Jorge Bartolome Vargas, Executive Order No. 4
“ Bureau of Physical Education.—It shall be the duty of this Bureau to encourage systematic physical exercise and education, to promote and improve athletic sports among amateurs, to establish and maintain a uniform test of amateur standing and uniform rules for the government of all athletic sports, to institute, regulate, and award national amateur athletic championships, to organize and direct the training of athletes to represent the Philippines in international contests, and to encourage and promote the establishment of public playground and recreational facilities. ”
