groups; at the same time information is solicited
concerning his heredity. Upon the basis of the information so gathered
instruction will be given as to particular exercises and the use of the
various developing appliances, as indicated. The examinations are repeated
at intervals, the changes noted and new work suggested, if desirable.
In addition to individual work, daily classes are given in light
gymnastics—marching, figure running, calisthenics, dumb-bells, and clubs,
adapted as nearly as possible to individuals of all ages and physical conditions.
The exercises are gradual and progressive, commencing with the
simplest movements and proceeding to the more complicated and arduous
when the more rudimentary forms have been mastered.
During the winter months gymnastics which require great strength
and agility are indulged in by those who are fitted for these classes by
previous training. This work, of admitted spectacular character (yet
having its usefulness), is terminated by an annual gymnastic tournament,
usually in the first half of March.
The faculty regulations on athletics require that members of the
university athletic teams shall give evidence of satisfactory physical conditions
by making the following strength tests when deemed necessary,
in addition to the regular physical examination: Members of the football
the baseball team a test of 1,100 points.
The points are reckoned as follows: The strength of back in pounds,
the strength of legs in pounds, strength of chest in pounds, strength of
forearms in pounds (pressure), added to one-tenth of the weight (in
pounds), multiplied by the number of times the body is lifted by the
upper arms.
The Fayerweather Gymnasium, the gift of Daniel Fayerweather, of
New York, is a handsome and commodious structure on classical lines,
situated on the eastern slope of Carr's Hill, overlooking the Athletic
Campus. The first floor contains a spacious exercise hall, equipped with
the best and most approved developing appliances, as well as apparatus
for light and heavy gymnastics, a one-twentieth mile concave-inclined
running track, a visitor's gallery, lavatory, trophy-room, and the various
offices. The basement floor is concrete throughout and contains the baths—
needle, shower, spray, tub, and plunge—supplied with both hot and cold
water; bowling alleys, ball-cage, boiler-room, lockers, locker-room, dressing-rooms,
and barber shop. The building is heated by a hot water system,
ventilated by airshafts, registers, and skylights, and lighted by gas and
electricity.
The gymnasium is open from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. every day except
Sunday. Attendance is voluntary and free of cost to every regularly
matriculated student. Classes are arranged at such hours as not to conflict
with other university duties.
The Athletic Park contains twenty-one acres, a part of which has
been laid out into a driving park, set with trees and hedges, containing
the site for the proposed Athletic Clubhouse. Two hundred thousand
surface feet have been perfectly graded, drained, and fenced for football,
baseball, and track work. This surface was completed at a cost of about
ten thousand dollars, and the removal of forty-eight thousand cubic yards
of earth. A grandstand and bleacher have been erected, each seating a
thousand persons. The work of turfing, protection, and decoration is
going steadily on, and will, it is estimated, cost ten thousand dollars more.
ATHLETICS.
Games and sports of all kinds are under the special direction of the
General Athletic Association, a student organization whose object is to
promote this class of physical exercises. The faculty, by means of its
committee on athletics, exercises a general advisory control, endeavoring
to foresee and avert dangerous tendencies or excess in physical exercises,
while giving to the students, as far as possible, entire liberty of management:
a strict limit is placed upon the character of intercollegiate games
and the number played away from the university.
REGULATIONS OF THE GENERAL FACULTY CONCERNING
ATHLETICS.
1. The Faculty Committee on Athletics is intrusted with the general oversight
of athletics, and is authorized to forbid any features in these exercises
which endanger the health or morals of the participants, and to foster the
true spirit of amateur sport among them.
2. No student shall play upon the university athletic teams except after
physical examination by the Director of the Gymnasium (or by a responsible
expert officer of the university acting in his stead and by his request) and with
the approbation of the Director.
3. Only students who act as regular or substitute members of the Athletic
teams will be granted leaves of absence to accompany them on trips away from
the university, except during vacation and holidays.
4. Special reports may be made to the president from time to time by any
minor faculty with respect to the class-standing and progress in study of each
regular and substitute player on the athletic teams, and if the president and
such faculty are convinced that his class-standing is discreditable, such student
may be required to sever his connection with such team.
5. The athletic teams should not have contests elsewhere than upon the
university grounds with any except teams from other institutions of learning.
6. Before any student can become a member or substitute member of any
athletic team in the university and take part in any intercollegiate contest, he
shall make application in a prescribed form in writing to the Faculty Committee
on Athletics, and secure the endorsed approval of the committee to his application.
