Indian Journal of Physical Education, Sports Medicine & Exercise Science
Year : 2013, Volume : 13, Issue : 1
First page : ( 10) Last page : ( 18)
Print ISSN : 0976-1101. Online ISSN : 2456-737X.

Comprative study of somatotype between football and hockey players

Dr. Lal Manohar¹, Mrs. Devi Surishtha²

¹Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara (Punjab) Email: manohar.17132@lpu.co.in, Mob.- 09915499322, 08528921791

²Assistant Professol; Gurll Gobind Singh College of Education, Gidderbaha Distl Mukatsar (Punjab)

Online published on 15 April, 2019.

Abstract

The present investigation has been conducted on 100 athletes with an aim to find out differences in somatotype among the foot ballers (n=50) and hackey players (n=50). The data far the present study were collected during the inter colleges of Himachal Pradesh University in the session 2008–2009. Each athlete was tested for various anthropometric measurements necessary for somatotype. Somatotype ratings were calculated by the equations developed by Heath and Carter (1990). To compare the somatotype between footballers and hockey players the ‘t ’test was applied. The results indicated that foo/ballers were younger, talle1; and heavier than hockey players. It has been also found that foot ballers were dominant on endomorph component than hockey players and difference was found significant. However hockey players were dominant on mesomorph and ectomorph component than faat ballers and difference was found insignificant.

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Keywords

Endomorphy, Mesomorphy, Ectomorphy, Footballers and hockey players.

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