the case against boring as a part of the physical education program
1. Competitive boxing is questionable. meyers reported in 1953 that the NCAA boxing
Rules committee recommended a scoring system in which"...although skill is recognized as the criterion-not force-special consideration is give to blows which result in knockdowns."
2. boxing is more dangerous than other sports. Steinhaus be-lieves than the method of reporting accidents results in misleading statistics. "Bodily injuries taken for granted in boxing are reported as accidents in other sports."
...based on deaths per 100,00 participants professional boxing is 83 time more deadly than high school football and 50 time more deadly than college football.
3. Most of the strength and endurance developed in relation to boxing is a result of training activities rather than actual boxing The strength and endurance could be developed apart from boxing.
4. the self-defense skills learned through boxing will not stand up against wrestling or jiujitsu. the skills learned in these two sports will prove more beneficial to a man or boy in the type of fight he is likely to get into.
5. the primary aim of the sport of boxing is injury to the opponent."boxing is not a sport but savagery." it"...appeals to the worst in participants as well as spectators.” Steinhaus quotes Kenney
william E. Harlan, A Study of Boxing in Selected Colleges and Universities, The Research Quarterly,21 (December