Lew

After originating the game at Springfield College in 1891, Dr.
Naismith moved to Denver in 1895 to accept a position as physical
director of the Denver Y.M.C.A. In 1898 he came to the University
of Kensas as director of physical education, and immediately began
© ‘ates his new game of basketball, Naturally he worked with the
college players and coaches, and in that way he developed the amateur
collegiate coaching system, His emphasis was that you should play
the ball and not the man, as written in the rule book. The professional
plays the man, and killed the professional game in the east.

The so-called "pick", as they termed it, was a pick-off

' designed to free an offensive teammate for the basket. Naturally

the professional game did not have the ideals of the collegiate game.
The collegiate game flourished in the west and the professional game
died in the east,

These same professional coaches, Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick and
@ great many others still are trying to thrust down the throats of
college coaches the old rae. There are those half-baked, toady
easterners who think that only superiority comes from the east. But
Net Holman should know better than that because he came west once and
met the small Bradley Tech team at Peoria, Illinois, I think the score
was something like this - Bradley 69, City College 27.

I believe it was Nat who said that he would never let a boy
shoot a one-handed shot like Hank Luisetti did when California came
east; and he also said that he would not play against a team that

used a zone defense.