Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1911-12-26
MURPHY WILL
PICK WINNERS
Selection of American Track
Team Trainer Deemed
Wise One

The United States took a long step
toward winning the Olympic track
and field championships, which are
TO be decided in the stadiu mat Stock
holm. Sweden, next July. when IL ap-
pointed Michael c. Murphy as train
er OF the 1919 team. There are
other trainers in this country who
have possibly as much technical skill
as Murphy, but for ability to imme-
diately size mp an athlete and TO get
the maximum amount of work out
OF him in the minimum time Muir
ply probably has no equal on either
side OF the Atlantic.
This will be the fourth time that
Murphy has taken track and field
teams to compete in European meets.
Ills most notable success was In 1908
when he trained the American Olym-
pic aggregation. Soskilfully did he
do his work that his charges more
than came pto expectations. There
was absolutely no friction among the
athletes. for Murphy's invariable
good humor kept everybody happy
yet he exercised the strictest disci-
pline. On account of the wonderful
record which his team made he could
not have been other than the uanni-
nous choice OF the committee to take
charge of the second team,
Murphy has been longer in the bus
mess than any other coach in this
country. yet he is only 80 years old.
lie began his coaching career with
the Detroit Athletic Club more than
twenty years ago just after he had
given up professional sprinting,
From Detroit he went to Yale Uni
Nersity where he made himself IA
nous by the skill of the athletes he
developed So successful was he
that the Yale team enjoyed almost a
monopoly in intercollegiate track
and field victories The attention Of
the New York Athletic Club was
called to him and he took charge Of
their team during the summer
months.
In the fall of 1897 the University
of PENNSYLVANIA lured him away from
Yale and he remained in charge Of
the Quaker team for four years. At
PENNSYLVANIA he showed the same ca
pacity for discovering and develop
ing new material that he had dis
PLAYED nj Yale and ms result the
Quakers won the intercollegiate
championship every year he was al
PENNSYLVANIA. At the end of his 4
year contract he returned to Yale,
where he remained for period OF
five years. He returned to Pcnnsyl'
vana again In the fall of 1905 and
is now serving his second 5-year con-
tract with the Quakers.
Nurplv's actual duties in connec-
ton with the American team will not
begin until next June. lie will
doubtless be consulted from time to
time in regard to training plans for
the team. and probably his advice
will be sought in the selection In the
team itself. Nominally this Is In
charge Of three separate committees,
one for the East, another for the
Middle West and another for the Pa
cifc Coast Tryouts will be held for
the selection Of candidates for the
team in Boston Chicago ana San
Francisco udring the months of May
and June After the team has been
assembled In the Fast, Murphy Will
take charge Of II, though probably
only In an advisory capacity until the
men actually board the ship. From
this time until the games are cont
plctcd Murphy will be in complete
charge of the physical condition OF
the men.