I challenge the N.C.Acke Basketball Rules Comittee or the National Coaches
- Association to show one substantial research project accomplished in the past ten
yourse

Froese the yules for & three-year perked with the intention ef formating « research
committee for intelligent rules study and research.

‘Instead of the M.G.AcA. comfisoating the major portion of the basketball gate re-
eeipts for a “hobby pot", insist that a Basketball Foundation be formed with research
tr cumpotent fulh the nus te shuly the vital nents of (en putts

TH MEW INJURY RULE PERMITTING THE OFFICIAL TO CALL TDM OUT
: POR INJURY FOR BITHER SIDE.
the new injury rule is an old rule in a new garb. There was a time when wily and
unprincipled coaches taught their players to fake injuries when the opponents had the
ball in a favorable scoring position, The rule hed to be changed to the one just
abolished, Since officials cannot rule on intent, doubtless this new rull will plague
the effieials and rule makers before muy mouthe. |

UNLIMITED SUBSTITUTION RULE
Again the basketball rules committee has been fust asleep on the free substitution
rule. Football has had it in operation for several years using double the number of
_ players with splendid success. Taig leg overdue rule will tele the cures eff of the
 s0ecalled coaching from the bench, With players substituting freely the meter minding
of the coach is reduced to a minimum, |

PERSONAL FOULS 10 FIVE

As & case in point of treating symptoms instead of intelligently studying the causes,
_ Iwish to cite the elimination of the canter jump rule as an example. These rule
“quamittes nenbers whe advecnted the carter jump elixtmtion clained that the rule would
drive the exceptionally tall player out of the game, All the rule makers did was to