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The Relationship Between Athletic Success And Scholastic Achievement, Norman Bruce Province
The Relationship Between Athletic Success And Scholastic Achievement, Norman Bruce Province
Master's Theses
Recently the Berrien Springs Senior High School Board members voted to transfer from one interscholastic athletic league to another, since the high school's football and basketball teams had been having very poor athletic success. The faculty and administration felt that always losing was having a demoralizing effect on the entire school body, which was carrying over into their academic success.
This study covered a twenty year period running from 1953 to 1972 at the Berrien Springs Senior High School. The purpose was to see if the interscholastic athletic success in varsity and junior varsity football and basketball during this period …