 | The University of Virginia record February 1, 1921 |  |
PHYSICAL TRAINING.
| William Alexander Lambeth, M.D., Ph.D. | Director of Physical Training |
| William Rice Warren, B.A., M.D. | Professor of Physical Training |
| Henry Haden Lannigan | Associate Director of Athletics |
| Frank Wesley Davies, B.A. | Assistant Instructor in Physical Training |
| Benton Brooks Owen | Assistant Instructor in Physical Training |
| Frederick Virginius Watkins | Assistant Instructor in Physical Training |
The method of instruction pursued does not follow blindly any so-called
system, but proper attention is given to all methods which in whole
or in part have proved useful or effective. The importance of individual
training is in every case recognized, especially where an examination discloses
the student's inability to pursue with safety or profit general or
concerted exercises.
Students are entitled, without cost, to a thorough physical examination
by the director, and are urged to avail themselves of this privilege
soon after they enter the University. The examination includes an accurate
measurement of the student's physical proportions, a careful examination
of the condition and action of the heart and lungs, and the
strength of the principal muscular groups. Upon the basis of the facts
thus ascertained, advice is given as to particular exercises and the use of
various developing appliances. The examination is repeated at intervals,
note is taken of any improvement, and new exercises are suggested.
In addition to individual work, daily instruction is given to classes
in light gymnastics—marching, figure-running, calisthenics, dumb-bells,
and clubs—adapted as nearly as possible to the needs of individuals of
varying age and physical condition. The exercises are gradual and progressive,
commencing with the simplest movements and proceeding to
others more complicated and difficult.
During the winter months instruction in gymnastics which require
great strength and agility is given to those who are fitted for it by previous
training. This work is terminated by an annual gymnastic tournament
held usually in the early part of March.
The faculty regulations on athletics require that members of the university
athletic teams shall give evidence of satisfactory physical condition
by passing in doubtful cases a strength test, in addition to the regular
physical examination. For members of the football teams, 1,300
points are required; for members of the baseball team, 1,100 points.
The Fayerweather Gymnasium, the gift of Daniel Fayerweather, of
New York, is a handsome and commodious structure situated on the
eastern slope of Carr's Hill. The first floor contains a spacious exercise
hall, equipped with the best developing appliances, as well as
with apparatus for light and heavy gymnastics, a one-twentieth mile concave-inclined
running track, a visitors' gallery, lavatory, trophy room,
and various offices. The basement floor is concrete throughout and contains
hot and cold baths (needle, shower, spray, tub, and plunge), bowling
alleys, ball cage, boiler room, lockers, locker room, and dressing rooms.
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 is free of cost to every student.
Classes are held at hours which do not conflict with other university duties.
For the course in Physical Training with credit value for the B.A.
and B.S. degrees, see page 131.
ATHLETICS.
The Athletic Park contains twenty-one acres, and includes two athletic
fields, Lambeth Field and Lefevre Field, as well as a driving park,
set with trees and hedges and containing the site for the proposed Athletic
Club-house, which is now in process of erection. 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 fifty thousand dollars, and involved the removal of forty-eight
thousand cubic yards of earth. A concrete stadium has been erected,
seating eight thousand persons.
Games and sports of all kinds are under the special direction of the
General Athletic Association, a student organization whose object is to
encourage this phase of physical exercise. 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 exercise,
while giving to the students, as far as possible, entire liberty of
management. A strict supervision is maintained over the character of
intercollegiate games, and the number of these which may be played
away from the University is definitely limited.
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.
4. Special reports may be made to the President from time to time
by any departmental 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 shall not have contests elsewhere than upon
the university grounds with any teams except those from other institutions
of learning.
6. To be eligible for an intercollegiate athletic contest an applicant
must be a bona fide student who is pursuing a course of at least ten hours
of undergraduate work or a course of study certified by the proper faculty
authority.
7. Before any student can 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 his application
from the committee. It shall be the duty of the Faculty Athletic
Committee to have the executive officers of the University endorse such
application to the effect that the applicant is a registered student of the
University.
8. It shall be the duty of the Faculty Committee on Athletics to inquire
into and make a record of the athletic experiences of the applicant,
who shall appear before the committee and answer on his honor such
questions as the committee may see fit to ask.
9. It shall be the duty of the Faculty Committee on Athletics, before
it endorses an application, to require of the applicant a written
pledge, 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.
10. No student shall participate in any intercollegiate football, baseball,
basketball or track contest during his first college year, and in no
case shall a student be eligible for these teams unless he shall have been
a resident student for at least six months. If a student has participated
in any intercollegiate contest at another college, he shall not be eligible
in the same branch of sport at this institution his first succeeding session.
11. No person who has participated in intercollegiate football, baseball,
basketball or track contests for four sessions, consecutive or not, is
eligible; provided, that his total time of participation in these sports shall
not include more than five college years.
12. No student who is receiving from the University remuneration
for teaching or administrative services shall be eligible for the university
teams.
13. 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.
14. No coach or trainer who is not an officer of the University shall
be employed for the purpose of instructing or training any athletic team
act as assisting coaches.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Not more than four days' leave of absence from the University
shall be given to those First-Year Athletic teams which are regularly organized
by the General Athletic Association.
18. The football team is permitted to play games only on the home
grounds of one of the contestants.
19. "Training Tables" for football, baseball, basketball and track
teams are hereby abolished.
20. No student of this university shall be eligible for any athletic
team who has 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 proscribed 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.
21. The term "college" as used in the Faculty Regulations concerning
athletics is hereby interpreted to mean the U. S. Military Academy,
Naval Academy, or any institution which confers a baccalaureate degree
and which has not less than 150 male students of at least 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 catalogue 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 statement as to the
number of college students.
22. The term "substitute" is interpreted to mean a student who has
taken part in an intercollegiate contest.
23. The term "general conformity," as used in the Faculty Regulations,
is interpreted by the faculty to mean conformity in regard to period
of residence, maximum period of eligibility and amateur standing.
| The University of Virginia record February 1, 1921 | |