A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON SELECTED ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF RURAL AND URBAN SCHOOL FOOTBALLERS

The main aim of this study was to find out the differences of anthropometric measurements between urban and rural school footballers. For the present study 120 male subjects (N=120) from rural and urban secondary school football players were selected from five (5) district in western region of West Bengal. Sixty (60) subjects were selected each from rural and urban secondary schools. In case of Twelve (12) rural and Twelve (12) urban subjects were selected from each district with the help of simple random sampling method, those who were participated Sub-divisional football tournament at least two years were selected for the current study. The subject’s age ranged between 14 to 16 years. Anthropometric measurements such as Weight, Height, Hip circumference, Chest circumference, Upper arm circumference, Thigh circumference, Upper leg length and Lower leg length were taken as the variances of this study. The selected variables were analysed by using independent ‘t’ test. The result of the study found that there is significance difference of anthropometric measurements between urban and rural school footballers except Upper arm circumference.