From past to present the research on the physical education, sports and game culture of Elazığ

It is aimed with this research that in Elazığ for past to today collect informations about physical education, sport and game culture, constitute written source and make a current condition's fixing. This research's universe is Elazığ. In this research for information's collection historical (retrospective) method and questionnaire method was used. For fixing physical education, sport and game culture's today's situation in Elazığ, questionnaire was carried out first, middle and high school's students who selected by chance about 9 and 16, 397 girls and 558 men in all 955. The questionnaire's datums were evaluated by using SPSS statistic packet program. It was fixed that in Elazığ sport's activities' start extends as far as 17. Century and it is based on wrestling, hunting, marksmanship, horsemanship, javelin. It was fixed that in Elazığ and Harput beginning from 1885 different sports activities (races, jumps, and games etc.) are made at military, state schools and alien college and in some schools lesson, whose name is "Body education, Terbiye-i Bedeniye ve Usul-ı Tedris ve Tatbikat" is educated. In Elazığ first sport club was founded in 1915 with name "Gençler Birliği" but contemporary sport studies started in Turkish war of independence years. Studies which were made after this year are largely about physical education, horsemanship, marksmanship, football, volleyball, lift weight, athletics, gymnastic and pyramid actions. First sport club's foundations in Elazığ put into service following years after 1930. Sport activities accelerated after 1950 and first amateur league was founded in 1954 football in branch. Including 2004, 5330 licensed sportsman and 33 clubs have activated in Elazığ.When physical education, sport and game culture's today's condition is researched, it is fixed that students', who are about 9 and 16 ages, % 7.3 are in a sport club, % 40.6 are in school's activities and % 52.1 don't make any sport branch. From the point of game culture, it is observed that students' preferences' % 86.1 are "Computer games", % 70.7 are "Mental games", % 62.6 are "Play station games" and % 49.8 are "Child games". About traditional game culture, it is found that student's % 54.3 are well-informed but % 45.7 aren't well-informed, among traditional sport branch, which are student well-informed, it's % 46.4 are "Oily wrestling", % 29.1 are "Javelin game" and % 28.8 are "Marksmanship and Hunting". In conclusion, it is come into view that in our city physical education, sport and traditional game culture left it's place in computer games and different sport branches with rapidly developing and exchanging technologic, financial, social and cultural growth, differentiation among sport branches and television broadcasting, and it is come into view that our children went away from our traditional game culture. Key Words: Sport, culture, game, traditional sports