 | The University of Virginia record February 15, 1922 |  |
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.S., M.A. | Instructor in Physical Training |
| Benton Brooks Owen | Instructor in Physical Training |
| Frederick Virginius Watkins | 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 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 concaveinclined
running track, a visitors' gallery, lavatory, trophy room, and various offices.
(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 135.
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.
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]
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
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
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 in this university.
This shall not be interpreted as excluding alumni who 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 15, 1922 | |