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Effect Of Environment On Athletic Ability, Carroll Clinton Stowell

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

There have bean many arguments, pro and con, about which boys make the best athletes. One very well known college coach, so the legend goes, would do his recruiting of football players in the following manner. He would drive around the country and every time he saw a prospective football player plowing a field he would stop and ask directions to the next town. If the boy just told him how to get there he would depart, but if the boy picked up the plow and pointed in the direction he should go he would immediately ask him to come …

A Study Of The Essential Drills And Fundamental Skills For A Pass Offense In High School T Formation Football, Vernon John Warkentin

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It is the purpose of this study (1) to determine the theories and techniques of the pass offense in football; (2) to analyse the basic fundamentals and skills of the high school pass offense; (3) to compile a list of essential T formation passing drills; and (4) to determine the relative importance of the basic fundamentals and skills of high school T formation pass offense.

A Recommended Intramural Sports Program For Senior High School Boys : Based On Results Of A Study Of Fifty-Four Senior High School Programs And Additional Research, Albert Adolph Dauth

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study (1) to investigate many senior high school programs and to incorporate good qualities of these programs into one recommend intramural sports program; (2) to compare these existing intramural sports programs with those recommended by authorities who have published books and periodicals on the subject, toward molding a complete intramural sports program for boys of all senior high schools, large or small; (3) to interest those schools who do not possess an intramural sports program in organizing a program in their institution; and (4) to give impetus and new ideas to those schools already …

A Survey To Determine The Status Of Health Teaching In The Elementary Schools Of The Stockton Unified School District, Howard Franklin Evans

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study and report is to determine the present status of health teaching in the elementary schools of the Stockton Unified School District. The results of this study should serve to stimulate better teaching methods and to indicate further study toward the improvement of health teaching curriculum. Health instruction has been a part of school curricula for many years. This study will locate the subject area in which health teaching in the Stockton elementary schools. It is not the intent, however, that this report go into the detail of curriculum revision and improvement but that it adhere …

A Comparison Of The Scholastic Attainment Of Athletes And Non-Athletes At Modesto High School, Mark C. Parsons

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This is a study intended to determine i f there are any significant differences in scholastic attainment between athletes and non-athletes at Modesto High School. The eight semester grades of the male graduates for the years 1945-1949 were studied, and only those graduates who attended Modesto High School for four years were considered. Raw differences in grades attained are shown as well as the differences apparent in comparing members of the two groups with like abilities as indicated by intelligence test scores.

An attempt to weigh the significant differences in scholastic attainment between the athlete and non-athlete in itself is …

A Survey Of The Health Practices Of The Boys And Girls Of Stockton High School, Kenneth W. Rogers

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The health of the students in a class is of vital importance to every teacher because of the relationship between health of the students and their performance in school. Especially is this true of the Physical Education instructor and coach, whose job it is to work with the students in physical activities. High school teachers assume that the students in the elementary school have been taught the correct health practices. Whether the student is practicing the habit taught is a question that few teachers can answer. The only basis the teacher has for his answer to this question is observation …

A Survey Of The Techniques Of Football Line Play In Selected Colleges, F. Sheldon Harden

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study (1) to determine the importance of techniques of line play in college football; and (2) to note by comparative analysis the viewpoints of leading authorities now in the coaching profession, and those of noted football authors.

A Survey Of The Course Content In Sixteen State Courses Of Study In Health Education For The Secondary School, Ella Ida Cutkosky

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was in the belief that a summary of the course content of state courses of study in health education would be of value and interest in the light of present trends in curriculum construction that this study was written.

The purpose of this investigation was to survey sixteen state courses of study compiled by their respective state education departments, to determine the details of content considered most essential in health education at the high school level.

Advanced Techniques In Women's Field Hockey With Emphasis On Teaching Aids, Harriet Louise Sheldon

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The teaching of organized physical education for girls in our schools is rather new in comparison to the number of years schools have existed. In some states physical education is not part of the curriculum but in others, such as California, it is required by law. When one realizes that physical education in the schools is in its infancy one becomes aware of the fact that source materials must therefore be inadequate. Hockey, although an ancient sport, is one of the comparatively newest field sports in the curriculum of the physical education program in the United States. As a result …

A History Of The Stockton Recreation Department, 1910 To 1947, Including Its Early Background, And The Development Of Its Program And Facilities, Bert Edward Swenson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

For a period of twenty years beginning in 1918 when the writer became Superintendent of the Stockton Playground Department, annual reports of its major activities and accomplishments were made and submitted to the Mayor and later the City Manager for their information. They helped in securing the next budget. Throughout the thirty years of service additional reports of activities and improvements in facilities were kept on file in the office of the department for the information of its officers and a permanent record.

