12
5 players in the single game of basketball- it was 46 minutes and
24.4 seconds,

Using the same method to determine the average amount of
activity of Teams I.II,III and IV in the State Class "A" Tournament
the amount of activity was found to be as follows-

Team I= 41 minutes and 27.8 seconds; Team II- 33 minutes and 53.6
seconds; Team III- 36 minutes and 6.6 seconds and Team IV- 37 min-
utes and 18.2 seconds. Comparing the results with those teams out-
side of the State Class "A" Tournament it was found that Team II
was the least active while Team I was the most active.

Table-V indicates the number of times players were active
three or more minutes per quarter. Only 9.5 per cent of the total
cases timed were active three or more minutes a quarter. The per-
centage was small ina state district tournament and in the State
Class "A" Tournament. On the average by positions centers were
most active followed by forwards and then the guards.

In the State District Tournament not a Single forward of
the 28 cases timed moved as much as three minutes a quarter, From
league and non-league games, 41.6 per cent of all centers timed
were active at least three minutes each quarter,

TABLE V - THE NUMBER OF POSITIONS TIMED AT WHICH THERE

WERE 3 OR MORE MINUTES OF ACTIVITY PR

QUARTER WITH THEIR CORRESPONDING PERCENTAGES

 

 

POSITIONS PERCENTAGES
*A= Forwards 5 out of 28 37.8
Centers 10 out of 24 41.6
Guards 5 out of 20 15.0
B= Forwards 6 out of 20 50.0
Centers 3 out of 12 25,0

Guards 3 out of 24 12.5