Identifier: athleticprincipl00phila (find matches)
Title: Athletic principles and activities
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Philadelphia. Public schools. Supervisory committee on athletics. (from old catalog) Hummel, Carl A., (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Athletics
Publisher: New York, American sports publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ears. Varsity teams are entered also in base ball, basket ball, cross-country,golf and tennis ; while the girls have teams in track, base ball, basket ball,captain ball, hockey, tennis and volley ball. The activity which has engaged perhaps as many students as any sporthas been boxing and wrestling. During the indoor season wrestling tourna-ments and many boxing exhibitions are held. The number of students par-ticipating in these activities has been increasing annually until in 1921almost three hundred students were entered in the wrestling tournamentalone. One of the most pleasing features of the school is the fact that most tthe interclass athletic competition is controlled and supervised by thestudents themselves. As was previously mentioned, each of the forty ormore sections of the school elects each term an athletic manager. Among the duties which the class manager has to perform are, first, togather together the best players ; second, to see that his class is represented
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(iiJ3 t.^ *^-McoHoo S tSlALDlXGS ATHLETIC LIUKAKV. TIJ oil the field at the scheduled time, and, third, he is respousible for allmaterial which his team uses. This is suiiervised by a reliable fellow, goner-ally an upper-classman, whose duty it is to see that the scheduled gamesare played. He also settles, so far as he is able, all the questions whichmight arise. Most of the games are played on a regular schedule, eachclass playing every other class team in the school, there being eight classesin all, but the more strenuous games, such as foot ball, are run on anelimination basis. The class winning the championship receives cups orbanners provided by the athletic association. One can see the great benefits which most of the students derive fromthese interclass games. Invariably they are boys who for variotis reasonscannot nialte the varsity teams. These boys, who comprise tlie majority ofthe student body, are offered the opportunity to engage in conipetiti(>n whichthey would otherw

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