The writer finds that he has been a part. of the supervised public playground movement since its …

A Survey Of Athletic Training Departments Of 16 Four Year Colleges In The State Of California, Irving B. Thompson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The care of the athlete has come into much discussion and has been the object of much research, but all this has come about in recent years. The athlete's health is paramount to a successful team and a conscientious coach; more so is his health important in contact sports with intercollegiate football in the foreground. The interest in football injuries has increased with the increased emphasis of the sport, for the coach is finding it more and more important to have all his players in the best possible condition to withstand the physical and mental strain under which they must …

The Revival Of The Folk Dance As Social Recreation In Northern California, Grace Tener Frye

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This paper is limited to a few brief but important statements on the early development of the folk dance. As for its origins, it is quite obscure. From the studies of its beginnings, it can be freely said that it began with primitive man who used his body to express his feelings. Ruth Radir writes; "Man, we believe, has always danced. The beginnings of the dance, like the beginnings of all man's expressive life, are shrouded in a speculative past."¹

Amos Alonzo Stagg's Contributions To Athletics, George Robert Coe

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a collection of Mr. Stagg's contributions to athletics covering a period of the last sixty-six years, partly as a participant, but largely as a coach, director of physical education, and as a leader of men.

Herein the author wishes to bring tribute to this great man who has contributed more to the field of athletics and the development of manhood than could be written hare in the form of facts and figures.

His achievements and inventions in the various phases of athletics speak for themselves and will go down in the archives representing this field of endeavor. …

Health Education In The Public Schools Of Hawaii, Thelma F. Atkins

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This thesis will trace the major developments in the field of health education in the public schools or the Territory of Hawaii from the beginnings made in 1009 to the present time. Some attention will be paid to developments on the Islands or Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai; but the greater emphasis will be placed on the work done on the Island of Oahu.

The public schools of the Territory of Hawaii are at present carrying on an extensive health program. The special health class work seems to be receiving more attention in the non-English standard schools. The need is more …

Lodi Recreation Survey, Ralph B. Francis

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It is the purpose of this study to make a complete recreation survey of Lodi with the idea of determining the need for a community sponsored recreation program. Lodi as a community is anxious to develop the welfare of its citizens. With the advancement and betterment of the community in mind, the results of this report are to be studied, checked, and acted upon by all groups interested in a community recreation program. For the purpose of clarification, recreation will be treated as leisure-time activity as for most people the opportunities for it are largely confined to their leisure hours. …

Football Injuries At The College Of The Pacific 1924 To 1933, Robert L. Breeden

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The interest in football injuries has increased with the increased enthusiasm for the sport. The coach is finding it more and more important to have all of his players in the best possible condition to withstand the terrific strain under which they must compete. The public wants to see a well played, exciting game, but the days of brutality seem to be vanishing. The average fan would rather see the best players play in the game than to have them sit on the bench in plaster casts.

This has led to a series of quite wide-spread investigations dealing with the …

Intramural Athletics For The Small High School, Maurice R. Wood

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Intramural athletics, in the small high school should be a program of sports for all. The small high school with its limited financial and athletic equipment will do well to recognize the general trend of physical education by developing an athletic program of "activity for activity's sake".

Working in the physical education department of small high schools for the past four years, the writer is aware that there is a need for a program of athletics for all. The program presented in this thesis is the result of investigation and practical experimentation with intramural athletics for boys in the Live …

The Application Of Judd's Theory Of Generalization To Teaching Situations In Physical Education For Ninth Grade Girls, Helen Minerva Loveridge

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In the physical education work of the public schools the accomplishment of character and moral development through this subject is accepted but unproven. Through three years of teaching and extensive reading in the theory and practice of this field the writer is very much aware of this condition. The accomplishment of the health betterment through physical education activities is universally accepted, but the achievement of character betterment, although universally mentioned by educators, is not generally proven as an actual occurrence.

Since the former is achieved through careful planning the latter likewise necessitates definite method. The method may be based upon …