Abstract

The purpose of this study were: (1) to determine if an off- season conditioning program would result in change as measured by certain easily administrableperformance and body composition measures, (2) to assess the effectiveness of these measures in predicting future classification of players. Fifty-three prospective members of the 1975 Syracuse trained for eight weeks during the winter months of 1975. Certain easy to administer tests of body composition and performance were given before and after the program. MANOVA revealed a significant difference between pre and post test measures. Employing post testperformance and body composition measures and the 40-yd dash, stepwise multiple discriminant analysis was employed to determine the percent of poper classification as starters (S), players (P) and nonplayers (N). Across all players 58.5 percent were properly classified which was significant at the .003 level. It was concluded that training and testing of the type employed was of merit to a major college football program. Verf.-Referat