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Busy as he is, Mac still finds time for his favorite hobby - golf. A few years ago he made a dual-purpose pilgrimage to Scotland: to visit old Cumnock, the home of his ancestors, and to play at St. Andrews. In a Cumnock cemetery Mac almost stumbled over a fallen tombstone inscribed: "Here lies John McLatchie, died in 1797." It gave him a start, Mac says, to see his own name on a tombstone. On the Old Course at St. Andrews eight-handicap Golfer McLatchie, according to his diary, "shot an 84 with three birdies and a horrible...
...when the head of the Lawn Tennis Club asked him if he thought he could make some improvements on the deteriorated courts. Enright said he didn't think he could. But he undertook the job and shortly after, in 1887, the captain of the football team, an end named Cumnock, requested Enright's elevation to the post of grounds superintendent. Enright still can't figure out what they had against the man he succeeded...
There were no coaches until 1881, and then it was only spasmodic until Arthur Cumnock, of the Class of '91, got George Adams and George Stewart to start a coaching system at Harvard in 1890. Harvard won that year by 12 to 6. in spite of the fact that Yale boasted of the great Hefileilnger and Bum McClung (later Treasurer of the United States) on its team. Cumnock also appointed Dr. Bill Conant as ozar of the physical side of his team. and Jim Lathrop became the trainer...
Spring football was inaugurated also by Cumnock in 1882, and he installed the first tackling dummy ever faced by any squad. For the first time in football history the team at Springfield left the field between the halves for a medical going-over and rest in a temporary house erected just outside the grandstand. Yale, on seeing Harvard leave the field, betook themselves in the old and very cold barge which had brought them to the field...
Training had also been greatly improved. The spring of 1889 saw the first spring practice. Captain A. J. Cumnock '91 originated a crude, brutal machine which was the first tackling dummy used at Harvard. Dr. W. M. Conant '79 was made the team doctor and it was he who introduced the custom of the players' retiring from the field between the halves for rub-downs and medical attention...