Analysis of Cardiovascular Endurance between Football players and Hockey players

The present study is intended to study the difference in cardiovascular endurance between football players and hockey players. This study would enable to select suitable students for particular in specific activity such as Football and Hockey. It would help to select college boys participating in Football and Hockey. This study will help the teachers, coaches and players to know the effective training method for the improvement of ball sense. For the purpose of study, 15 male players of each game from Football and Hockey of the department of PESS, and other departments of Manipur University, Canchipur, Manipur, India who have participated at minimum inter-college and state level competitions. The subjects were between age group of 18-25 years. It was hypothesized that there may be significant difference on cardiovascular endurance between football and Hockey players. Harvard step test was administered to test cardiovascular endurance. The results were found that between the two games, Football players are seen to have superior performance than hockey players because of the difference in nature of the movements. For analysis and interpretation of data ’ t’- test statistical analysis were conducted. The level of confidence was fixed at 0.05 levels.