GAMES GIRLS SHOULD NOT PLAY.
ADDRESSING a large gathering of school teachers at Palmerston yesterday, Air H. Longworth, Chief Physical Instructor for the New Zealand Education Department, speaking of games, condemned foolball for girls. He said football was not a girl’s game, as it was too rough, and the element of risk in straining the body internally was always present. Girls who did not play football would, when the time came, make better mothers to healthier children than would be born of more athletic mothers. Hockey was detrimental to the health of most girls, though some .were hardy enough to offset any ill-effects. The ideal game for girls was basket-ball, since it exercised the majority of muscles and thg risk of strain inwardly was not great.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2304, 19 July 1921, Page 2
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126GAMES GIRLS SHOULD NOT PLAY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2304, 19 July 1921, Page 2
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