PHYSICAL TRAINING.
| WILLIAM ALEXANDER LAMBETH, M. D., Ph. D., |
Director of the Gymnasium |
| HENRY HADEN LANNIGAN |
Associate Director of Athletics |
| ARTHUR GROMAUN NOEHREN |
Instructor in Physical Training |
| JOHN SPOTTSWOOD GRAVES, B. A. |
Assistant 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 light and heavy gymnastics, a one-twentieth mile
concave-inclined running track, a visitor's 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 arranged at such hours as not to conflict with other university
duties.
ATHLETICS.
The Athletic Park contains twenty-one acres, a part of which has
been laid out into a driving park, set with trees and hedges, and 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 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
exercises, while giving to the students, as far as is 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, except during vacation and holidays.
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 should not have contests elsewhere than upon the
university grounds with any teams except those 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 his application from
the Committee. It shall be the duty of the 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 Faculty Committee on Athletics 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 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.
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 apply also to all students who enter this university with less than
10 units.
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.[1]
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
eligible 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.
16. 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.[2]
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 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 decision as to the number of students of each
grade enrolled in said college.
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 by the Faculty 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 time he entered upon his first intercollegiate contest, omitting from the
calculation any 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.
