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Physical Measurements of Adolescent School-Boys in Relation to Scholastic Attainment and Prowess in Games and Sports

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Alfred A. Mumford
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The following study completes the examination of the data derived from certain physical and physiological measurings of adolescent boys at the Manchester Grammar School, taken during the last ten years with a view to enquiring whether any definite relationship could be discovered between such measurings, considered singly or in combination, and either general scholasticattainments or special aptitudes in school sports and games. If such relationship, indicating either general or particular aspects of health and vitality, could be discovered, then, although spontaneity of choice in classroomand playing-fields should always be jealously guarded, yet the cause of many failures might be revealed and such innate energy as the boy may possess be directed into more appropriate channels.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 1933 , pp. 80 - 94
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1933

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