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rule 623 take the curse off dof the so-called coaching from the bench.
With pleyers substituting freely the master minding of the coach is reduced
to a minimum.
PERSONAL FOULS TO FIVE
As a case in point of treating symptoms instead of intelligently
studying the eauses, I wish to cite the elimination of the center jump rule
as an example, These rule committee members who advocated the center jump
elimination claimed that the rule would drive the exceptionally tall player
out of the gamee Adl the rule makers did was to edd more out of bound plays
to the already too many and in addition they created this fire wagon, harum=
searum type of game that has placed a heavier burden on the poor officials.
As now played the game leaves the players, officials and spectators fatigued
and dizzy after forty minutes of kaleidoscopic, shuttle=hoekeyized basketball
jargone
{nd the rules body now have with them a taller fellow than they
had ever dreamed, together with a game that cannot be well officiated, Maybe
six or eight personal fouls allowed would be the just and odianem limit con-
sidering the conditions of the games :
Certainly the elimination of the center jump was not the answer for
the seca of this garguantuan player who possesses such an unequal ad-
ventage under a low basket. Before the NCAA Basketball Rules Committee weate
symptoms again without research or study suppose we freeze the rules before
more blunders are made.«
Seienee has now discovered a growth hormone which makes ordinary
rats grow to about the size of small dogss These growth hormones without.
doubt will be in greet demand. Some basketball coaches doubtless will feed

them to their altitudinous behemoths with the idea of developing a flock of