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Artificial tracks and off-season
training programs may be essential
for the American athlete, but for
Adolph Tingan and Jacob Yemme,
the natural outdoors was their only
training arena.
Tingan and Yemme, natives of
Ghana, Africa, began their training
in a different manner from Ameri
can athletes. “My father is a hunter
and when I was six or seven he
began to take me with him,”
Yemme said. “And since he does his
hunting on foot I had to travel at
twice his pace. I guess it was then I
developed my running style. I re
ally didn’t develop my skill or in
terest until I was in middle school. ”
Tingan said he also began running
at regular intervals out of necessity.
“I lived six miles from my school and
if I was late I would run all the way. ”
“In my primary and middle
schools the track program was very
underdeveloped,” Tingan said.
Perhaps there would be one meet a
year and one or two weeks be
forehand they would gather all the
boys together and let them run, he
said.
It was not until the two were in
high school that they were actually
involved in any type of training or
competitive program. “Even there
the program is not very well plan
ned,” Tingan said. The track season
starts a month before interschool
competition begins. Team mem
bers are chosen among the best ath
letes in the preliminary interhous
ing competition.
Ghana is divided into nine com
petitive regions, Yemme said. The
winners in the regional meets would
then compete in the inter-regional
meet and finally those which had
not been eliminated would repres
ent Ghana in the national meet.
Both Yemme and Tingan have
represented their native country in
national competition. “Last year my
government paid my way home to
compete,” Yemme said. “This will
be my sixth consecutive year to run
in them.” Yemme has received two
silver metals in national competi
tion.
It was in the inter-regional meet
of 1972 that the two runners were
first noticed. “Pat MeHan, a Peace
Corps Volunteer, first noticed we
had potential and wrote to some
coaches here,” Tingan said. “We
were notified of the two in the
spring of ’72 but with the slow cor
respondence we couldn’t get them
over here until January, TAMU
Head Track Coach Charles Thomas
said.
The two mentors said they were
both contacted by several schools
but decided on A&M because the
weather conditions were similar to
what they were used to. Yemme
said h e received letters from the
Universities of Nebraska, Kansas,
New Mexico and Texas in addition
to A&M.
Tingan received letters from
Nebraska and a small college in
Iowa. “I first signed with Nebraska,
but I figured I might be lonely going
somewhere I didn’t know anybody,
and since Adolph was coming here,
I thought I would too,” Yemme
said. "But the main reason I chose
A&M was because of the weather
conditions.”
Upon arrival in the states, Tingan
and Yemme had to work double
time for the 1973 track season.
"The two boys got here in January
and the season began that month,”
Thomas said. “They weren’t in the
same sort of shape as the other boys
because they hadn’t trained regu
larly.”
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the big, fat guy who can’t walk and
chew gum at the same time.”
That was John Hopkins’ All-
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scribing how goalies are sometimes
chosen in lacrosse. Matthews, who
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Tingan and Yemme agreed that
the TAMU workouts were much
more difficult than what they were
use to because they were more or
ganized. “Here you are forced to
work harder,” Yemme said. “You
are always reminded you are on
scholarship and must work hard to
get to compete.”
Thomas said foreign athletes are
given the same scholarship provi
sions as all other recipients except
that an age limit is set.
Although the two agreed that the
workouts were difficult to adjust to,
they concluded the dietary change
was perhaps the most difficult to ad
just to. “We are use to a basic starch
diet,” Tingan said “and Americans
eat so much meat.” “Those boys had
quite a bit of trouble with their diet
their first year, the food was so rich
and all, ” Thomas said. Yemme
summed up the situation saying that
the food was hard to get used to, but
now that they do not have to eat in
Sbisa dining hall, it’s a lot easier.
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