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PHYSICAL soUCuTLON CUURGE 60O=¢ BasksT BaLL

{For men)
1937

ASSIGNMGNT AVI

Trainine, Conditioning and Practicing.

REFSRSNCE: Better Basket Ball Chapter XXVIII

QUSSTIONS :

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Who usually acts as trainer to high school teams? What should
this san know about the physical care of his men? answer this

last question in two sweeping statements,.

why should a team have a team-physician? What should his
duties be? specially at the beginning of the season? ~

Is there a difference between training and conditioning? If so,
what? .

Aside from caring for the physical well being of his men the
trainer has another duty to perform. ‘This is a responsibility

for the mental well being of his players. Blaborate upon this

statement. "The trainer has a two-fold responsibility to
perform’. Discuss fully.

Discuss separately the place of euch of the following Licuide

in the diet of the athelote. (a) water (b) Milk (c) Cocoa
(ad) Coffee (e).Tea. |

What do you have to say about the use of tobacco among athietes?
Do you or would you allow a man who persistently breaks train-
ing during the playing season to continue on your team and to
participate in the games? Irom your own observation af the
effect of tobacco upon the pyiysical and mental reaction of

your men what can you contribute to the discussion of te use
of tobacco amons athletes?

Give at least one contridvution on this subject of tobacco and
its effects upon growing boys from an outside authority of
your owm choice. State references

Emerson and Betts, in their volume called Physiology and

Uyeiene, say the following, which is worth passing on as it
comes from actual research: .

‘Boys who want to be athictes (and what boy doses not?) will
be interested in an investigation made in six different colleges
and universities by Brofessor F. J. Pack to discover the relam~ —
tion of tobacco to success in football. ©