INDIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION, SPORTS AND APPLIED SCIENCE, VOL9, NO 2, April, 2019 Available Online www.sportscientistsviews. com Journal DOI-05-2016-44975451 Scientific Journal Impact Factor-4.917 COMPARISON OF SELECTED SKINFOLDS BETWEEN TRIBAL AND NON-TRIBAL MALE PLAYERS OF HIMACHAL PRADESH Dr. Hari Singh1 & Dr Lakshmi Tara2 Affiliations: 1 Department of Physical Education, Himachal Pradesh. University, Summerhill, Shimla-5, Himachal Pradesh.
[email protected] 2 Village & P O-Lippa District-kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh ABSTRACT The present study has been conducted on 300 players with an aim to find out the difference in selected anthropometric variables i.e. skin-fold between tribal (n=150) and non-tribal (n=150) male senior secondary school players of Himachal Pradesh. Tribal sample were taken from the two tribal district i.e. Lahaul- Spiti and Kinnaur and two tribal tehsil i.e. Bharmour and Pangi of Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh. Non-tribal sample were taken from the three districts i.e. Hamirpur, Bilaspur and Una of Himachal Pradesh. Each player was tested for various skin-fold measurements necessary for estimation of biceps skin-fold, triceps skin-fold, forearm skin-fold and sub-scapular skin-fold of tribal and non- tribal players. To analyze the difference in selected skin-fold of two groups of tribal and non-tribal players were determined through ‘t’ test. From the findings, it has been found that non- tribal players possessed significantly greater triceps skin-fold and forearm skin- fold than tribal senior secondary school players. In biceps skin-fold and sub-scapular skin- fold also non-tribal players possessed slightly greater mean value than tribal senior secondary school players.