The Washington herald., 1916-01-02
Jack Moakley, Veteran
Cornell Track Coach,
Tops List of Tutors
Seventeen Years with Itha.
cans and Team Has Won
Fourteen intercollegiate
Cross-county Titles

Jack MoalIiey and Cornell. one and IN.
sepsrablei
Il looks that way. doesn't ~
Whenever one thinks OF Cornell he
thinks Of Jack. Moakley, and wherever
one thinks Of Jack Moskley he imme-
6istely thinks Of Cornell. John Francis
Moakley-. IN fact IL one OF Cornelfs most
sacred institutions. Any Cornell man
will tell you that And Il is worth a LITTLE
bet that when OF Jack breasts the tape
In the race Of life Cornell University viii
erect a monument TO his memory. Hang
IL all, he deserves one, anyway
But. after ALL the innumersble tno-
phies the Red and Black have won on
track and field and over hill ana dale
perhaps are the best monuments 20 his
memory. They can't erase from the col
lege records the athletic feats performed
by the athletes OF the Red and White IN
der the Moaliey regime Those records
forever will keep Jack Moskiey's name
in Cornelfs Hall Of Fame.
out OF the thirty-five years spent IN the
realm OF the track and neId. first as a
runner-snd none OF the old-timers are
ever going TO forget that old Msssachu-
sets hose company team that Jack. to-
gether with Mike Murphy. Keene FItI-
patrick, Johnny Mack and Nficky Finn. n
our memory serves us right. were MEM
bers of-and later as a coach. seventeen
years have been spent in the capacity
which he now fills as dean OF Cornell Sth-
Ietics
Seventeen years at the same old stand.
AND It's hard TO tell which is the richer
for Il. Cornell or Moskley'
They have appreciated Jack up there
in Ithaca and Jack certainly has Appre-
ciated Cornell Appreciated, perhaps. II
too mild a word. Loved would Be q bet
ter one. Jack boasts no sheepslin and
never won an academic DEGREE but Cor
nell is his alma mater. all the same, and
no graduate ever loved his college with a
greater love than Jack Mostiey love-
Cornell
No coach IN the annals Of athletics
ever has established as remarkable q
record as Jack Moskley has with the
Cornell cross-country teams. Since Mosk-
| ley has had charge OF the hfli-snd-dslers
at Ithaca a period Of seventeen years.
] Cornell has lost the intercollegiate croes-
country championship only three times.
enteen! Some record. fellow athletic fsn,
some record!
Tale won the intercollegiate cross
/ country team championship In lso1, Hsr-
| ward captured the lsurels In 1914 and
the stout-hesrted and rtrone-lunged hill
and-dslers from the University of Maine
won this years collegiate chase But IN
I lSS. lNs, 1SLs lSSs l"Ns lShE LIZA lSVts
1909, 1909. 1910. 1911. 1873 and iN4 Moskley-
coached hArriers from the shores Of Lake
I Csyugs carried the silks of Cornell to o
glorious victory.
As to individual intercollegiate crces-
country championship vtnperS Jack
Moakley has been almost as successsuL
II Is the team idea that prevails at
| Cornell At Ithaca the idea is TO make
all OF the students physically efficient
/ rather than TO turn out individual cham
pions- And so Moekley turned out four
| teen cross-country champion teams out
of seventeen Incidentally. however. Jack
sent home eight Individual cross-country
| champions as well.
In general track and feid sport MoaS-
/ ley has achieved almost as wonderful
results with the Cornell athletes ss he
| has in the hill-snd-dsle department OF
| athletics Cornell won the ooller1st.
track and field championship Of America
in 1906, 1906. 1908 1911. Isl4 and 1915 Mosk-
/ ley's Cornell team has been returned
victorious six times IN the last ten years.
| That indeed is a record to be proud OF.
And so you can zee why, outside OF
| his lovsble qualities. they think 80 much
\ OF Jack Moskley al Cornell
As usual, there's q reason.