Once they had received training, the boys and girls would compete against each other.

More than 4,000 boys and girls from 161 high schools in the East competed.

The Games occur, all the boys compete in their events.

Either because of custom or state law, most American boys do not compete.

For every boy currently competing in high school volleyball, more than eight girls are involved.

Among the 18 states with field hockey programs, Massachusetts is one of only three in which boys compete at the high school level.

There are about two matches each week in which boys and girls from different classes compete.

On the final Friday of the school year the boys compete for their houses in the house athletics competition.

Boys and girls may compete for parents' love, but their relationships to one another are, at best, epiphenomenal.

This is to avoid a situation where boys and girls from the same school do not compete in the same class.