ANALYTICAL STUDY OF SELECTED MOTOR FITNESS VARIABLES OF RURAL AND URBAN SECONDARY SCHOOL FOOTBALLERS

The main aim of this study was to find out the differences of selected motor fitness variables between urban and rural Secondary 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. In this study following Motor Fitness Variables were taken into consideration, Agility, Muscular strength (leg), Speed, Abdominal muscular strength, Static Balance. The data collected for each variable administering their respective tests. The selected variables were analysed by using independent ‘t’ test. The result of the study found that there is significance difference of motor fitness variable between urban and rural school footballers.