The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-04-09
PLAN TO REGULATE
PHYSICAL CULTURE
Chicago Director Believed All Stud.
ents and School Boys Should Be
Examined.

ents and School Boys Should Be
Examined.
Chicago, ILL.,, April 9-Director of
Athletics Dana NJ. Evans of North
western University is working out a
new plan of physical examination of
candidates for varsity football and
other except onally fast and hard
sports which, medical authorities be-
lieve, will mean a substantial step
forward in the general program Of
physical supervision of American col
lege sports. The plan will be put in
to effect next session if approved by
the faculty athletics committee.
The plan embraces a scheme for
surprise tests for athletes and for the
average boy and girl more frequent
physical tests. 1t will include the
following:
Examination of the heart, kidneys,
lungs and the taking Of the blood
pressure at various periods, none to
be at established intervals.
| Director Evans thinks that uneX.
pected testing of the heart, the blood
pressure and the kidneys will be an
innovation that will be vastly benefi.
cial
"My plan as outlined in my mind is
to do something that no other
university, so far as | know is doing"
/ he said, More and more am com.
! ing to the opinion that if physical
culture is to be permanently service
able as an upbuilder of future genera.
| tons and If it is to make lasting
contribution to civilization, we must
regulate it within proper limitations,
We must not oyerdo nor underdc We
| must not turn out stars who die be-
fore forty of so-ca..ed athletic heart
nor must we follow an idle or dilly
daily policy
Il think, therefore, that 7 shall
arrange for the surprise test. am
Especially anxious that the blood pres
sure test be made. ! wouldn't at this
time say just how often but we shall
provide ways of determ ming when
the students need these tests. The
beauty Of this plan win be in the
l.better regulation of our exercise pro
gram"
Director Evans talked of the devel,
opment Of football and basketball ma
terial in the same way, declaring that
these super-athletes cannot be turned
out in season
GIVE me the material in rough
form and | will guarantee that our
plan will sort out the good. the in
different and the poor athletes and
allocate each to his own class he
went on 1--WE shall have the most
skillful in all these sports but they
will not be of the war-horse variety
that goes stale soon after leaving the
university The surprise test VII
make that impossible. | shall not
permit under this new plan a young
man, with any serious weakness to
try for the football team No young.
ster may make a try for the varsity
unless he shows a physicians certi
ficate approving IT, Thus, we sail
draw strict lines but rest easy in the
mental assurance that later thele
athletes will be of actual benefit to
society.
There are 1900 boys and girls at
Northwestern in phys cal training now
under Evans supery sion, There
exists a rule for compulsory physical
exercise applicable to all members of
both the freshman and sophomore
classes
No boy nor girl may hone to es.
cape physical education because the
family doctors statement that he or
she has a weak heart weak lungs or
any other serious disability. Direc.
tor Evans takes the weakling in
hand has a physician go over him
carefully and takes notes Of each
physical weakness. The director
then plans physical education for that
person and builds him up.
Card index files indicating the
changing conditions Of all students
are kept and graded.
Classification Of students as to
skill, strength and stamina are
made when they enter the university
and at the end of each season.
Il think vastly more Of improving
the physiques of the mass Of boys and
girls than | do IN perlecting champ
I ion football or basketball machine
Tlirnctor Elyaug saws