National Basketball Rules Chairman Jim St, Clair is troubled by
height trouble - double trouble - height under both the offensive as well as
the defensive basket. St. Clair states that his rules body must “devise a
way to reduce or eliminate the tall player's effectiveness on defense". But
not a word does oer about eliminating the undue advantage of the 7 foot
quran basketball stratosphere giant under the offensive basket. Why
discriminate against the defensive giant while allowing this same altitudinous
chap to dunk the ball unmolested into the offensive basket? "It is plainly
evident that we'll have to do something,” St. Clair says, "if not, stalling
will return."

there is nothing sacred about the ten foot goal height for college
players. Let the rules body quit stalling and install a twelve foot goal
that will forever take care of the double trouble. The rules of basketball
insure the right oe weary player, without interference, of his position on
the floor. How then cm you stop a seven foot skyscraping behemoth from
dunking the ball into a ten foot goal? But a twelve foot goal is another
story. He will have plenty of trouble shooting the ball into a twelve foot
goal, the same trouble that any shorter player will have.

The higher goal will be a real advantage to the little man because
the added height will lessen the taller man's effectiveness by requiring both
men to shoot. The muscles of the eyes are as easily accommodated to height
as they are to distance, hence the highep goal is no more of an obstacle to

a player than shooting from an added distance out on the court.