November 1926: Why Men Will Always Be Better at Sports Than Women
November 1926: "Building a New Race of Women" The new intent of women throughout the world in athletics is strikingly shown by this remarkable picture of 14,400 young girls in a stadium in Prague, exercising to music. Popular Science1926 sports aficionados give their opinions on why women can't reach the "masculine standard" This article originally appeared in the November 1926 issue of Popular Science. You can explore more of our archives--stretching back 140 years--here. While tennis and golf were possible--if uncomfortable--in the "sport" clothes of the early years of the current century, speed swimming and track and field athletics, the two other branches of sport in which the woman of today has shown the most interest and the greatest ability, were next to impossible. No girl could run fast or swim fast while hampered in every movement by the clinging folds of useless cloth demanded by a convention of false modesty....