Sports Schoo!
Held in Rome

Allied Force Headquarters, Italy—
Fifty American soldiers and officers
yecently inaugurated classes of the
Mediterranean Theater’s cent ral
sports school in Rome.

The school provides refresher
courses in athletics to Army person-
nel who will serve as instructors
and coaches in a post-war sports
program for soldiers. Classes are
held in the gymnasium and athletic
grounds once used by Mussolini to
train Fascist troops. |

The classes will be given over a
period of three months with a new
eycle of students every 12 days. At
the end of each cycle the soldier-
students will return to duty with
their outfits to begin an expansion
of the unit’s athletic program.

Eight civilian athletic consult-
ants, each an expert in his field, have
been assigned by the War Depart-]|
ment to administer the coaching pro-
gram. Dean of the faculty is Dr.
Seward Charles Staley, director of
the University of Illinois School of.
Physical Education. i

His assistants are:

Ethan Allen, whose big league bat- |
ting record was an even .300 andthe;
“inventor” of the all-star games be- |}
tween the American and National |
Leagues.

Cecil Isbell, former Green Bay
Packer player and Purdue Univer-'
sity football coach. i

William J. (Billy) Cavanagh, box-
ing coach at West Point since 1918.

Howard (Hobby) Hobson, base-
ball and basketball coach at the
‘University of Oregon.

Bill Hargiss, University of Kansas
track coach who is credited with be-
ing the discoverer of Glen Cunning-
ham.

George T. White, Connecticut AAU
commissioner and Eastern Intercol-
legiate Association football coach.

Dean D. Nesmith, athletic trainer
at the University of Kansas.

Major E. A. Baggett, Special Serv-
ice Officer, is commandant of the
school.

Pledges of Northwestern soror-
ities experienced “courtesy week”
another name for old-fashioned hell-
week,