The purpose of this study was to compare the speed between private school handball team boys and girls handball team players and government school boys handball team and girls handball team players in the Cuddalore district of Tamilnadu. To achieve this purpose of the study one hundred and twenty players of private school handball team and government school handball team players studying in the various schools in Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu and India were randomly selected as subjects. Among them sixty boys players (thirty boys private school handball team and thirty boys government school handball team players) and sixty girls players (thirty girls private school handball team and thirty girls government school handball team players) were selected as subjects with an age of the subjects were ranged between 13 to 17 years were selected as subjects. The following speed was only selected as criterion variables. The following groups namely boys private school handball team players boys government school handball team players, girls private school handball team players girls government school handball team players were selected as independent variables. The data were collected from boys and girls private school handball team players and government school handball team players on selected criterion variables such as speed were assessed by using 50 mts run respectively and they were statistically analyzed by using 2 x 2 factorial ANOVA. Whenever the obtained ‘F’ ratio value for the interaction effect was found to be significant, the simple effect test was applied as a follow-up test. In all cases, the .05 level of confidence was fixed to test the level of significance which was considered appropriate. There was a significant difference between boys and girls players on speed irrespective of their games (private school and government school). Among them, boys private school handball team players were better speed than other categories of players.