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Sporting Touch Under-11 League: Stockingford v Attleborough Sports (Sean Slinn), Bedworth United v Bedworth Eagles Colts (Dave Rawbone (1pm), Ambleside Colts v Yenton Dragons (Jake Malbasa), Chetwynd Knights v Bulkington Sports (Ron Wilson), Free week Yenton Wanderers.

Sporting Touch Under-12s League: Haunchwood Sports v Attleborough Hawks (Mark Hildreth), Bedworth United v Chetwynd Jets (Dave Rawbone), Westfield Wanderers v Weddington Thistle (Craig Garner), Haunchwood Sports Panthers v Whitestone Sports (Adam Newell), Free week Grove Farm Rockets.

Sporting Touch Under-13 League: Bedworth Eagles Boys v Westfield Spartans (Garry Attwell), Bulkington Sports Braves v Whitestone Sports (Alvin Burton), Frank Parker Dragons v Westfield Wanderers (Jed Vaughan), Free week, Yenton Athletic.

Reg Long Under-14 League: Collycroft Sporting v Hartshill Sports (Martin Attwell), Hinckley United v Weddington Scorpions (Ian Cove), Burbage Old Boys v Bedworth Eagles Boys (Snowy Page), Free week Haunchwood Sports.

Exercise ensured young men's bodies were "made fitting temples of God's Holy Spirit." It was "God's purpose that man should enjoy health." (38) It was essential to "take care of the body, for it is 'fearfully and wonderfully made'." Biblical authority could even be cited that physical exercise was "profitable." (39) Indeed physical exercise was a religious duty in itself, as salvation was at least in part dependent upon "the redemption of the body." (40) The mind too was capable of being improved by sporting participation.

James Laing, a member of a shipbuilding family and the chairman of the Sunderland YMCA saw the Association's sporting achievements as countering the perception of "religious young fellows" as "milksops." Another member thought that even taking up tennis might help to dispel the image of the Christian as "a namby-pamby creature, with a white face, an air of discouraged clericalism, and a Bible always under his arm." (42) Such a realignment of perceptions allegedly reached their zenith during the Great War, when the achievements of sporting YMCA members finally laid to rest this image of the Christian young man as one who gave no trouble to his mother, [and] one in whom his aunts rejoiced." (43)

(48) Given the financial constraints, the sporting facilities that the local Associations could provide were sometimes limited, and often inadequate.

The national sporting culture, defined in strictly white, masculine terms, contributed to bourgeois hegemony by situating subordinate groups within a unified social formation.

Prominent white men with national connections shaped sporting culture in masculine terms, consistent with the larger national identity.(38) Male sports hegemony, however, was never absolute, but had to be constantly renegotiated as the "new woman" emerged in turn-of the-century American society.(39) Women were neither fully manipulated nor victimized through their involvement in sport.

The single-sex structure of separate male and female physical education departments provided women physical educators substantial freedom to promote their own system of sporting values.

The National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA) reports that industry sales rose from $25.2 billion in 1988 to $30.3 billion in 1991, with a 4% increase projected for 1992.

It is widely acknowledged by industry observers that blacks were simply left out of the mix while privately held sporting goods companies boomed overnight.

Williams, a 15-year industry veteran, estimates that even the ABSG would be hard pressed to come up with the names of 120 black professionals in the sporting goods industry.

Innovative applications of newly developed materials from the sporting goods industry, and even outside the industry, provide promise for even better performing products for team sports.

Coaches, athletes and athletic directors will enjoy having more options than ever for sporting goods.