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Identifier: athletictraining00orto (find matches)
Title: Athletic training for school boys
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Orton, George W., b. 1873, ed
Subjects: Athletics
Publisher: New York, American Sports Pub. Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ung up high behind. The knee should be flung up andforward and the foot should hit the ground when fully outstretched.It should not hang in the air, as is sometimes the case, for this ofcourse takes time and reduces the speed. The knee should not bebent when at full stride, for then the stride is shortened and againspeed is lost. The whole efTort of the body should be straightahead. The arms should work in unison with the body. If any-thing, the arm-and-body motion should precede the leg motion,thus accelerating the stride. If, as sometimes occurs, the legmotion precedes the arm-and-body motion, then the legs arehelping the arms and the full benefit of the arm-and-body is lost.Generally speaking, it may be said that the more nearly everymuscle in the body works together, the better. These remarkson form in sprinting apply with equal-force to the longer events. Sprinting is a very intense sport, and it is imperative that themind should be wholly bent on the work in hand. Every thought,
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Spaldings Athletic Library. 19 every muscle, should be bent on forward motion if the best resultsare to be obtained. THE START.The importance of the start in a 100 yard race can hardly beoverestimated. Almost every championship race hinges on thisfactor. Dufifey repeatedly won races through his wonderfulstarting. His quickness away from the mark and the marvellouscelerity with which he got into his running, often gave himsuch a lead at forty yards, that though his rivals closed thegap in the final stages of the race, they were not able tomake up the handicap due to their poorer starting. The final ofthe Intercollegiate championship 100 yards in 190^4 was won atthe start. Schick, of Harvard, got away well and at sixty yardshe was two yards ahead of Cartmell, of Pennsylvania. The latterfinished with a grand burst of speed and was beaten only twofeet. His inferior start had cost him the championship. It isthus necessary that starting should be practised assiduously. Theuniversal start no

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