The objective of this work was to investigate the professional trajectories of the professors in the Escola de Educação Física e Desportos (EEFD/UFRJ) in their first moments of practice at the University. The period selected was between 1976 and 1980, because was the moment that the professors investigated became members of the institution. This research elected 1976 as an initial year because was when one of the first groups of the new curriculum finished the course and 1980 as the last year, when the post-graduation started in the EEFD. The documents consulted, classified and analyzed were: the School Regiment of 1972; the record of the Departmental and Congregation meetings; other official documents and the data from six interviews. The study presents three chapters: the first one investigates the EEFD, the institutional program and the public service exams to enter in the institution; the second shows how these respondent professors entered in the EEFD; and the last one indicates the slump process of the institutional program and the reports of the practice in the period. The results present the institutional program acting as a relevant aspect in its relation with the trajectories in the personal, academic and professional ways and in consonance with identity. The ways of criticize their own formation and the efforts to change their practice show the connection between the institutional program, the trajectories and the identity. These professors had a critical knowledge but were comprehensive with the traditions and conceived the experience in the 80s as a crucial moment to the stability of the new group.