Dr. Szabó Lajos: A magyar ifjúság testi nevelésének története (A Sportmúzeum Kincsei 5. Budapest, 2004)

A magyar királyi testnevelési főiskola megalapítása 1925-ben

THE COURSES ORGANIZED BY THE NATIONAL GYMNASTIC CLUB and later by the Phyisical Educator Training Institute - under the supervision of the Ministry of Religion and Education -, did not fulfill the requirements of the modern age. The training of physical education specialists At this time physical educators were training already at self-governing institutes, autonomous colleges or at physical education faculties attached to bigger universities. The idea of establishing a teacher training institute (college) in Budapest came to the front only in the 1920ies. The Ministry of Religion and Education confirmed the Rules and Regulations of the Royal Hungarian College of Physical Education on October 16192 The foundation of this College was supported by Jenő Karafiáth, Member of the Parliament and Kuno Klebelsberg, Minister of Culture, ágoston Gyulai, the well-known literary historian was nominated to be the director and Imre Szukováthy to be the director of studies of the College. The Board of Directors were comprised of representatives of the Ministry (Ferenc Bohn), of the Association of Hungarian Gymnastic Educators (Károly Demény and Szilárd Sztankovits) and of the teachers (János Kmetykó, Ottó Misángyi, József Quint). The new institute was accomodated in the buildings of the Teacher Training College of Civil Schools in Budapest. The first entrance examinations were on November 19-11,1925, and after the opening ceremony of December 12,1925 altogether 48 men and 44 women could start their academic year at the Institute. At the same time a well equipped laboratory, the Institute of Sports Medicine (1930) and a special library with several thousand volumes were established. The Sports Club of the College of Physical Education (TFSE) was also founded. By the 30ies the TF became an institute with a European reputation. Foreign students (mainly from Bulgarian, Greece, Turkey, but from west-european countries, too) and professors (e.g. Niels Bukh, Carl Diem) came to study and visit this College. Coaching courses were also organized within the TF where the students could graduate from fencing, swimming, skiing and tennis. Bálint Hóman, the Minister of Culture nominated Ottó Misángyi to be the director of the College in January 1941. The teachers and students of the College played an important role in preparing for the big sports events of the age (Olympic Games in Amsterdam - 1928, in Los Angeles - 1932, in Berlin - 1936). As a result of it and because of the so many successful sports shows of the College, the International Olympic Committee awarded the Olympic Cup to the College of Physical Education in 1938, which is now on display at the Olympic Museum of Lausanne, with the inscription of the institutes to whom the cup has been awarded up to now.