The physical educatuion class had not been a requried subject in many Universitys since the establishment standard of Unversity was amended. It is important that we have a new application to improved physical education class or sports promotion in University. But we had no data about the actual conditions of sports activity of students. The purpuse of this study was to investigate the sports experience and activiy of students in Keio University as the foundamental data when physical education class was a requried subject. We investigated about freshman's sports item and the frequency before entrance of Keio University, d uring 1989-1992. The main results can be summarized as follows :The percentage of sports experience before entrance, in male students was 55%, then in female students that was 38%. The percentage of sports activity after entrance, in male students was 48%, then in female that was 54%. The peak frequency of sports activity in male students decreased from 6 days/week (before entrance) to 2 days/week (after entrance). The peak frequency of sports activity in female students also decreased from 3 days/week (before entrance) to 1 day /week (after entrance). However, the frequency of sports activity before entrance and after entrance were independent of each other. The main sports before entrance in male students were Soccer, Baseball, Basketball, Track Field and Volleyball. Then female's main sports were Tennis, Volleyball, Basketball, Badminton and Dance. The main sports changed after entance :male's that were Tennis, Soccer, baseball, Golf and Ski, then female's that were Tennis,B asketball, Golf, Ski and badminton. Especially, Tennis was an overwhelming majority sports in female students. From these results, we considered that we need to take measures for increasing the frequency of sports activity. In this point, it will be also necessary to investigate sports activity of new students after amending of establishment standard of University. Then, we could consider that Tennis, Golf and Ski were key sports for improving physical education class and sports promotion in Keio university.
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