Word: pooch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidates for the fall track season of five weeks will report tomorrow at 2.30 o'clock at the Locker Building on Soldiers Field. Coach Eddie Farrell is to be in charge of the work, assisted by Pooch Donovan. The cinder track inside of the Stadium will be available for daily use while the field event men will practice on Soldiers Field and, in bad weather, in the cage. Although the work will, in the main, be for conditioning and developing the men, two meets, one on October 27 between the men in the Freshman dormitories, and the other on November...
...harries will this year be under the tutelage of "Pooch" Donovan. Captain Bemis will least the pack over the Belmont course at least two afternoons a week in preparation for the stiff schedule of five meets. Practice runs will otherwise be held on the Parkway around Soldiers Field...
...University will begin Monday at 3.30 o'clock, when all men interested will meet at the Locker Building, Soliders Field. At this meeting the men will be addressed by W. J. Bingham '16, former University star, and recently appointed to take the place of Dr. Charles Whelan. "Pooch" Donovan, "Eddie" Farrell, D. F. O'Connell '21, University track captain, and F. G. Bemis '22, cross-country track captain, will also speak...
...cause of so poor a season may be summed up in four points. First, the lack of a smooth-running coaching staff; second, the illness of Coach "Pooch" Donovan throughout the greater part of the spring term; third, the great scarcity of second and third place material; and last, the loss of men because of probation. The first of these can, and it is felt will be, remedied by those in charge of the track work. The second cause was unavoidable, but the last two reflect on the undergraduate body itself. Indifference and poor spirit were shown during the entire...
...Whelan was appointed last March to take general charge of the track work, especially the organizing and developing of the Freshmen, although "Pooch" Donovan was still retained as the regular coach. While here Dr. Whelan introduced many innovations, such as practicing before mirrors and studying slow speed motion pictures of national stars in action. He also assisted in the actual coaching work...