Crews and ball nines have oftentimes the trial of exceptionally hot and exhausting weather to face, while a football team, after the few warm days of September are passed, enjoy the very best of bracing weather--weather which will give almost any man who spends his time in out-door work a healthy, hearty appetite. In order that any captain or coach reading this book may feel that, while it offers several courses of diet, it would emphatically present the fact that there is no hard-and-fast system of diet that must be religiously followed, I submit a variety of tables, showing some old as well as new school diets. None of them are very bad, several are excellent; and I don't think that a captain or coach would be called upon to draw his pencil through very many of the items enumerated. [Illustration: JEREMIAH S. BLACK. Princeton.] THE OXFORD SYSTEM.--(Summer Races.) A DAY'S TRAINING.[A] Rise about 7 A.M. | |So as to be in chapel; but | | early rising not compulsory. Exercise | A short walk or run |Not compulsory (walk only, and | | short). Breakfast, 8.30 |Meat, beef or mutton. | |Bread or toast, dry |The crust only recommended. |Tea |As little as possible | |recommended. Exercise (forenoon)| None |American football men should | | kick, catch, and pass. Dinner, 2 P.M. |Meat; much the same as | | for breakfast. | |Bread | Crust only recommended. |Vegetables, none allowed | A rule, however, not always | | adhered to. |Beer, one pint |This is what Americans call | |ale, and not indulged in to | |any great extent except after | |a hard game. Exercise |About 5 o'clock start | | for the river, and row | | twice over the course, | | the speed increasing | | with the strength | | of the crew. | Supper, 8.30 or 9. |Meat, cold. | |Bread; perhaps a jelly | | or watercresses. | |Beer, one pint (see above).| Bed about 10. [Footnote A: As has been stated elsewhere, improvements have been made in diet since this table was compiled. This will also apply to the Cambridge System, page 143.] TORPID RACES. A DAY'S TRAINING. Rise about 7.30 A.M. | |Early rising not compulsory.