Citation

Baugh FG, Benjamin LT. J. Hist. Behav. Sci. 2006; 42(1): 3-18.

Affiliation

Veterans Health Administration's, National Center for Organizational Development, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/jhbs.20134

PMID

16345007

Abstract

In 1926-1927, a graduate student, B. C. Graves, working with Stanford University psychologist Walter Miles and legendary American football coach Pop Warner, conducted an investigation of variations in signal calling as they affected the charging times of football players. The study was one of two that involved Miles and the ingenious multiple chronograph that he had invented to time the reactions of seven players simultaneously. These studies represented a brief digression in the career of Miles, who certainly was no sport psychologist. They tell of an interesting collaboration between scientist and coaches that produced one of the richest studies in sport psychology in the first half of the twentieth century.

Language: en