The paper presents the results of a study of bibliographies compiled from the theses submitted in physical education and sports sciences in the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The bibliometric characteristics including state wise, university wise, area wise, year wise break-up, gender analysis of research scholars and guides, and most number of theses supervised, collaboration in authorship, etc. has been presented. The study provides salient features of account of theses awarded in the field up to 2010.