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Scholastic Coach says:

“The book has everything. All of Allen’s basket-
ball savvy went into its making. Every funda-
mental of the game—every type of pass, shot, and
play—has been covered with the great fidelity to
detail characteristic of his coaching.”

BETTER BASKETBALL

TECHNIQUE, TACTICS, AND TALES

FORREST C. “PHOG” ALLEN

PRACTICAL guide for teaching and developing

basketball technique, together with a com-
plete discussion of how the game should be
played. The author explains graphically all of the
latest developments in the game, and through
copious use of diagrams and photographs makes
clear every detail of individual and team play.
The material included is entirely new.

Individual offense, individual defense, team
offense, and team defense are exhaustively
treated. This involves discussion of such little-
understood topics as how to work successfully
through a zone defense, including both “set”
_ plays from scrimmage formation and out-of-
bounds plays. The author also gives thirty-four
“‘set”’ plays and many out-of-bounds plays against
the man-for-man defense. There is a full chapter

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on the new methods of “screening,” explaining
just how and when to execute these plays to the

utmost advantage.

Discussion of these tactics has never been included
in a book before, and should be of great value to
every player and coach.

Individual technique and individual training are
stressed, as the fundamentals upon which the
success of every team is based. Every movement
that a skilled player must execute is presented in
detail. The author also describes a series of “skill
movements,” or drills, by means of which the
fundamentals of play may be taught to groups
without each player handling the ball. These will
be of special value to high school and junior high
school coaches.

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Stories of actual games show how contests have
been won by the use of applied psychology, even
when all the cards are stacked against the team.
These stories are full of the little human touches
which can be used to turn defeat into victory.
The author is a master of the kind of psychological
strategy which causes men to outdo themselves
and upset an unfavorable score even under adverse
conditions.

A most comprehensive chapter on the treatment of
athletic injuries explains to the coach-trainer how
to keep his players in the game. Actual tapings,
bandages, and braces are shown, in photographs
and descriptions, together with pictures of real
sprains and strains and directions for their proper
treatment. Diet and conditioning are given
special attention by the author, who has been
able to restore many injured athletes to game con-
ditions much earlier than under the old methods.

The success of a coach is often determined by his
ability to dramatize a game and to provide excep-
tional entertainment between halves. The author
goes thoroughly into the important subject of pre-
game and between-game activity and shows the
manager and coach many possibilities in drawing
patrons to the games who might not continue to
come for the game attraction alone.

In short, Better Basketball is a complete treatment
of the subject. It incorporates everything that a
player, coach, official, trainer, or manager of a
team needs to know about his own special phase
of the game. Nothing has been omitted to make
this the most up-to-date, complete, and interest-
ing story of this great indoor game yet written.

163 action photographs
86 diagrams of plays

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