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...Geer's figures give the actual deaths of the group of Harvard athletes and their comparison to the expected deaths, as revealed by life insurance tables. In every sport the rate favors the athlete. The statistics are as follows: Number of lives Number of deaths Expected deaths Ratio of actual to expected deaths Pct. Crew 159 67 96.52 69 Football 130 48 49.32 97 Baseball 123 38 55.29 69 Track...
...happen to know," said Mr. Geer, "that there were several early deaths in the football group where the cause of death had no possible relation to the individual's participation in athletics. This probably accounts for the higher ratio of actual to expected deaths among the football men. The important point, however, is that the ratio even in this group is in favor of the athlete...
...Geer's work is only a beginning. His field of research is admittedly too limited for very definite conclusions. He has, however, given the impetus to an investigation which will doubtless produce most illuminating results. The statistics contemplated by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company will take in seven or eight leading colleges over a period of twenty-five years prior to 1905. If these statistics substantiate those of Mr. Geer, the charges against intercollegiate competition as detrimental to its participants should be quieted, and the tendency toward the so-called athletic heart should be reduced to a myth...
Rowing has been the most popular of the prescribed sports for Freshmen since the inauguration of the present system four years ago. Mr. W. B. Geer announced before the Society of Directors of Physical Education in Colleges, which assembled at Atlanta, Georgia, on December 27. The statistics show the sports elected by the 2648 men in the last four Freshman classes. The figures are as follows: Rowing 800 Tennis 720 Squash 672 Track 423 Basketball 288 Football 260 Boxing 222 Handball 147 Hockey...
...that year over 80 percent were rated as poor and 35 percent as very poor. Since that time there has been very great interest in the work of body mechanics, which was inaugurated in the University by Dr. Lloyd T. Brown '03, and carried out by Mr. William H. Geer, and his associates. In the Fall of 1923, 68 percent were rated as poor and over 14 percent as very poor. This sudden drop in percentage is due probably to the interest which secondary schools are manifesting in posture work...