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| Prince of Wales College Intermediate English Rugby Champions of Prince Edward Island, 1936 |
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| By the turn of the 20th century, there was growing recognition within the public school system of the benefits to be afforded by physical education. In Charlottetown, the sports of hockey, rugby, and track and field thrived at school like West Kent and Queen Square. While at collegiate level, sport in the city was pursued enthusiastically by members of its two post-secondary institutions, Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan's College. Rugby, a firm favourite of the British school system, was just one of many sports that the two colleges would adopt over the next fifty years. Others would include baseball, basketball, football, hockey and athletics. At first confined predominantly to schools within urban areas, support from the Provincial Department of Physical Education led to scholastic sport becoming more readily accessible to students in rural schools in the 1940s. The introduction of sport into schools and colleges on the Island diversified the sporting network on Prince Edward Island, taking it beyond the sport club system, and fostering ongoing interest and participation in sport by new generations of young men and women. | | Next>>> | | Previous<<< |
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