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The fact that the tall boys can prevent the ball from going through
the basket¥~ by goal tending, is not one of the Doctor's objections to the
ten foot basket at all. Rather, he points out in his letter to Cannon,
the discrimination is in favor of the offense rather than the defense.»
"If the ball is on the rim of the -basket", he wrote, “the offensive
man may push it in, strike the ball, bat it in, or strike the rim when he
dunks his arm about eight inches through the rim with the ball, and the
goal counts in all of these situations, But a defensive man guarding the
oak aay not tap the ball or reach over the perpendicular plane of the
pasket in knocking the ball away from the hoop, Again, if the ball should
be on the edge of the basket and the defensive man should knowk it off or
touch the goal twp points are scored for the offensive side,"
So Dr. Allen is not one of the coaches who are erying because he can't
beat the “mezzanine peeping basketball hurdlers", The Doctor calls the
tall boys "mezzanine hurdlers" because they are tall enough to reach the
mezzanine floor, Not at all--for his Kansans last year defeated several —
of the nation's crack outfits whd had stars over six and a half feet tall,
The second of the Doctor's most intense arguments against the bask=
et at the current level is that 80 per cent of all fouls in basketball are ~
committed under the basket--inside the free throw area--by the drive in and
lay up attempt at the goal, ae
"A hard drive toward the basket which produces 80 per cont of
all the fouls by the defense in basketball are made for this very ob-
vious reason", he said, “because a player driving in for the basket is
fouled, or draws a pair of fouls and the official awards the offended ¥
player two free throws, If you could cut out 60 per cent of the fouls
and practically all of the double shots caused from players throwing these
goals, then you wuld have a much cleaner, open game where field goal Ng
shooting would be the dominant point rather than foul shooting which Ee 5
seems now to be the case", |

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