Handbook of Physical Education and Sports

This hand book is a complete book of collection of comprehensive material on paraphernalia of sports facilities and gives all the relevant knowledge about physical education and sports at all the levels of education, elementary, secondary and higher education. It is evident from examination of the facilities required for neighbourhood park playgrounds and community park-playgrounds that the separate facilities to some extent are not unlike those found in the modern elementary and secondary school. The practical suggestion presents itself that planning of neighbourhood and community facilities for any city should include the play areas and facilities that are inevitably provided in the schools. Considerations of economy dictate that the elementary school, wherever it is located, shall become the neighbourhood playground. This development is not the total answer to the neighbourhood need, however. Useful as the large city school playground areas and facilities may be, they are deficient: first, the ground surface is usually hard pavement; second, their equipment is limited; and third, the great number of elementary school areas in a given city frequently demands that an elementary school must serve more than one neighbourhood. If all elementary schools were administered as neighbourhood park-playgrounds there would still be a need for supplementary areas to provide for neighbourhoods not served by schools. Supplementary areas would also be needed for activities that cannot be conveniently and pleasantly accommodated on the limited school ground.