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Show Page D4 - Sunday, October THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 11, 1992 .ports participation soars KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -Football declined and soccer continued to rise in popularity with high school athletes during the past school year, according to a new survey that found participation overall at its highest level in 13 years. The National Federation of State High School Associations has compiled the survey every year since 1971, based on reports from its member organizations in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The latest survey, covering found participants, up previous year. highest since the ed for the 1978-7federation said 1991-9- 5,370,654 sports 71,983 from the The total is the 5,563,912 reportschool year, the in its report this 2, 9 week. Football remains by far the most popular sport, although the number of participants has been declin-in- g for several years. There were 912,845 participants during the last school year, a decline of 28,-57- 8. As football participation drops, soccer continues to increase, for nation's high schools aft both boys and girls. There were 236,082 boys playing soccer, up from 132,000 in 1979. Girls playing the sport rose from 23,475 to 135,302 during that same period. For boys, soccer has moved ahead of wrestling to become the fifth most popular sport, behind football, basketball (518,127), baseball (433,684) and outdoor track and field (417,451). Basketball remains the most popular sport for girls, with 391,-61- 2 participants. Outdoor track and field was next with 327,183, followed by volleyball with 293,-94- All top 10 girls' sports except volleyball registered increases in participation, led by soccer, up 13,580; tennis, up 6,826; and outdoor track and field, up 6,420. 23,498 and the highest since 1980-85 The number of girls rose to 1,940,801, second highest to the 2,083,040 reported in 1977-7- 8, softball with 221,-51tennis with 139,433 and then fast-pitc- h 0, soccer. In all, there were 3,429,853 in sports during boys participating , . .1 I i . an The release of the new suiiey this week comes after high school principals in Chicago said they in- Texas led all states in high school sports participation with 479,750, followed by California with 461 ,794, New York 291 ,591 , Ohio 274,224, Michigan 262,453, Illinois 252,808, Pennsylvania 211,106, New Jersey 177,064, Washington 152,722 and Florida 150,487. Total inn case uir tend to drop winter and spring sports unless enough money is raised aby Nov. to support them. 1 "We realize that many school districts are having hard times financially, and we certainly hope that something can be done to keep high school sports alive in Chica- said Bnce Durbm, executive director of the National Federa tion. "It is obvious that despite decreases in high school athletic budgets, schools are finding new and unique ways to fund programs. participation in high the federa 6,450,482 in 1977-7tion said. With the exception of a to slight decrease from 1987-8- 8 1988-8participation has risen each year since 1984-88, 1. 48,-48- 9, 8. 5. No upset likely when Eagles visit Kansas City today By DAVE GOLDBERG AP Football Writer Under Buddy Ryan, this game the would have cried "upset" Philadelphia Eagles coming off an emotional win against a division rival taking the road against a good AFC team, Kansas City. Under Rich Kotite, it's a different story. The old syndrome was evident two years ago, when Philadelphia under Ryan broke the New York Giants' 10-ga- season-openin- g winning streak, then went to Buffalo the next week. By the end of the first quarter, the Bills led 24-So here come the Eagles, one of two unbeaten teams in the NFL, going into Kansas City against a lead in team that blew a the final two minutes at Denver last week. Something bad always happens to the Chiefs in Denver, but not necessarily at Arrowhead. This is a game that's been played only once before and that was 20 years ago, when Pete Liske's touchdown pass to Harold Jackson beat Len Dawson and the Chiefs 2 20 at Arrowhead. This time the Eagles are favored by two. They should be. Dave Krieg has done a decent job for the Chiefs. But he also holds the NFL record for fumbles by a quarterback, not a good record to hold when you're going up against Reggie White, Clyde Simmons, Seth Joyner and Andy Harmon, an unknown second-yea- r guy who's coming on nicely. Add in the even-keapproach that Kotite has installed and the good NFC Super Bowl factor teams always beat good AFC teams, you get ... EAGLES, 20-- - H 2 Indianapolis K aHouston 2 0 1 0 H ! 4 4 0 0 3 3 0 0 3 Raiders anDtogo LA 1 1 500 48 .750 94 : mmmjFjjpimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm LIMIT ONE PER CUSTOMER! LIMITED TO STOCK ON HAND! 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