PHYSICAL FITNESS AND NATIONAL DEFENSE

Resolution adopted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at its
Annual Convention, Hotel New Yorker, New York City, December 30 - 31, 1940.

Supporting the action taken during the course of the past
year by its Executive Committee in urging its member col-
leges and universities to expand and intensify their pro-
grams of intercollegiate athletics, intramural athletics and
physical training for their student bodies as a contribution
to the cause of national defense, the National Collegiate Ath-
letic Association now meeting in session at its thirty-fifth
Annual Convention gives its full affirmation to such pro-
grams, and in addition makes these recommendations to its
member institutions:

1. That to the full extent of their resources they expand
their researches in the fields of public health, physical
training and allied problems and their programs for
ine training of teachers and leaders in these same
fields ;

2. That they make available their facilities and their
trained personnel to the youth of the local communi-
ties and the surrounding regions, and that they cooper-
ate fully with such non-college organizations as the
American Legion, the Athletic Institute, and all other
well-established service clubs and societies to promote
sports, physical training and health programs through-
out their communities and the nation at large.

3. That to all branches of the armed services of the gov-
ernment they stand ready to codéperate, through their
facilities and staffs, in extending every possible aid at
their disposal in support of programs making for
physical fitness and high morale.