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Thursday, December 5, 1968
College Station, Texas
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Coach, Player, Spectator Hearts’ Rates Checked
Heart rates of a basketball
player, his coach and a spectator
were recorded at A&M's season
opening game in research to de
termine comparative work loads
during an athletic contest.
Measurements by Miniature
radio - transmitted signals Were
penned on a 131-foot-long sheet
of paper which will be analyzed
by Health and Physical Educa
tion Department professors.
The project , was arranged and
conducted during A&M’s game
with the University of Southern
Mississippi by Dr. Charles B.
Corbin, Dr. Homer Tolson and
Raymond L. Fletcher.
SUBJECTS FOR the test —
which Corbin believes is the first
conducted at a major athletic
event — were A&M coach Shel
by Metcalf, senior forward Har
ry Bostic of St. Paul, Ind., and
aerospace engineering professor
Dr. James A. Stricklin who at
tended as a spectator.
“We expect to be able to dif
ferentiate heart rate response
from player to coach to fan for
a given situation during the com
petition,” Corbin explained. “Re
cordings will show which situa
tions caused changes in each’s
heart rate.”
The professor who made simi
lar remote measurements at the
University of Toledo in a scrim
mage and freshman game said
the obvious hypothesis that the
palyer’s heart works hardest of the
test subjects was substantiated.
“THIS IS LOGICAL,” he com
mented, “but analysis must take
into account that he is expend
ing vast amounts of energy
which requires his heart to work
faster, sending blood and oxygen
to the muscles.”
Corbin noted that real game
tensions also cause more rapid
heart rates in the coach and fan.
Data will help scientists under
stand mechanisms which prepare
the human body for strenuous
action.
SIGNALS FROM the battery-
powered transmitters were con
verted to chart tracings showing
heart beats per minute. Bostic’s
transmitter carried two sensors,
the extra a cardiovascular pickup
that produced directly readable
tracings.
Corbin said surprising results
are evident from just a casual
glance at the chart. Both Met
calf’s and Bostic’s rates in
creased before the game started,
when starters were introduced.
BOSTIC’S GRAPH shows a
pronounced increase and he did
not start. Corbin expected peak
player rates to reach 150 beats
a minute during the most stren
uous parts of the game.
Bostic’s rate sustained at
above 180 beats a minute for sev
eral brief periods, 30 over the
expected level.
If Harry had gone as hard for
10 minutes as he did for three at
one time, he couldn’t have con
tinued. He wouldn’t have a heart
attack. He would just have been
too fatigued.”
Bostic’s rates went highest
midway through the second half,
particularly during about a three-
minute stretch when he scored
six of A&M’s eight points.
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