| Show wr ano IT TAKES no subtle expert to understand der stand that in the maj majority arity of c cases a ses that condition Is one ot of the essential requirements in the making of a champion but there are many arguments m ants as to how one reaches condition along the surest road no I 1 any very revolutionary ideas about the training of 0 young athletes athlete I 1 ask them to be sensible and temperate in their eating and adopt regular habits tor for sleep and exercise it if the average youngster will live a normal life eat wholesome foods and be regular in his every day habits there going grantland rice nice to be very much r wrong with him the speaker was dean B cromwell famous track and field beld coach at the university of southern california teams have won so many track championships that the experts have almost quit trying to keep track rack of them I 1 found dean cromwell at historic bovard field on tae trojan earn campus pus the field which has sent six football ball tea teams ms to the rose bowl without defeat the field which has been the proving ground tor for countless national and olympic champions of the cinder path the field which has turned out several prominent base bailers now performing in the major and minor leagues mr air cromwell Is always there no matter what the s season eason of course howard jones attends to the football and sam barry r y bosses the base but the venerable dean now in his bis thirty second year at troy keeps a weather eye on all the athletes A few angles we were re very fortunate here in of southern U he m california continued coach coach cro cromwell amwell in that the foods grown so close at hand plus the fine sunshine provide most of the vit vitamins a mins so necessary to good health for growing youngsters the boys come fro from average homes w where here for years they th ey have been e eating at I 1 ng the right kind of food if a boy bay has been drinking tea or coffee and be comes to me a healthy youngster im not going to tell him to quit it if a boy has been a big milk drinker and hes heb sound ph phyll asi cally I 1 dont change his diet even if some coaches declaim da do claim that drinking milk Is bad tor for the wind coach training orders sound simple but there happens to be more than he reveals he sets his foot down hard on overwork marly in early season faly y many years ago we had bad our to hip ter fraternity meets early each season said the dean 1 I found that the athletes who did exceptionally well in these december meets generally were beaten later to in the year by those who had been taking it easy at the start right then 1 I barred my best athletes from rom these inter fraternity meets and ive been doing it ever since we just coast along tor for six or eight weeks building up stamina and leading a normal life when the big tests come in lat late spring and midsummer 1 I generally gener aUy find my boys in pretty good shape rivals to in the coaching business will add a fervent amen to th this 1 9 statement his trojans have won 9 of the 13 N C A A meets in which they have competed in eluding the last 6 straight taken top honors to in the 1 I 0 4 A the last 7 times they entered and whip whipped ped stanford tn in I 1 11 1 out of th the last 12 dual meets to aay say nothing of t bagging several pacific coast conference crowns not lor for the boys cromwell the recent emphasis on eastern indoor meets is bad on the college runners says it is all right for the A A V U and rhe promoters who cut up the mount ang ing gate receipts but states that the boys who are bearing down 11 to january and february on the boards are put to too great a strain by having to be in shape clear through the suimei summer tor for outdoor competition YOU TOD can caa bring your athletes to peak only iw tw or three times during daring a season 11 continue di the dean and these occasions oci asio must most nt not be too far apat apart I 1 asked coach Croin cromwell well what world record he thought would be broken next the high jump he be returned and we may have just the boy to turn the trick the record isnow is now 8 6 feet 8 inches johnny allson a senior here at itt southern Call california californi forni has donea feet 9 inches and I 1 firmly believe he will hit 6 10 be bei i afore the 1841 1941 season closes |
