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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Mike Murphy, Howard Jones, Jack Siedlecki, Ivy Williamson, Don Brown, Albert Sharpe, Adam Walsh, John Pont, Walter Camp, William Renner, T. A. Dwight Jones, Paul Veeder, William Rhodes, Howard Odell, Bill Glassford, Hal Kopp, Ted Coy, Lucius Horatio Biglow, Frank Shaughnessy, Myron Fuller, Denny Myers, Ducky Pond, Bob Shoop, Tom Williams, Frank Butterworth, Art Raimo, Elmer McDevitt, Herman Hickman, Peahead Walker, Josh Hartwell, Shawn Halloran, Robert Winston, Malcolm McBride, Carmen Cozza, Mal Stevens, Harry Jacunski, Nick Kotys, Frank Hinkey, Bob Odell, Gib Holgate, Jack Owsley, Spike Nelson, Foster Rockwell, Art Howe, Sam Thorne. Excerpt: Michael Charles "Mike" Murphy (February 26, 1860 - June 4, 1913) was an athletic trainer and coach at Yale University (1887-1889, 1892-1896, 1901-1905), the Detroit Athletic Club (1889-1892), the University of Michigan (1891), the University of Pennsylvania (1896-1901, 1905-1913), and the New York Athletic Club (1890-1900). He also coached the American track athletes at the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1908, and 1912. He also spent a year in approximately 1884 as the trainer of heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan. The Washington Post in 1913 called Murphy "the father of American track athletics." He was considered the premier athletic trainer of his era and was said to have "revolutionized the methods of training athletes and reduced it to a science." He is credited with establishing many innovative techniques for track and field, including the crouching start for sprinters. Accounts concerning Murphy's youth differ. He was born in February 1860 either in Southboro, Westboro or Natick, Massachusetts. He was the son of Irish immigrants, a man "of humble birth and scant education." Murphy's father had a reputation as an athlete, and Murphy's desire as a youth was to become a...
