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What physical education proper should have done in the past 20 years and

.. what it should be doing right now is to develop the muscular strength, organic.
-vigor, endurance, stamina, agility and bodily control of every grammar school, ©

high. school and college student, not merely of the sacred few who participate in

interschool athletics. This is the kind of physical fitness and cbHaes teh Quine’
physical education can claim to develop. This is the kind of physical condition
thatis absolutely essential as a foundation for both the Army and Navy and for.
the working, producing civilian population.

‘Besides my observations of thousand of recruits, I have some objective evi-
dence on this failure of physical ndnbaeton to develon physically effective young

men.,. Last fall I tested, thru a battery of standardized physical achievement

‘tasts, over 1,000 Air Force enlisted men, most of them newly inducted soldiers.

In every test, without excention, the mean performance of these soldiers fell -
below the mean performance of unselected college students as determined by Dr.

Cozens in his Achievement Scales for Colleze Men, And those college men were not
athletes, I believe the soldiers tested were a representative cross section’ of ©
the type of men entering the Army today. They were from many states; about half
of them were from California schools. They were selected st random from various
types of Air Force Units. The age was about the same as that of our college men.

Our new: soldiers not only fall below the mean standards of college men, but also

. below: the very conservative achievement standards suggested by the Army.

ot. let me give: you some of the actual méan performances of these men:

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 Pull-ups on 3255 | aud “Loan “sang
Push-uns from ground 16 23
Standing broad jump 6!'7% : 7
ge0 yard run 34.2 not ‘available
150. yard dash SlpGen -nctsic i EE BPR OL RSEOO Ay

75 yard ash 10.5 : 943