It shall be the duty of the Athletic Committee to have the executive
officers of the university endorse such application to the effect that the applicant
is an unconditionally registered student of the university.
7. It shall be the duty of the Athletic Committee to inquire into and make
a record of the athletic experiences of the applicant, and it shall be the duty
of the applicant to appear before the Committee and answer on his honor such
questions as the Committee may see fit to ask.
8. It shall be the duty of the Athletic Committee, before it endorses an
application, to require a pledge in writing of the applicant certifying on his
honor that he has never accepted directly or indirectly remuneration, compensatory
gift, valuable consideration or the promise thereof for or on account
of his athletic services, and that he is in the proper and strict sense of the
word an amateur athlete.
9. No student who has been a member or a substitute member of a football
or baseball team of another college or university shall be permitted to become
a member of either team of this university during his first session; but in no
case shall such student be eligible for these teams at this university unless he
shall have been a student here at least five months. The above provision shall
also apply to all students who enter this university with less than 10 units.[1]
10. No person whose name appears in the catalogue list of officers of instruction
and administration of the university, and who receives remuneration therefrom,
shall be a member of any athletic team representing the university.
11. It shall be the duty of the President of the Athletic Association, the
Executive Committee of that Association, the Manager and the Captain of the
team concerned, the Director of the Gymnasium, the Associate Director of
Athletics, and the Treasurer of the Association, to furnish, on request, a statement
to the effect that each member of an athletic team is above their suspicion
as to his eligibility to represent the university as a proper amateur player, before
such player shall be allowed to take part in any contest.
12. No "coach," not an alumnus, and no "trainer," not an officer of the
university, shall be employed for the purpose of instructing or training any
athletic team in this university.[2]
13. The Faculty Committee on Athletics is authorized and instructed to
establish a maximum period after which a player on a team representing any
branch of athletic sport at this or any other university or college shall be
ineligible to become a member of any athletic team of this university.
14. The Faculty Committee on Athletics is directed to assume responsible
charge of the details of the Athletic situation and to permit the playing of
intercollegiate games with such colleges only as express a general conformity
with the code of rules adopted by this faculty.
15. The members of any athletic team may be allowed not more than eight
days leave of absence from the university for the purpose of engaging in
athletic contests; but no student who is a member of more than one athletic
team shall be allowed more than sixteen days leave of absence during the entire
session for such purpose.
This rule went into effect September, 1908. It does not, however, apply to
such students as entered this university under our previous "five months' residence
rule."
The Faculty Committee on Athletics may permit the employment of coaches
other than alumni for a period not exceeding two weeks for any one individual
during any one season. But in no case shall such coach be in responsible charge
of the team.
REGULATIONS OF FACULTY COMMITTEE ON ATHLETICS.
1. "Training Tables" for football, baseball and track teams are hereby
abolished.
2. No student of this university shall be eligible for any athletic team who
shall have played upon, or been a member or substitute member of, any of the
professional or league teams named in Classes A, B, C, and D, in the publication
of the American Sports Company.
To the list of professional teams thus prescribed shall be added all league
teams in any state or states, which the leading university of such state or
states declares professional and from which it debars its own players.
3. The term "college" as used in the Faculty Regulations concerning athletics
is hereby interpreted to mean any college named in Table 28 of the Report of
the U. S. Commissioner of Education of 1902, which has not less than 150
male students of collegiate grade recorded in the catalogue of the institution
in question as students of the session preceding the applicant's entrance into
this University.
In case such faculty fails to distinguish between students of collegiate and
preparatory grade, the president of the college concerned shall be requested to
render or to authorize an official decision of the members belonging to each head.
4. The term "substitute" is interpreted to mean a student who has taken
part in an intercollegiate contest.
5. The term "general conformity," as used in the faculty regulations, is
interpreted to mean conformity in regard to period of residence, maximum
period of eligibility and amateur standing.
6. The maximum period of eligibility for baseball and football shall be four
years. In estimating the period of eligibility the years of baseball and football
shall both be taken into account; but in no case shall a player be charged with
four years' athletic work, unless at least four calendar years have elapsed from
the time he entered upon his first intercollegiate contest, omitting from the calculation
and sessional intermission by non-attendance.
In case the player does not participate in either baseball or football during
a college session, such session shall not be counted, but if such player does
play on either the baseball or the football team during any intermediate session,
this shall count as if the player had played on both teams during such session.
College Topics is a semi-weekly newspaper, published under the
auspices of the General Athletic Association, devoted to the interests of
athletics and the university at large.
Robert Brooke Albertson.
| University of Virginia record February, 1911 | |