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Constructing Athletic Equipment For Small High Schools, Gordon Snaza Jul 1961

Constructing Athletic Equipment For Small High Schools, Gordon Snaza

Graduate Student Research Papers

The purpose of this paper was to make available to administrators and coaches a detailed and descriptive report on the construction of athletic equipment. This author, having coached in a small high school, knows the hardships coaches in small high schools encounter in acquiring athletic equipment and facilities.


A Comparison Of Performance Tests Of Balance Of Children With And Without Auditory Handicaps, Joanne Baker Overman Jun 1960

A Comparison Of Performance Tests Of Balance Of Children With And Without Auditory Handicaps, Joanne Baker Overman

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

The purposes of this study were to compare the differences in performances in static and dynamic balance tests between: (1) deaf children and hearing children; (2) deaf girls and hearing girls; (3) deaf boys and hearing boys; (4) deaf girls and hearing boys; (5) deaf boys and hearing girls; (6) deaf and hearing boys by age groups; (7) deaf and hearing girls by age groups; (8) the congenital deaf and the infectious deaf; (9) deaf boys and deaf girls; and (10) hearing boys and hearing girls.


The Relation Of Flexibility And Power As Measured By The Standing Broad Jump And Basketball Throw Of Junior High School Girls, Helen Currier Dobell Jun 1957

The Relation Of Flexibility And Power As Measured By The Standing Broad Jump And Basketball Throw Of Junior High School Girls, Helen Currier Dobell

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

The purposes of this study were (1) to determine the relation between flexibility and two measures of power; and (2) to determine the significance of the differences between seventh, eighth, and ninth grade girls in their performances in two power events.


Physical Power Relationships, Roy Lenard Anderson Jr. Sep 1949

Physical Power Relationships, Roy Lenard Anderson Jr.

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

Individualization in education depends upon accurate appraisal of fundamental characteristics. A better understanding of physical abilities and potentials is essential to improvement of the physical education program. This means that the methods of science involving analysis and modification should be applied to the physical factors as well as to any other aspects of human behavior. A man is the sum total of his abilities. Abilities vary, both the inherent and the acquired. If it is important for a teacher or coach to judge ability and performance, then it is important to have adequate objective measurements pertaining to these factors.


History Of The Nebraska High School Athletic Association, Vincent J. Cortney Apr 1942

History Of The Nebraska High School Athletic Association, Vincent J. Cortney

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

The purpose of this study is to portray the historical setting of the Nebraska High School Association, to give reasons for its being formed, to trace its continued existence and growth, to analyze its functions, to survey the organization, plans, and activities by which the association is attempting to achieve its functions, and to evaluate the service of the organization.


The Comparison Of The Status Of Physical Education In The Negro Public Elemetary Schools Of Atlanta, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, And New Orleans, Louisiana, Minnie L. Finley Jan 1941

The Comparison Of The Status Of Physical Education In The Negro Public Elemetary Schools Of Atlanta, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, And New Orleans, Louisiana, Minnie L. Finley

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

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