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play, I am sure that we will be able to obtain shots of play
situations that eventually can be agreed upon as suitable material
for the guide. |

; = We basket ball people owe a vote of
thanks to Mr. Ned Irish, the promoter of basket ball in Madison
Square Garden. The eight intersectional games that Mr, Irish |
promoted in the Garden drew 99,955 just 45 short of 100,000 the
first season out. The best parts of the melting pot attractions
were the clear action pietures taken depicting the intersectional
differences of offensive and defensive play permitted by outstand-~
ing sectional officials. Until we were able to view these differ-
enees on the sereen it seemed unbelievable that such a wide lati-
tude of play interpretations existed. By reproducing shorts from
these action pictures and augmenting them with necessary contro~-
versial aspects of the game much good can be accomplished.

The National Association of Basket Ball
Coaches is also working on a set of pictures hoping to have them
viewed by this body for interpretation or correction.

The Coaches of the country have contri-
buted much research work through their own Research Committee.
Notable among them has been the work of Everett Dean of Indiana
who contributed the paper on "The Effect of Muscular Steadiness
Upon Shooting Accuracy." Pierce Works of the University of Cali-
fornia, Los Angeles, did "Method of Analyzing Offensive Efficiency",
while John W. Bum of Stanford contributed two treatises upon
"Study of Play at the End Lines" and "Comparison of Fatigue Effects
of Two Types of Basket Ball Floors." | |

Your Chairman on Research and Visual
Investigation wishes to thank the members of the committee for
their hearty cooperation and support, especially Mr. Porter for
his sereen play interpretation projects and Mr. Rowe for his re-
port on, "Study of Special Interpretation of Rules."

 

Respectfully submitted,
FORREST C. ALLEN
Chairman of the Committee on
Research and Visual Investigation
FCA: IW

Chicago, Illinois
April 4th, 1935