US Army Infantry School - Doughboy Yearbook (Fort Benning, GA)

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- large bodies of men in physical train- ing present problems peculiar to them- M,,,,W. , selves. Both by instruction and prac- -r 79 i ,ev1f'2-f-ef' as fi, . 3F'f' tice the student officers have been 5 31 'J-wig!--T, -- -. . ..- I Q i taught the accepted methods for ac- complishing the best results. ln boxing and Wrestling enough of the elements Were taught to enable the student to act as an ollicial. Emphasis was laid on rules and on the organization of bouts and tournaments. Instruction in swimming was confined to a lecture on methods of teaching and its place in military training together With demonstrations of teaching methods, strokes, dives, life-saving, resuscitation and swimming with full equipment. All of this instruction is calculated to bring the officers ofthe Infantry, Which is called upon above all other arms to make the greatest physical effort under the most trying conditions, fo ii i-eaiizaiioii of the possibilities fit it it f and benefits of athletics and physical rffipinlgg- training, r.ot for themselves alone, but -C-' fi for their service at large. . -i

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ing, the benefits and results to be ex- 1 pected from formal and informal ' classes of exercises both from the 5 viewpoint of the individual soldier and of the service. Teaching methods ap- plicable to this sort of training have been emphasized. Calisthenics has covered exercises for the recruit and for the trained soldier, with reasons for the application of each set of exercises to each class to the end that the soldier and the service may get the most bene- ficial results from intelligently directed instruction. No effort has been made to teach intricate evolutions or Ustuntsll on the apparatus. lnstruction has been confined to activities most applicable to the military service and within the soldier's reach, such as vaulting and I yy 1 - p 1 climbing. The buck, horse, horizontal bar, parallel bars and ropes have been used. These types of apparatus are most readily obtained or improvised generally throughout the service. Group games have been arranged and taught progressively, so that an oHicer may be in ag position to provide games suited to any type of soldier and lead the inapt and backward on to games requiring skillful use of all the faculties. Group games afford a high type of physical exercise with the recrea- tional feature added. With a large number at his command the oflicer who knows how to Watch his men and gauge the state of their interest is able by judicious selection and op- Z g g p 1 portune change to keep interest con- 5 1 4 V K 1 stantly at the highest pitch and bring U FWI ,.,A Qp -1 -- U J A. .pq I . . I the Pefwd t0 fl C1086 Wlfh the men UH- Sfltlafedf The controlling and commanding of

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