154 STATE BOARD OF AORIOULTURE. 



REI^OET OF THE DEI'AETMENT OF THYvSK^AL TRAINING. 



President David Friday, 



Michigan AgTicultural College. 

 Dear President Friday : 



I beg to submit the following report of the work in the Department 

 of Physical Training during the past year : 



Physical training was not required of all students during the past 

 year, but the large majority of them engaged in some recreative activity. 

 This is shown by the fact that the gymnasium was in full use from 8 

 o'clock in the morning to 9 o'clock in the evening, G days a week. 



First year men received training in army physical drill, calisthenics, 

 mass and recreative games. In addition they were given lectures in 

 health education and public hygiene. The second yenv men were given 

 their choice of the aforementioned activities or engaging in Varsity ath- 

 letics, swimming, fencing, apparatus drill, boxing, or wrestling. 



The upper classmen took exercise in intramural athletics. Schedules 

 were arranged for both interclass and iutersociety competition in basket- 

 ball, track, indoor baseball, outdoor baseball, swimming and tennis. In 

 addition, Varsity teams were maintained in football, basketball, baseball 

 and track. Our Varsity teaniis competed with the leading teams of the 

 Western Conference and the Middle West. The football team made trips 

 to the University of Michigan, Marquette University at Milwaukee, Notre 

 Dame University at South Bend, and Butler College at Indianapolis; the 

 basketball team to the University of Michigan, Ohio Wesleyan University 

 at Delaware, Oberlin College and Creighton University at Omaha; the 

 baseball team to the University of Michigan, Notre Dame University, 

 Armour Institute at Chicago, Oberlin College and Bethany College in 

 West Virginia; the track team entered the De Paul Meet at Chicago and 

 the Drake Eelaj^s in Iowa. The track team won distinction at the Drake 

 Relays by winning the two mile college championship relay and the 440 

 yard hurdle race. Minor sports, a new phase of work introduced in our 

 •department included, hockey, swimming, wrestling, and tennis. Inter- 

 collegiate competition was also scheduled, in these sports. 



Physical training for women is required of freshmen and sopliomores, 

 three hours a week, and elective for upperclass women. A physical and 

 medical examination is required of all new students. A general program 

 of calisthenics, corrective work, swimming, which is a required subject, 

 is given to the freshmen. Spor-ts represented are hockey, soccer, basket- 

 ball, baseball, archery, rifle and tennis. Tennis and rifle are Varsity 

 sports. All others are given as interclass sports. Upperclass women are 

 given a complete two year course in physical education, with the view 

 that they will be able to instruct in the same. 



The gymnasium is now splendidly equipped. The great need, however, 

 is the addition of an outdoor athletic plant. Our present wooden stands 

 are nearly wor-n out and entirely Inadequate. The field is too small and 

 the annjial spring floods make it uncertain and unsatisfactory. 



