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CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS

“Phog” Allen is perhaps the best-known
basketball coach in the United States. At
present Basketball Coach and Physical Ed-
ucation Director of the University of Kan-
sas, he has the longest collegiate coaching
record in the country. In twenty-seven
years he has turned out twenty-one cham-~
ionship teams, two of them undefeated.

ow he makes all of his invaluable expe-
rience available for you in his new book—

BETTER
BASKETBALL

By FORREST C. ALLEN

BETTER BASKETBALL is a complete,
new, up-to-date, practical guide for teach-
ing and developing winning basketball
teams. eee starts from the ground up.
He tells you how the game began, why it
has changed, how to officiate, how to or-
ganize a team and select the men, how to
build team spirit, how to build box office
appeal, how to dramatize team play, ete.

Demonstrates every phase of
Tactics and Strategy

All the latest developments of the game are
graphically explained. Hundreds of tested
diagrams and close-up photographs show
| clearly how to handle every detail of win-
ning team and individual play. Shows how
|to work through a zone defense, including
‘set’? plays from scrimmage and out-of-
bounds; 34 successful ‘‘set’? plays and
many out-of-bounds plays against the man-
for-man defense; and innumerable other
tactics. Also a whole chapter on new
methods of ‘‘screening’. and how and when
these plays should be used.

Individua! technique
and training stressed

Every movement that a skilled player must
execute is shown in detail. Also described
are a series of ‘‘skill movements” or drills
| invaluable in turning raw recruits into
| champions. Moreover, the author shows
how applied psychology can often win
games, and gives examples.

A whole section is given to the treatment
of athletic injuries, whereby players can
be kent in the game or brought back in
the line-up ‘much ealier than under old
methods. Diet and conditioning are given
| Special a'tention.

In short, BETTER BASKETBALL tells
everything a player, coach, official, trainer
or Manager needs to know about his own
pen ee i the —— aoe has
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the subject ever written, Pee eee SS
‘ +3 168 action~photo-
graphs
86 diagrams of
plays ©

$4.00

Examine it
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