Show lEN BETTING BIGGER AMERICA IS THREATENED WITH A RACE OF GIANTS College Boys Growing Larger Every Year According to Statistics Gathered at YaleTesta of Ten Years Ago Now Haven Conn Tho American citizen of the future Is to bo a giant according to the statistics of the athletic ath-letic Instructors Dr Born medical director of tho Yale gymnasium has made public the 1DOS statistics of development de-velopment In tho university For tho comparisons 500 athletes from tho crow the football and bucclmll teams the track men and tho student athletes generally were measured rho general average Is compared with the averages taken In 1903 and the 1908 averages are generally higher than had boon expected Tho now college col-lege man has grown an Inch and one half In five years Ho has gained 27 pounds In weight Mid has 72 cubic Inches mom lung capacity than his prototype of live years before Tim list bears out the assertion commonly made during recent years that the American man was becoming renter physically than any known race of men has over been The comparative measurements given out by Dr Born are ions law Height 4 O0 In KM In Weight 1705118 149 His Lung capacity 314 oil In 272 cu In Shoulders 17 In 1GG In Neck 15 In 141 InS Client SS3ln In-S In Inxnlrntlon 401 In 37T In Wnlst 310 In 197 In Bleeps 131 tn 131 In l < orenrni 112 In 108 In night thigh 229 In i 21 In lllKht calf 143 In 142 In j The most thorough tests made In this country were published ten years ago when statistics were taken from many sources showing tho gradual increase In-crease in height and weight of American Ameri-can men and women Then tho average height was found to be about 68 Inches chest measurement meas-urement 38 Inches with Inflated chest 40 Inches waist 28 Inches hip 32 Inches thigh 21 Inches calf 14th Inches and weight 160 pounds Then It was said that a glance over 20000 college men showed nn average av-erage Increase In weight for 40 years of three pounds ana an average Increase In-crease In height of an Inch with tho freshman classes showing two inches better average than their fathers had shown Tho average was likewise shown to have gained an Inch in height and five pounds In weight Thq records have not been kept with any uniformity cither as to ages and numbers tested or as to form of recording re-cording the measurements but the general indication is that the human family as typified by the American college boy Is growing and developing In weight In height nnd In the general gen-eral points that go to mako up the units of strength None of the now averages for women wom-en has been produced but the last general record showed an average height of five feet seven Inches weight of 126 pounds bust of from 28 to 36 Inches waist of 24 Inches and neck of 13 Inches |