Word: strains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...condition, so that when the race came they were quite unable to do themselves justice, and were badly beaten by both Cornell and Yale. Part of this was undoubtedly due to the harmful effect of the climate, while part may have come from overwork and inability to stand the strain of the very long body swing...
...technical to be clear. The author advocates the plan of having medical advisers supervise the training of athletes--supplementing, though not supplanting, the work of the professional trainer. It sometimes happens that men go into university athletics which require more strength than they have, and the over-exertion and strain produces permanent physical injury. Dr. Darling believes that systematic medical examination, conjoined with the present strength tests, would aid the trainer in finding out the causes for "staleness" among athletes, might detect its approach in time to prevent it; and would, moreover, detect among men in athletics any organic weaknesses...
Harvard took the ball slowly down the field into Pennsylvania's territory and the strain began to tell on the players. Thomas was taken out and Ludes was sent in at Pennsylvania's left end. Lawrence was substituted for Cutts at Harvard's right tackle...
Matters of diet, exercise and general training, too, are much less carefully guarded than in America. There can be no doubt according to Mr. Corbin, that our system puts too great a strain on one set of nerves and muscles, in such sports as running, at least; a fact which results in staleness long before the body as a whole reaches its highest condition. "Still," he continues, "as far as results are concerned our methods, taken by and large, are undoubtedly better. Mr. Horan, president of the Cambridge team that ran against Yale in 1895, made a careful study...
...year has not been as hard as in former years, which was perhaps fortunate, considering the continuous bad weather. Lately, however, the team has successfully come through a number of hard games, which should serve to season the men well, although none of them has furnished anything like the strain of a Yale game...