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"The added height of the basket", continued Dr, Allen, "would measur-
ably clear up the congestion that always exists under the ten foot bask- |
et, The big, rugeed guard who sets himself to block out the incoming man
and the tall mezzanine hurdler who smkexkimee camps near the basket, would —

of necessity have to move back on account of the higher

 

are of dispersement of the bounding ball from a 12 foot basket....By
foreing the defensive man farther back and away from the basket it would
naturally give the shorter and speedier man more area to operate in with
out molestation, It would also strike a blow at the zone defense",
Sri -Aliok eiphedixed that be proposed the cievetion of bestete

to twelve feet for college players only--he would leave the interscholast- ,
ic cage at its present level, largely because a great many present gym-
nasium now utilized by high schools, would not allow the elevation to
12 feet, | —

"The elevated basket will come just as sure as death and taxes",
Dr. Allen concluded, "Phere is no way that the administrators (of the
basketball rules) ean frame a rule that will not be discriminatory and I : 4
am going to get a great chuckle out of watehing these boys that oppose é-
i2 foot basket view those seven foot boys like Kurland, In their con-
fusion, they wouldn't know what to do and they get licked. I am not kiok-

  
  
  
   

ing on my own personal account, but I am endeavoring to improve the game",

And the doctor should speak with authority--since his trams have z
won nineteen championships in the Big Six in the 26 years he has coached
there, And the Big Six produces some of the nation's finest basketball,

cas,