Word: moakley
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...revival of athletics at Cornell is proceeding rapidly. Jack Moakley, the track coach, has a squad of over 150 candidates, including a few of last year's men, from which to build up a university team. The track men will probably have the use of the large drill hall, devoted until recent times to training aviators. This hall contains space or a big track, a straightaway, and also for a basketball court and other gymnasium equipment. The new hall, together with the out-door board track, the baseball cage and the Schoellkopf Field will give Cornell an athletic plant equal...
...also directed the training of the football teams, will enter national service within a few weeks. His work will consist largely in supervising the physical welfare of students of aviation. A number of other noted college coaches, among them Mack of Yale, Fitzpatrick of Princeton and Moakley of Cornell, are also to engage in this recently organized branch of war service...
Although Cornell has a lot of good material this year in the distance runs and in some of the field events, the society of good sprinters and hurdlers is going to make the task of building up another championship team more difficult than usual. When Moakley had Reller and Van Winkle he was reasonably certain of placing in one or both sprints, and with Starr and Gubb in college the Ithacans were amply protected in the hurdles. Now that all these men are gone, the university must depend on untried material. The most uncertain branches, on the track teak...
There will be no difficulty with the four-mile relay team if Moakley decides to have one for the Penn. Carnival. He has in Windnagle the best college miler in the East, and in Wenz, McDermott and Hudson, men nearly as good. In spite of the loss of three veterans, Cornell will have a strong quartet...
...addition to the relay teams, Moakley will use the winter meets to try out a number of this weight men, jumpers, vaulters, and hurdlers...