Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the pro¬blems of organizing and conducting the interscholastic athletic programs in Bangkok metropolitan schools. Questionnaires were constructed and sent to 238 school head masters, 238 heads of school physical education departments and 24 personnels of Department of Physical Education. Ninety-three percent of questionnaires were returned. The data were then analyzed in terms of means, and standard deviations. test and one-way analysis of variance methods were also employed to determine any significant difference. It was found that: 1. The main purposes of organizing and conducting in¬terscholastic programs in schools in Bangkok metropolis were: inculcating personal character in youth through sports and physical exercise, improving sports skill and ability and pro¬moting sportsmanship and cooperation. The activities which most of the schools participated in the interscholastic athle¬tic programs were football, basketball, volleyball, and track and field. 2. Problems most encountered by the schools were: the lack of budget in training the athletes, the athletes were poor in academic ability as a result of participating in the programs, to much emphasis on winning, the athletes had to have routine responsibility at home, most athletes had poor skill and ability, most physical education teachers had too much teaching load as a result had no time to devote to the training of the athletes, and the difficulty in supervising and controlling students dis¬ciplines during the games. 3. Problems most encountered by the Department of Physical Education were: the difficulty in securing the budget to finance the program, the difficulty in securing the medical doctor and nurse to be present at the games throughout the game season, the difficulty in supervising and controlling the stu¬dents from carrying the weapon-like to the games, and the diffi¬culty in securing the playing fields to be. adequate to all the matches. 4. The school administrators and the head of school physical education department had different opinions in the problems concerning the methods of selecting the athletes, methods of supervising students as spectators and players, and problems concerning the facilities and equipments at the .05. However, the school administrators, the head of school physical education departments, and the personnel of the Department of Physical Education were of the same opinion concerning the problems on the interscholastic athletic programs.