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Recreational skills that will be used by the man in service generally will have to be
learned by him prior to his induction. The military camps and bases have recreational facil-—
ities of varying extent and probably will expand these as rapidly as can be done. Games,
such as volley ball, tennikoit, paddle tennis, handball, badminton, and individual activities,
such as swimming, diving, and fencing, may be taught to students in college so that they may
be able to enter wholeheartedly into active recreational events in their military camps.

Other games of a more vigorous nature, such as soccer, basketball, touch football, also may
serve as recreations for many of the men.

Colleges wherein the teaching of some of the less vigorous sports and activities has
been discontinued in favor of the development of physical strength may have overlooked the
responsibilities which the colleges have for teaching these very important recreational skills
to the college men.

It is recognized that men in military service enjoy recreations other than those of an
active sport type. This report is’ concerned with the physical activity program.

A great deal is made of the need for physical activity among the men in the armed serv—
ices. Those men who know how to play some game or sport with enough skill to like to play the
game frequently when the facilities and time are available are the ones who will keep on par—
ticipating in some type of physical activity.

All military services are interested in the factor of leadership as well as the ability
to obey commands and orders. From the standpoint of the military training programs as well as
from the viewpoint of the actual combat situations it is important to have men who are leaders
in the real sense of the word. It is necessary to have zen who command and men who obey com-
mands promptly and efficiently. It is of equal necessity to the molding of large numbers of
men into a vital, irresistible combat unit that there be among them leaders who by their very
manner and behavior draw to themselves the wholehearted, hard-headed support of the men in
their command.

Every part of the educational program which can contribute to the developing of these
leadership qualities should give especial attention to the task. Physical education can do
its share through providing situations requiring leaders, and through helping each man to
learn to be a leader to the extent possible for him.

Vigorous games of a highly competitive type provide innumerable opportunities for young
men to develop leadership qualities. In the organization of a team, the planning of strategy,
the disciplining of team mates, the urging on of one's own men when the going is rough—in
fact, in the whole situation of participating with others in a common enterprise the oppor—
tunities for learning real leadership qualities exist in unparalleled numbers.

The teachers of physical education in the college can utilize these games and sports
situations for developing leadership among the students. The opportunities are there and
only the most unimaginative persons will fail to see their potentialities for developing
leaders and men of high morale.

Other Related Values

Muscular strength is not the only outcome of a physical education. Seek them or not,
believe in their existence or not, experiences in motor activities are personally develop—
mental in a social or cultural sense. Common experience from childhood through life indicates
clearly the tremendously important bearing that play has upon individual development. Lessons