 | The University of Virginia record February 1, 1918 |  |
PHYSICAL TRAINING.
| William Alexander Lambeth, M.D., Ph.D. | Director of the Gymnasium |
| Henry Haden Lannigan | Associate Director of Athletics |
| Fletcher Drummond Woodward | Instructor in Physical Training |
| Frank Wesley Davies | 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 points are reckoned as follows: Strength of back in pounds, 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 situated on the eastern slope of
Carr's Hill. The first floor contains a spacious exercise hall, equipped with the
best and most approved developing appliances, as well as with apparatus for
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. The building is heated by hot water, 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 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 133.
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 Clubhouse,
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 ten 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 on 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.
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, 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.[1]
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, with the exception of the Thanksgiving
Day game with the University of North Carolina in Richmond, which may be
continued until such time as can be agreed upon by the authorities of the
universities of North Carolina and Virginia.
19. "Training Table" 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 any college named in Table 28 of the
Report of the United States Commissioner of Education of 1902, 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, 1918 | |