Girl Athletes Research Articles

Monograph on Athletics for Girls and Women

Monograph on Athletics for Girls and Women

Report of the Advisory Committee on Athletics for High School Girls

Report of the Advisory Committee on Athletics for High School Girls

The athletic association of North Carolina high‐school girls

The history of education is a story of costly experimentation, of victories gained through losses, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the field of physical education for women. The demand of the girl ten or fifteen years ago for participation in sports, which she had enjoyed only vicariously up to that time; the lack of trained women capable of meeting the challenge wisely; the bungling attempts of some of our high-school principals, who, with zeal unguided by wisdom, flung girls into the arena of combative sports, with little insight into their physical and spiritual needs-these things are only too familiar to all of us who have watched the high-school field for the last two decades. For years basket ball was the only sport open to girls. The reasons for the popularity of this much-abused sport are not hard to discover. Few schools had trained physical directors for girls, but it was usually easy to find in the faculty or in the town a man who was not only willing, but highly delighted, to coach a girls' basket-ball team. It was also easy to interest the men of a town in a game so spectaculabr; hence, the necessary funds were forthcoming. Girls were sent on long trips to compete with far-away opponents. The coach was a man, the referee a man, and the chaperon a woman who knew nothing of the game. The dressing rooms were usually inadequate, and the conduct of the spectators was often unsportsmanlike. Frequently girls entered the game who were not physically fit for the bodily and mental exertion. Conditions such as these resulted in a division of opinion. There were those who believed in athletics for girls, and there were those who did not. From many colleges, whose physical education experts viewed the wrecks, came condemnation of the high-school practices. Their advice, which was usually, Thou shalt not, fell on deaf ears; for, though they saw the evils, they offered nothing in place of the things they condemned. The young teacher who went from the college to the high school imbued with the idea of putting on a real educational program for girls found herself overwhelmed by opposition-from the townspeo-

Athletics for Girls and its Problems in the High School

(1917). Athletics for Girls and its Problems in the High School. American Physical Education Review: Vol. 22, No. 7, pp. 427-431.

A Plan of Athletics and Honors for High School Girls

(1917). A Plan of Athletics and Honors for High School Girls. American Physical Education Review: Vol. 22, No. 7, pp. 420-426.

Book Reviews

Abstract Club Exercises. By Joseph Cermak. Published by the author, 2533 South Central Park Ave., Chicago, Ill., 1916. Illustrated. 217 pp. Price $1.25. Amateur Circus Life. By Ernest Balch. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1916. Illustrated. 190 pp. Price $ The Child in Human Progress. By George Henry Payne. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1916. 400 pp. Price $2.50. The Amateur Philosopher. By Carl H. Grabo. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917. 290 pp. Price $1.50 net. Development of Personality. By Brother Chrysostom, F. S. C. Published by John Joseph McVey, Philadelphia, 1916. 379 pp. Price $1.25 net. Gymnastic Problems. By Jakob Bolin. Published by Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York, 1917. 164 pp. Price $1.50 net. Tennis for Women. By Molla Bjurstedt. Published by Double-day, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y., 1916. 175 pp. Price $1.25 net. The Four Epochs of Woman's Life. By Anna M. Galbraith, M. D. Published by W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1917. 296 pp. Price $1.50 net. Manual of Wrestling. By Wilfred E. Cann and Wm. W. Hastings. Published by W. E. Cann, Elizabeth, N. J., 1917. 237 pp. Price $2. Elements of Military Education. By W. A. Brockington, M. A. Published by Longmans, Green & Co., New York, 1916. 363 pp. Price $1.50 net. Universal Military Education : The Swiss System for the United States. By Lucien Howe: Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1916. 138 pp. Price $1 net. Singing Games and Dances for Schools and Playgrounds. Compiled and arranged by Carl Ziegler. Published by The Willis Music Co., Cincinnati, 1914. 48 pp. Price 60 cents. American Sailor. By George Martin Caskey. 1917. 10 pp. Price—Dance, 75 cents. Music, 25 cents. Education Physique des Adolescents. By G. Demeny. Published by Felix Alcan, Paris, 1917. 157 pp. Price, 2 fr. 50. Making a Man. A Manual of Athletics. By Wm. Greer Harrison. Published by H. S. Crocker Co., San Francisco, 1916. 72 pp. Price $1.25. Athletic Training. By S. E. Bilik, D. P. Published by S. E. Bilik, Urbana, Ill., 1917. 107 pp. Price $2. Emergency Surgery. By John W. Sluss. Published by P. Blakiston's Sons Co., Philadelphia, 1917. 848 pp. Price $4 net. New Rational Athletics for Boys and Girls. By Frederick J. Reilly. Published by D. C. Heath & Co., Publishers, New York, 1917. 139 pp. Price 64 cents. Health and Disease; Their Determining Factors. By Roger I. Lee, M. D., Professor of Hygiene in Harvard University. Published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1917. 378 pp. Price $1.75 net. Life Saving. By George E. Goss. Published by The Association Press, 1916. 16mo. 151 pp. Price 75 cents.

The Right Kind of Athletics for Girls

(1916). The Right Kind of Athletics for Girls. American Physical Education Review: Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 369-375.

Physicians' Liability Insurance — Athletics for Girls — The Nobel Prizes — Euthanasia — Medical Notes

Physicians' Liability Insurance — Athletics for Girls — The Nobel Prizes — Euthanasia — Medical Notes