Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captain of the University track team for 1925, H. T. Dunker '25, who is now head proctor of Little Hall and one of the coaches for the 1929 football team, was elated over Coach Farrell's appointment. "The football team will benefit incalculably," said Dunker. "Coach Farrell will bring to it a spirit which is exactly the suppliment needed for the excellent technical training given to the men by Coach Fisher...
Yesterday afternoon, Coach E. L. Farrell began the work of two men, when he assumed the task of whipping the cross-country team into shape, while at the same time undertaking the duties of trainer to the football team. The methods which Coach Farrell employs in keeping his track men in trim promise to be of equal value to the gridiron candidates...
When W. J. Bingham '16, coach of the University track team in 1921 and 1922, heard of the appointment of Coach Farrell as trainer to the football team, he said, "Eddie Farrell has a spirit to impart to the football team which may be invaluable. For the last two years he has imbued it in the track team, I believe that he is now coming into his own, as his success in the coming track season will prove...
...possesses a keen insight into the workings of a boy's mind, and this quality will enable him to spur football players as ably as track men. He has, too the advantage of long experience in training men. Twice he has been one of the coaches for the American Olympic team, following his trip in 1912 as a member of the team. I am exceedingly glad of his appointment for he is bound to be a great asset to football...
...every man who comes out for track he gives something quite as valuable as can be gained elsewhere in college, something quite equal in value to anything that any professor can give. This gift of great value is training. It is not for facts that we come to college, but for training. If a man receives that training, it matters not at all whether he is given it on the playing field or in the classroom. Everyman of whom Eddie Farrell makes something worthwhile, is possessed of the ability of giving better than his best when he is called upon...