The various team sports assuredly have their place in every school, and they are important to proper physical development.

Schools may also own and operate their own buses for other transport needs, such as class field trips, or to transport associated sports, music or other school groups.

The school owns and runs a sports centre and swimming pool, Kings Fitness & Leisure, with facilities that are used by students as well as residents.

The cheerleaders cheer at basketball, football, and other sports in their school.

Meanwhile, in the USA, cheerleading accounted for 65. 1 % of all major sports injuries to high school females, and to 66. 7 % of major sports injuries to college students from 1982 to 2007, with 22, 900 minors being admitted to hospital with cheerleading-related injuries in 2002.

At West Point, Eisenhower relished the emphasis on traditions and on sports, but was less enthusiastic about the hazing, though he willingly accepted it as a plebe ; he was also a regular violator of the more detailed regulations, and finished school with a less than stellar discipline rating.

At the high school level, it is not uncommon to see multi-purpose goal posts that include football goal posts at the top and a soccer net at the bottom ; these are usually seen at smaller schools and in multi-purpose stadiums where facilities are used for multiple sports.

The school offers a range of men's and women's varsity sports, including football, baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball, track & field, cross country, tennis, and soccer.

Hawks was an average student at school and did not excel in sports, but by 1910 had discovered coaster racing, an early form of soapbox racing.

Haryana even have a dedicated sports school MNSS at Rai, Sonipat which is affiliated to Sports Authority of India.

In his youth, he had no mystical inclinations or experiences, and was " ntroubled as yet by a sense of his own destiny ..." He was more interested in sports, especially cricket, and was co-captain of his high school cricket team.

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It is very rare in competitive sports beyond the high school level.

The rules vary widely, depending on the level of competition, but nearly all youth leagues and high school sports associations, and many college sports associations have mercy rules for sports including baseball, softball, American football ( though not college ) and soccer.

• A " Flaming Smelt " is the tongue-in-cheek mascot of Chicago Great Books school Shimer College, which does not have any sports teams.

* Toledo City League, high school sports league

* Hamilton, Massachusetts, where Patton's summer home was located, dedicated its central park to Patton, boasting a World War II – era tank in the center of town, and the town's school sports teams play under the name " Generals.

His childhood was described as over-protected, but when at school he excelled in sports, mathematics and was head prefect of his class.

The intent was to prevent high school sports from being the focus of the school's funding, and to emphasize the importance of education for the students who participated in sports.

Many small towns in the United States use their water towers to advertise local tourism, their local high school sports teams, or other locally notable facts.

Burton showed a talent for English and Welsh literature at grammar school, and demonstrated an excellent memory, though his consuming interest was sports – rugby ( in fact famous Welsh centre Bleddyn Williams said in his autobiography that Burton could have gone far as a player ), cricket, and table tennis He later said, " I would rather have played for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at the Old Vic.

In 2011 Crandall University got a new mascot for the changes to the school in 2011.

The mascot is the Golden Bengal with school colors of purple and gold.

The school mascot of the high school, junior high, and Connor Shaw is the Blue Devil.

A predecessor of sorts to the World Wide Web, it was named after the school mascot.

The alligator was incidentally chosen as the school mascot in 1911, after a local vendor ordered and sold school pennants with an alligator emblem imprinted on them.

During the course of the show, he has, for example, fathered litters of puppies, passed obedience school, had surgery for bloat, replaced Duffman as the mascot for Duff Beer, and been trained as a police dog at Springfield's Animal Police Academy.

* Temecula Preparatory School, a K-12 school in Temecula, Ca, whose mascot is the Patriot.

The lumberjack is the mascot of Tupper Lake High School in Tupper Lake, New York and pays homage to the timber industry of the Adirondack region in which the school is located.

RIT helped the Seneca Park Zoo purchase a new tiger shortly after SPIRIT's death, but it was not used as a school mascot.

The campaign to eliminate the mascot resurfaced during the 2009 – 2010 school year, as the district renovated the high school's football field ; current plans call for a spear design in the center of the field.

In 2010, the district removed the warrior logo from the high school's sign, replacing it with a black-and-red seal featuring the letter W. The warrior image has been used less frequently since 1999 ; since then, residents have suggested to the school board that the mascot be changed to something representative of Lititz, such as " Wilbur Buds ," a well-known product of the local Wilbur Chocolate Company.

Its mascot is a Bulldog and its school colors are Blue and Gold.

The school mascot is the former Duke of Gloucester.

David Alumbaugh was a member of that class and remembers it was the class that elected the school mascot as the mustang and the school colors of red and black.

The mascot for PCHS is the wildcat, and the school colors are red, black and white.

The school mascot is the Trojan ; and the school colors are blue and white.

Its mascot is the Raiders, and its school colors are red and white.

The school colors are purple and gold, and its mascot are the Bulldogs.

Its mascot is an eagle, and the school colors are red, white and blue.

" Their school mascot is the " Redtop ".