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...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...
With the opening of the track season but a short time away, candidates for the Cornell track team are reporting in increasing numbers to Coach Jack Moakley. At first there was a marked scarcity of men in the sprints, weights and hurdles, but a vigorous appeal from the management brought fourth a large number of new men. The schedule has not been decided but will be much like last year's and will include the annual relay race with the University short distance team...
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...