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SUMMARY
1936-1937 1937-1938 1938-1939
Teams Men Teams Men Teams Men
Total of Team Sports 423 hO91 L61 4132 453 4154
Total of individual
- Sports 288 2161 B90. 21g 580 3079
Total Ta 6252 95d 6911 1033 1253

Intramural athletics are showing such rapid growth because most students
like to play. It is not a program that needs as intensive promotion as do some
of our extra-curricular activities, nevertheless, it demands more than it is now
receiving to insure increased individual participation.

The following table shows the individual participation as compiled by the
Men's Intramural department at the University of Missouri for the year 1938-39.
This table is representative of most records that might be examined. There are
twelve sports (listed horizontally) in which there were fifty-one separate
contests. The number of men participating are listed at the bottom and right
hand side. It is interesting to note that of the total of 1809 men, only one
entered all twelve sports and a total of fifty-one contests. Three hundred
forty-five men entered one sport in which they participated in only one contest.