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Show ANOTHER AMERICAN TO TRAIN EUROPEANS The unofficial but Beml -authoritative statement that Al Copeland, the former Yale and Princeton athletic trainer and an all-around athlete in his day, has been selected to train the Austrian track and field team for the Olympic games of 1906 at Berlin, adds another to the growing grow-ing list of famous American athletes and tralnors who are being engaged to. coach foreign teams for competition against the United States entrieB three years hence. Copeland follows Ernie Hjertberg, who is under contract to Sweden, and Alvin Kraenzleln, who will train thb, Gorman athletic coaches and athletes. France, Belgium and Grocce ore aloo considering consider-ing similar moves, and even England may engago ono of the Americanized-English Americanized-English athletes to help in tho reorganization reorgan-ization of hor team, now that the Olympic Olym-pic fund has passed tho $50,000 mark. |