The present paper,reviewing the physical education doctrines developed by Richard Mulcaster(ca.1531-1611),an English schoolmaster,concludes that Mulcaster not only made the physical education indispensable to the modern education by transforming the old aristocratic physical training into a tool ben-efiting students'body and intelligence but he also kept the nationalist sentiments existing in the popular i-dea of sports in conformity with the special needs of the time.