In the First District at Boston, George V.
Brown, for thirteen years athletic organizer for the Boston Athletic
Association, was named; in the Second at Newport, Doctor William T.
Bull, the former Yale football coach and medical examiner; in the Third,
Frank S. Bergin, a former Princeton football-player; in the Fourth, at
League Island, Franklin T. McCracken, an athletic organizer of
Philadelphia; and at the Cape May Station Harry T. McGrath, of
Philadelphia, an all-round athlete.
In the Fifth District, Doctor Charles M. Wharton, of Philadelphia, a
prominent neurologist and University of Pennsylvania football coach,
took charge late in the fall, resigning in April, 1918, to become
field-secretary of the Navy Commission on Training Camp Activities, and
being succeeded by Louis A. Young, of Philadelphia, a former University
of Pennsylvania football-player, captain, and all-round athlete.
In the Sixth District, at Charleston, S.C., Walter D. Powell, a former
University of Wisconsin football-player, and later athletic director at
Western Reserve University, was placed in charge of the programme, and
at the Great Lakes Station, Herman P. Olcott, who had been football
coach at Yale and athletic director at the University of Kansas, began
his work in October.
Arthur C. Woodward, formerly interscholastic athletic organizer in
Washington, was placed in charge of the Puget Sound Station in
Bremerton; and Elmer C. Henderson, athletic director in Seattle high
schools, was appointed to the Seattle Station.
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