XXXII. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL CULTURE AND ATHLETICS OFFICERS OF INSTRUCTION AMOS ALONZO STAGG, A.B., Professor and Director of the Department of Physical Culture and Athletics. DUDLEY BILLINGS REED, A.B., M.D., Associate Professor of Physical Culture and Medical Examiner (Men). GERTRUDE DUDLEY, Assistant Professor of Physical Culture. JOSEPH HENRY WHITE, Assistant in Physical Culture. JOSEPHINE E. YOUNG, M.D., Medical Examiner (Women). STATEMENT OF WORK GENERAL In so far as it is the function of education to train the growing individual for usefulness in life, to that extent physical education must demand attention in any proper scheme of educational work, since the capacity for usefulness is so largely determined by the physical health of the individual. This Department is organized to supply the opportunity for such physical work as experience has shown to be necessary under modern conditions, to counteract the deleterious individual effects of close application to mental work and to favor the attainment by the individual student of a high state of physical efficiency. The work of this Department is organized under these heads: (a) Hygienic: (1) to aid function; (2) to develop form; (3) to correct undeveloped or deformed parts. (b) Educative: (1) to perfect nervous control; (2) to gain mental and moral self-control; (3) to develop muscular strength and endurance. (c) Recreative. In order that these needs may be adequately supplied a large variety of work-hygienic, recreative, corrective, and competitive-is offered in regularly organized classes, in both gymnastics and athletics. Large opportunities are offered for individual work outside of the class organization, and provision is made for advice and assistance in such work. Class work in Physical Culture is required of all undergraduate students not excused on account of physical disability, during four half-hours a week. Six quarters' work in Physical Culture is required of Junior College students, and four quarters of Senior College students. A temporary adjustment of this requirement has been made for the women till such a time as adequate equipment is provided for their work. Students taking an excessive number of cuts will not be allowed to continue their University work until they conform to this requirement. It is intended that a thorough physical examination shall preface the work of every student in physical training. This examination is required for undergraduate matriculants and is advised for graduates during the first two weeks of their first quarter in residence. On the basis of information gained from this examination, suggestions for work and advice on health topics will be given each individual by the Medical Examiner. During their first quarter in residence all Freshmen are required to take a course in Hygiene, one hour per week, consisting of lectures, recitations, and examination. No one will be permitted to study for four consecutive quarters in the University, or to do extra normal work, i.e., more than three courses per quarter, without first obtaining a statement from the Medical Examiner to the effect that the extra work may be attempted without a probable injury to the health of the student. WORK FOR WOMEN The plan of work is threefold: general class work, elective athletic work, and corrective work. The general class work consists of tactics, free standing, hand and heavy apparatus work, fancy steps, and gymnastic games. This work is graded elementary, intermediate, and advanced, thus offering the students a change of work from year to year. The corrective work is given under special supervision to all those who are in need of remedial work, and also to those who are unable to do the regular class work. The athletic work, which is elective, is taken in combination with the class work-two periods of each a week-in order that the student by this combination may obtain the best possible development. This work, which is done under the direction of the Department, includes in the different seasons basket-ball, indoor and outdoor baseball, field and ring hockey, roller- and ice-skating, tennis, golf, rowing, fencing, and swimming. The competitive side of the work is developed by match games during the year, culminating in the annual championship games for the silver cup and the banner between the Junior and Senior College teams, and with tournaments in the other sports and an annual gymnastic contest. WORK FOR MEN In addition to the regular graded gymnastic work a certain part of which consists of work in gymnastic dancing and group games, elementary instruction is given in swimming, wrestling, and fencing in large classes. These groups are later subdivided for more advanced work. Teams for intercollegiate competition are organized in football, baseball, track and field athletics, basket-ball, swimming, wrestling, fencing, tennis, and golf. Class and department teams are organized in as many lines of competition as possible and schedules arranged to decide class and University championships. Contests to decide the individual all-around championship are conducted annually in each of the following: swimming, wrestling, fencing, and gymnastics. Faithfulness and intelligence in training and practice count for more in securing places on the University teams than individual brilliancy and natural ability alone. BUILDINGS Lexington Gymnasium.--The Lexington Hall Gymnasium is a temporary structure, built in the winter of 1903 for the use of women students. It offers an unobstructed floor space, 70 by 71 feet, is partially equipped with new apparatus, and is provided with lockers, dressing-rooms, shower baths, and offices. In Ida Noyes Hall, in process of building, will be provided a modern gymnasium for women. Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium.-The Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium, a memorial to Frank Dickinson Bartlett, has been in use since the Autumn Quarter of 1903. It was formally dedicated on January 29, 1904. The building, with equipment, cost over $275,000. It is 200 feet long by 80 feet wide. The basement floor contains four large dressing-rooms for the University and visiting teams, shower baths, Turkish baths, rubbing-room, stock-room, vaults, and special class rooms for fencing and wrestling. The first floor has space for 1,500 lockers, 25 shower baths, a swimming-tank, Faculty exercising-room, and offices. The swimming-tank is 60 by 28 feet-a very convenient size for conducting swimming races. It is beautifully fitted up with white tile. A gallery with seats for 200 people overlooks the water. The second or top floor is the exercisingroom; it extends over the whole building, and is entirely free from pillars. A running-track varying in width from 12 feet 6 inches to 16 feet 6 inches, with 13.4 laps to the mile, extends around the walls twelve feet above the floor. The gymnasium has been equipped with the best and most modern apparatus, a large part of which is new in design and was made especially for this building. Provision has been made by multiplying pieces of apparatus for the exercising of large squads of men at one time with the smallest loss of time to the individual. A large triple batting-cage has been installed for winter baseball practice, and bleachers which will accommodate 1,500 persons have been built for use at athletic meets. GROUNDS For women.-(a) Outdoor Gymnasium. A turfed field, 90 by 60 feet, adjoins the Lexington Gymnasium, and is used when the weather permits for class work and gymnastic games. (b) The Hockey field at Sixtieth Street and Greenwood Avenue affords space for two hockey courts. For men.-(a) The Athletic Field includes two city squares and is fully equipped for all kinds of squad and competitive work. A concrete grandstand, 480 feet long and 50 feet high, and a wall surrounding the Athletic Field have just been completed, at a cost of $200,000. Under the stand are toilet rooms and a racquet court to which are to be added locker rooms, baths, team rooms, squash and handball courts. In addition to the above fields and courts there are thirty-one tennis courts on the campus, which are used by both men and women students. These were built from receipts from the athletic games. |
