Also "LaForrest"
Competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics as an American track and field athelete.
After he graduated from Notre Dame in 1912, Fletcher coached in high school for two years before coming to Washington & Lee in 1914, where he taught PE and coached track. In 1917-18, he organized a group of about 40 W&L students into an Ambulance Unit that served in France in World War I and received the Croix de Guerre following their first engagement.
After the war, Fletcher returned to W&L to serve as track and cross country coach and head of the physical education department for 22 years. He coached W&L to two South Atlantic championships in cross country and to a state and Southern Conference championship in track. He was instrumental in having boxing removed from W&L, contending with great feeling that any college sport which had its objective as the incapacitation of one's opponent had no place in intercollegiate athletics.
Competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics as an American track and field athelete.
After he graduated from Notre Dame in 1912, Fletcher coached in high school for two years before coming to Washington & Lee in 1914, where he taught PE and coached track. In 1917-18, he organized a group of about 40 W&L students into an Ambulance Unit that served in France in World War I and received the Croix de Guerre following their first engagement.
After the war, Fletcher returned to W&L to serve as track and cross country coach and head of the physical education department for 22 years. He coached W&L to two South Atlantic championships in cross country and to a state and Southern Conference championship in track. He was instrumental in having boxing removed from W&L, contending with great feeling that any college sport which had its objective as the incapacitation of one's opponent had no place in intercollegiate athletics.
Also "LaForrest"
Competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics as an American track and field athelete.
After he graduated from Notre Dame in 1912, Fletcher coached in high school for two years before coming to Washington & Lee in 1914, where he taught PE and coached track. In 1917-18, he organized a group of about 40 W&L students into an Ambulance Unit that served in France in World War I and received the Croix de Guerre following their first engagement.
After the war, Fletcher returned to W&L to serve as track and cross country coach and head of the physical education department for 22 years. He coached W&L to two South Atlantic championships in cross country and to a state and Southern Conference championship in track. He was instrumental in having boxing removed from W&L, contending with great feeling that any college sport which had its objective as the incapacitation of one's opponent had no place in intercollegiate athletics.
Competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics as an American track and field athelete.
After he graduated from Notre Dame in 1912, Fletcher coached in high school for two years before coming to Washington & Lee in 1914, where he taught PE and coached track. In 1917-18, he organized a group of about 40 W&L students into an Ambulance Unit that served in France in World War I and received the Croix de Guerre following their first engagement.
After the war, Fletcher returned to W&L to serve as track and cross country coach and head of the physical education department for 22 years. He coached W&L to two South Atlantic championships in cross country and to a state and Southern Conference championship in track. He was instrumental in having boxing removed from W&L, contending with great feeling that any college sport which had its objective as the incapacitation of one's opponent had no place in intercollegiate athletics.
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