Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conditioning classes at indoor Athletic Building 11:15, 12:15, 5:00, Coaches Fradd, Harper, Cox and Parker; Crow at Nowell Boat House from 2:00 to 5:00, Coaches Bolles, Haines, and Love; Cross Country at Dillon Field House, 1:00 to 5:30, Coach Mikkoia...
...knees, sprained ankles, and sprained shoulders are the most common injuries, at least from Cox's experience. To care for these and other injuries, Jimmy and his assistants, whom he swears by, have a plethora of machines and devices to work with. Assistant trainer Eddie Noonan, Hal Knowlton, Ed Anderson, Joe Murphy (the x-ray man), and Al Palladino are the associates, and combined with the ample equipment, they make the Dillon Medical plant one of the finest among college field houses...
When all of the above methods of curing fail, and a player is deemed unfit for contact work, he becomes a "cripple" and joins the special rehabilitation group. To get these men back into the lineup as quickly as possible, Cox employs a set of exercises specially tailored to fit the particular requirements of each man. Shoulder cases, for example, are put to work doing pushups until finally they are able to walk around on their hands...
Although trainer and team doctor must be on the bench for all games and contact scrimmages, both Cox and Doctor Quigley are generally liberal about letting surface-injury victims go back into the fray. Open gashes, which bother some spectators, are stitched up right on the bench, adhesive tape is slapped over the wound and the player rushed back into the game if he's needed. "Professional hockey players aren't the only ones who compete with stitches in them." says Cox, "but the whole thing is pretty ugly business and we don't like to talk much about...
Although injuries have become an accepted part of the game, often tipping the scales of victory and defeat with embarrassing results, fatalities in collegiate football today are rare. Trainer Jimmy Cox, who remembers when Varsity medical equipment consisted of a "bottle of horse linament, a roll of tape and a tub," credits improved training methods, specialized protective equipment like the modern helmet, and stricter medical checkups with lowering the deathrate. "Nowadays," observe the Varsity trainer, "boys with weak hearts and other boys who should never be allowed on a football field are ruled out at the start...