highest possible verformance in strength, endurance and agility. This, testing:... .
progran, adnittedly, is: not easy to administer. But how slse will you know where.
every boy is in physical condition and ability? And remember that -we.want to de-.
velop every boy, whether he has any athletic ability or not,

fn closing, I would like to reemphasize these facts; (1) that performance
physicol fitness as well ai functional physical fitness is absolutely essential
to .the war effort; (2) that the present physical condition. of young mon entering ;
the Army is far nelow par; and (3) that physical educntion and physical educators |
have a, tremendous responsibility in remedying this situation, I know that they.
are capable of the task and that they can do it. Let's. get back to the fundamen— |

tals of vhysical education and eliminate the razzle-dazzle nlays.

Paper prosented before the Annual Convention, California Association for Health, —

Physical Education ant Recreation; Sacranento, California, March 30, 1942...

fr iy.
x Kor

gat

ae &