Excerpt from Official Handbook: Inter-Scholastic Athletic Association of Middle Atlantic States
Has been connected with Y. M. C. A. Work for many years as physical director at Cincin nati and Brooklyn. Where he made such a high reputation as organizer that he was chosen to succeed Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick as Secretary of the Athletic League of Y. M. C. A.'s of North America, when the latter resigned to take charge of the physical training in the Public Schools of Greater New York.
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