shooting (archery), foils, football, racing, wildegoose chases, which are the
disports of greater men. ‘he ordinary occasions for the pastimes of the
common people were Sundays and church festivals, and the numerous country
fairs,

- Therefore, we find that all athletic contests are a throwback from
the game ofwar, The Huns, under Attila, used war for conquest. The
German mind has always held to the theory that they wore the supermen, the
men to rule the world, ‘The Englishman has followed the theory that every
man to be a gentleman should play at least one game well.

After the war of Liberation, Charles Follen and Charles Back, two
German refugees, came to America and settled in Bostone They taught Latin
and Ores at Harvard University and founded the first schools of the
Germanic type of physicd edueation in our country. They organized the
Turnverein, where, at these symastic sotleties, the building of strong
bedies was emphasized, Charles Follen later moved to Philadelphia where he
orgenized Girard College.

The German influence on American physical education was ‘very pronounced
in the early begiming of education in our country. School gymasia were
fitted with apparatus and the imitation type of the Germanic theory was
initiated. Follow the leader became the procedure for our schools in physical
education,

However, the English type of physical education through sports and -
| Games began to replace the Germanic system in the middle of the Fighteenth
centurye America turned to sports and games through the English influence
and instead of developing & strong body for warelike activities, America's
psychology was to develop sports and games on the theory that the game is the

thing. The German student proudly exhibited a ta his face as his trophy