Motor ability status among national level male players of contact and non-contact games

For the purpose of the study, sixty (N=60) national level male players of contact games (twenty for each game i.e., football, hockey and basketball) and sixty (N=60) national level male players of non-contact games (twenty for each game i.e., volleyball, cricket and baseball) from Chandigarh were selected as subjects of the study by using purposive sampling technique. The age of the subjects ranged between 19-25 years. To assess motor ability status, Barrow General Motor Ability Test (1957) that is consist of three items named zigzag run (agility), standing broad jump (power), medicine ball put (strength) was used. To find out the significance differences ‘t’ test was used with the help of SPSS software. For testing hypothesis, the level of significance was set at 0.05. No significant differences were obtained between contact and non-contact games on zig-zag run and standing broad jump. Significant difference was obtained on medicine ball put between contact and non-contact games. The finding reveals that national level players of non-contact games have performed significantly better than players of contact games on medicine ball put.