Evening star., 1942-08-06
Intend 10 Push
Major Sports,
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IS Basket Ball Tits
And Six Track Meets
Will Be Permitted
BY GEORGE HUBER.

by GEORGE HUBER.
Seventeen new coaches will be
added to District public high schools
this fall to form the staff for the
new emphasized physical education
program to go into effect then.
This is in addition to the seven
men replacing those on military
leave and will raise the total num-
ber OF permanent appointments in
the physical education department
to IS.
Five Of the new coaches already
have been appointed and most of
the others have been lined up, with
assignments awaiting only official
approval
There will be increased emphasis
not only on physical education with
in the school, but in major inter-
school sports as well, according to
Hardy Pearce, head of the depart
ment of health and physical edu-
cation. A compulsory intramural
program will be installed which is
expected to develop many more
major sports candidates than have
turned out in the past.
Some transportation difficulties
are expected. but these will be
worked out by individual schools,
and a big increase of games within
the city is probable, with a conse-
quent curtailment of out-of- town
trips. To help teams find competi-
ton within the city, interleague
football games will be permitted for
the duration. with such games not
to count in the standings.
No Increase in Games.
While major sports will be en-
phasized, there has been no in
crease in the number of football
and basket ball games permitted.
The baseball schedule has been en-
larged from IL to Is games, and six
instead of five outdoor track meets
may be carded by individual schools.
Most of the new coaches will be
given major sports assignments to
spread the load and relieve some
OF the men who now are overbur-
dened with two and even three
sports to handle. Dutch Usilaner
at Tech and ROLAND Lund at Ana
costa, for example, last year han
died three major coaches jobs, while
the majority of the others had two.
This year there will be only a few
men with as many as two sports
during the year. and they thus will
be able to devote more OF their
energy to the intramural and teach
ing program.
Appointments to the various
schools are being made with an eve
to getting qualified man for every
sport in every school, There have
been occasions when two and even.
three football specialists, for ex-
ample, were at one school. with no
one there having experience and
ability for other sports.
Physical Sessions Increased.
Important as will be the consid-
Grafton given major interschool
competitive sports this year, the
main reason for the enlarged STATS.
is the new physical education sched-
ule. Students who heretofore had
physical education classes twice a
week will take five periods, two de-
voted to study and three to gym and
outdoor work. Glasses will be di-
vided into semester groups instead of
the catch-as-catch-can system that
necessarily was in vogue in some
places when students took gym In
convenient free periods with no re-
gard for whether they were in mixed
groups Of sophomores, juniors and
seniors.
The intramural program also will
be compulsory, with students tax
ing part not only in study, exercise
and recreation groups but In COM
petitive athletics as in many OF the
better private schools.
The same changes are being made
In the girls physical education de-
partment. The STATS are being in
creased by IT or 18 and they will
have much the same program as
the boys with the exception of no
interschool competition. The pro-
gram there will be sped up, though,
with more intramural and more
competitive work. There has been
no increase in the junior high
staf1s but school officials hope that
something can be done for them
starting next year after the senior
high program begins to develop.
New Personnel Listed.
The breakdown of new coaches
this: Anacostia increases from one
to two, Central from three to four,
Coolidge from three to four, East
ern from two to six, Tech from two
to six, Roosevelt from three to four,
Western from two to four and Will
son from two to five.
NeV coaches already given per-
manent appointments are: Gilbert
Conn to Coolidge. Edgar Smeltzer
to Tech. Joe Carlo to Wilson Cliff