15

 

 

A B
CENTER 7241.0 6:04,.0
GUARD 4:08,0 3339.0

 

TIME CONSUMED FOR ENTIRE GAME

In this part of the study is included the timing of the
entire game as divided into quarters, interruptions and intermisse
Lons |

The average elapsed time consumed in playing each quarter
is indicated in Table IX, First, the average of the 61 games is
shown, It will be noted that greater time is used for each subse-
quent quarter, It took on the average of 2.36 minutes more to finish
ee fourth quarter than the first quarter, The 61 games are divided
into 5S groups. The time necessary to terminate each quarter was less
in the State Class "A" Tournament (F-Table IX) than in any other group,

The actual playing time according to high school rules is
8 minutes per quarter, The groups in Table IX consumed from £62 to
6.45 more minutes to complete each quarter than according to high
school rules. This additional time was for interruptions,

TABLE IX «+ TIME IN MINUTES CONSUMED IN PLAYING EACH QUARTER

 

 

 

NUMBER OF FIRST ~ SECOND THIRD FOURTH

GAMES QUARTER QUARTER QUARTER QUARTER
the 61 ‘£2988 12:02 12:48 13394
Be 13 12:30 13:00 13:00 13:92
C= 7 11:14 12:28 12:14 14:57
D- 10 12:05 11:30 12:50 13:60
Be 15 11:86 12:75  . 12:93 14:93