Comprative study of somatotype between football and hockey players

The present investigation has been conducted on 100 athletes with an aim to find out differences in somatotype among the foot ballers (n=50) and hackey players (n=50). The data far the present study were collected during the inter colleges of Himachal Pradesh University in the session 2008–2009. Each athlete was tested for various anthropometric measurements necessary for somatotype. Somatotype ratings were calculated by the equations developed by Heath and Carter (1990). To compare the somatotype between footballers and hockey players the ‘t ’test was applied. The results indicated that foo/ballers were younger, talle1; and heavier than hockey players. It has been also found that foot ballers were dominant on endomorph component than hockey players and difference was found significant. However hockey players were dominant on mesomorph and ectomorph component than faat ballers and difference was found insignificant.