Word: geer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Geer, Director of Physical Education at the University, has accepted an invitation from Mr. L. I. Dublin head statistician of the Metropolitian Life Insurance Company, to cooperate with him in compiling detailed statistics on the longevity of college athletes...
...question of lasting benefits and injuries from intercollegiate competition has been dealt with chiefly in generalities in the past, but Mr. Geer has investigated the situation scientifically. At the annual conference on December 29 at Atlanta, Georgia, he announced the results of his investigations. He gave figures showing the percentage of deaths among the 528 "H" men in rowing football, baseball, and track who were engaged in competition prior to 1900. These he compared with the figures for the average young man accepted for life insurance over the same period. His statistics, limited though they are to Harvard University alone...
...Geer will address the assembly of Physical Directors on the subject, "Physical Education Administration at Harvard." He plans to divide his time between the selective system of required athletics for Freshmen and the measures taken with men who receive the grade of D in body mechanics. He will explain the working of the elective system and give statistics showing the popularity of the various sports...
...December 29, the final day of the conference, the Physical Research Society will meet. Mr. Geer has been asked to deliver a report on "The Longevity of Athletes", a subject of which he has made a special study. The society will also discuss the question of "Fool Rules," a study of unnecessary and undesirable athletic rules. Dr. J. Moore Soniat of New Orleans will make the principal address on this subject...
...this year's Conference may seem insignificant. But the fertile question of "Faculty Control of Athletics" will make no little argument, and introduced as it will be by President Angell of Yale, its solution will have considerable weight. And another report of general interest will be that of Mr. Geer, on "The Longevity of Athletes". This has always been a cause for dispute between those who believe that athletes build up their bodies and live longer than the ordinary mortal and those who deal in "athletic hearts" and high blood pressure. The study of "Fool Rules" ought to bring...