Athletic Sports (extract)

Physical Characteristics of the Athlete that the man whose measurements all come on the mean normal or typical line represents the ideal type, i.e., the type to pattern after, is to assume that the stand­ ing taken by the average man of a class is more worthy of imitation than that taken by those nearer the top. If this were true, we should be obliged to ad­ m i t t h a t t h e lengths of the upper arm and f o r e a r m a s shown in Chart VII. to come exactly on the mean line were the onlynormal proportions ex­ hibited by this man, and that a l l t h e o t h e r s had exceeded t h e p r o p e r standard. This is not the case. The reverse, however, is true. With a good inheritance t O (.SV^ description, page 95.) 99