The significance of the study lies in the identification of how multicultural education is addressed in textbooks used to prepare the nation teachers in physical education. Multicultural education is an important aspect of public school education in secondary schools in the United States and many scholars emphasize the diversity of school curricula to include gender equality, disability and ethnicity. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which scholars apply multicultural education concepts in secondary school physical education textbooks. The methods of data collection included examination of each of the textbooks' chapters, indexes, and references to multicultural education. Data were analyzed based on coverage of multicultural education in each of the sections. Five textbooks were selected based on their longevity (4th and 5th editions). The findings included the following: 1) most authors treated multicultural education as an "additive" rather than "transformative" concept, and it appeared heavily on the curriculum section. 2) All of the authors adopted either Banks or Sleeter and Grant multicultural education approaches. 3) Most of the textbook authors emphasized issues related to gender and disability learning with ethnic dimension of learning omitted. 4) Only Harrison, Blakemore, and Buck addressed issues of gender, disability and ethnicity in each of the content objectives; however, these issues were not developed. 5) Only Metzler addressed issues of gender and disability with Banks content integration section and applied an equity-based pedagogy to gender diversity. Arguably, multicultural education was of interest to the authors of the five textbooks. However, they did not develop the concepts extensively to make substantive changes to curriculum and pedagogy. Full incorporation of multicultural education concepts in curriculum and pedagogy and in assessment of student learning is needed for a truly multicultural and social re-constructionist secondary school physical education in the United States. KEYWORDS: Multicultural education, secondary school physical education, textbook analysis