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Show By KENT BOYD Chronicle Sports Editor As you have been walking between be-tween classes, while the changing chang-ing autumn leaves flutter from the trees and a brisk fall breeze chills the air, you may have thought it peculiar to see two or three campus cam-pus athletes clad in shorts and "TRACK" sweatshirts whisk by in a sudden flurry. You may wonder why these athletes are so far ahead in their training. After all, isn't track supposed to be a "Spring" J sport? WE ARE USED to thinking of a particular sport in relation to the season in which it is played foot-i foot-i ball in the fall, basketball in the winter, baseball in the spring. But we are entering the era now in which most sports have to be considered con-sidered as year-round sports. The time when an athlete could be tops in many different areas is rapidly coming to a close. If one examines the records which are being made in the field of sports today, he finds that these records have been ma.de through an almost super-human effort. Have you ever measured seven feet in the air and .considered how amazing it is that someone has ever cleared that height at a single jump? Have you thought how fast a four-minute mile is as you chug along between classes and have to frequently stop because of lack of breath? The records that are being made in this modern age are a result of strict and constant conditioning. The athletes who are breaking almost impenetrible terriers ter-riers on the record books are doing so as a result of many long and hard hours in practice. And so we find the athletes at the University conditioning themselves them-selves far in advance of the time when we will openly view the results re-sults of their efforts. The fine display dis-play of talent and desire on the part of our football team this season sea-son is directly proportional to the training which they underwent during dur-ing the spring and summer. And the outcome of basketball, track, baseball, and other team games and events will be determined in a large part by the training which they are receiving now. THIS MIGHT give us the incentive incen-tive to consider the athlete, especially espe-cially on this campus, as someone who is devoted and willing to "put out" in his activities. Certainly this required more than just a superficial effort at the time of the game he must be conditioned before the game and must be determined deter-mined to give his best well in advance ad-vance of the event. So the next time someone brushes brush-es you by in a mad dash up the hill, you might note that this is evidence of the person's desire to give his full effort in preparation for the event. All this will show up when we finally see him next spring at a track meet or baseball game. |