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the game of basketball as collected from 61 games was 64,4 minutes,

The distribution of time was divided into seven parts as follows:
(a) the total elapsed time for the FIRST QUARTER was 11,58 minutes, »
divided into 2.02 minutes of activity and 9,56 minutes of non-acte .
ivitys«(6) for intermission between the first and second quarters
was 2 minutes; (c) for the SECOND QUARTER the elapsed time was

12.Q2 minutes, divided into 2,07 minutes of activity and 9.95 min-«.
utes for non-activity; (d) for half intermission between second and
third quarters was 10.38 minutes; (e) for the THIRD QUARTER the
elapsed time was 12.48 minutes of which 2.14 minutes was for activity.
and 10.54 minutes for non-activity; (f) 2 minutes for rest between
third and fourth quarters and (g) for the FOURTH QUARTER the total
elapsed time was 13.94 minutes divided into 2.28 minutes in activity
and 11,66 in non-activity.

The average movements made by forwards, centers and guards
in various groups are shown in Plate III. These groups are "A" repe
resenting all cases timed; "B" all cases excluding those of the STATE
Class "A" Tournament; "8" are Teams I, Ii, III and IV playing through-
out the entire State Class "A" Tournament. ‘The movements of the
forwards, centers and guards are the total elapsed time of activity
in each quarter of 8 minutes of actual playing time. The greatest
average movements in any quarter by positions are those by (1) Be
forwards in the second quarter which amounted to 2 minutes and 31
seconds; (2) B= centers in the fourth quarter= 2 minutes and 38 sece
onds; and (3) B- guards in the fourth quarter= 2 minutes and 24 sece-
oncs, The least amount of activity in any quarter by positions is
that of (1) F- forwards in the second quarter= 1 minute and 51 sec-

onds; (2) H- centers, second quarter - 1 minute 26.6 seconds; and (3)