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Michigan Wolverines Track Coaches: Keene Fitzpatrick, Stephen Farrell, Ken Doherty, Charles B. Hoyt, Alvin Kraenzlein, Don Canham

Michigan Wolverines Track Coaches: Keene Fitzpatrick, Stephen Farrell, Ken Doherty, Charles B. Hoyt, Alvin Kraenzlein, Don Canham


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Chapters: Keene Fitzpatrick, Stephen Farrell, Ken Doherty, Charles B. Hoyt, Alvin Kraenzlein, Don Canham. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Keene Fitzpatrick (December 25, 1864 May 22, 1944) was a track coach, athletic trainer, professor of physical training and gymnasium director for 42 years at Yale University (18901891, 18961898), the University of Michigan (18941895, 18981910), and Princeton University (19101932). He was considered "one of the pioneers of intercollegiate sport." As a young man in the 1880s, Fitzpatrick was a sprinter with the national champion Natick Hook and Ladder Company team. As a coach, he is credited with inventing modern pole-vaulting technique and with coaching numerous Olympic gold medalists, including Archie Hahn, Ralph Rose, Charles Dvorak and Ralph Craig. He was also the trainer for the Michigan Wolverines football teams from 18941895 and 18981909, including Fielding Yost's legendary "point-a-minute" teams from 19011905. Fitzpatrick was born in Natick, Massachusetts in 1864. He died in Princeton, New Jersey at age 79 in 1944. In the late 1870s and 1880s, New England was "the home of the professional athlete." Teams of professional sprinters formed in New England. For a decade, the sport thrived, and Fitzpatrick was one of the leading sprinters. Sprinters took up residence in small towns and competed with the local fire companies that engaged in hose races with other companies. Fitzpatrick "was one of the first to organize the famous hose, hook and ladder teams, when racing of this kind was so popular and the rivalry between Massachusetts towns was keen." The "Natick Hook and Ladder Company" was the most successful of the New England teams, becoming "the world's championship organization." The Natick team in the ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2108840


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155845203
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 50
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 86 gr
  • ISBN-10: 115584520X
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Keene Fitzpatrick, Stephen Farrell, Ken Doherty, Charles B. Hoyt, Alvin Kraenzlein, Don Canham
  • Width: 229 mm


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