The discriminatory no-tap above the basked defensive player rule.
should be known as the N.C.A.A. Basketball Rules Committee folly. ‘They are still
in the horse and buggy stage so far as demienehve ‘basketball rule making is con~
cerned. It is pure discrimination against the defensive player “when a player
touches a try for goal on its downward are above the level of the basket".

On the other hand, they permit a towering offensive player ts dunk
the ball into the basket or to tap the ball into the basket when the ball is on
the rim. In a court of law such obvious discrimination would not be countenanced.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. Some rule must be changed, but no rule
should be made that is discriminatory in character.

Why should altitudinous players be designated as mezzanine-peeping
goons simply because they can reach the basket? Permit Harry "Big Boy" Boykoff
of St. John's, and Milo Konenich of Wyoming, as well as Bob Kurland of Oklahoma
Aggies, and George Mikan of De Paul, and all other versatile stratosphere players
the full freedom of the floor and the air lanes without discriminating against
theme

There is nothing sacred about a ten-foot basket. Dr. Naismith
- mailed his peach basket on the running track at Springfield College and it happened
that the rumning track was ten feet high. The average modern basketball player's
stature has increased one inch for the past ten years. Yet coaches are complaining
about the tall player batting the ball away from the basket, ‘The most simple thing
would be to raise the basket higher then the tallest man can reach or jump. This
one simple act in making a twelve-foot basket only for college and independent
teams (not high school) would clear up 80% of the personal fouls from the players’
drive-in and lay-up and would definitely remove the objection to the hyper-tall

player.