Plainfield High School - Hermiad Yearbook (Central Village, CT)

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THE HERMIAD 9 Athletics are also a great asset to the health of those who participate. Statistics have proved that athletes live longer than the average man. Sur- prisingly, football players averaged better than other athletes, while baseball men had the highest mortality rate. An athlete must be clean in mind and in bodyg he is alert, cheerful, and never lazy. He acquires speed and endur- ance, and is taught to meet hard things in life without fiinching. Through competitive games the athlete acquires sportsmanship which is the greatest asset to himg he must be able to face defeat and say to himself, May the best man win! Every boy dreams of being a second Red Grange, or perhaps a Bill Tildeng and every girl admires Gertrude Ederle and Helen Wills. These boys and girls of today are given their chance to display their ability in their own schools. If they have the ability they are given the opportunity to develop itg and in them may be discovered the champions of tomorrow. The growth of athletics in colleges and high schools has been amazing. Huge sums of money have been spent and invested in athletic plants. Under- graduate and alumni interests have become intense, and at times, hysterical. But as athletics mount in importance, serious students of American Educa- tion, as well as those who are not so serious, never cease to debate the effect and value of athletics on the school. Quia AN ATHLETIC FIELD FOR PLAINFIELD HIGH SCHOOL Uoseph Hawkins-19285 VER since Plainfield High School has been established in its present location the need of an athletic field has been a vital question. At the present time high school athletics are considered to be of great importance in the training of an able bodied citizen. But Plainfield High School is handicapped. Though it has ample land it has no properly developed athletic field and it is inconvenient to carry on major sports. Necessities such as a proper place to change clothes, suflicient lockers and adequate showers are lacking. The field which is used is too far away to be desirable either for home teams or for visiting teams. If the athletic field were near to the school, a larger number of the students would compete in the sports and a greater interest in the athletics of the high school would be shown. More of the student body would attend the games and give support which is now lacking. Not only in interscholastic sports would an athletic field near the school be helpful, but in physical education work and in interclass games as well. Physical training would be more interesting and class competition would be greatly increased.