Abstract
Abstract This study identified statistically significant relationships between race and the measures of physical fitness included in the AAHPER Youth Fitness Test. Virtually the entire population of fifth- and sixth-grade pupils in a Central Texas county served as subjects. The statistical procedure employed was point biserial correlation analysis. Racial differences in physical fitness generally favored Negro pupils, especially among the boys. The findings of this research reveal that the Negro schoolboys studied exceeded the white boys significantly in five components of physical fitness as measured by the AAHPER Youth Fitness Test while there was no significant difference between their performances on the other two measures. The Negro girls surpassed the white girls significantly on four measures, the white girls surpassed the Negroes on two, and there was no signficant difference in the girls' performances on the one remaining test.
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