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With the wu of the center jump the desire was to ascertain certain

facts concerning the douentied fast broak that the new vei night encourages

       
   

The Big Six C rence coaches agreed in a pre=season committce mecting

to gather and sendin ce fnffacts fr my fa of their conference contestse

some of their gamos% ,
Some rather interesti
enee play the average time f th individual movement across tho division line
was 457 seconds. : The number of held balls during an entire game dn our cone
ference was ascertained, . and lastly the possibility of scoring ficld goals after
the toss-up, when the held ball was brought to the circlo, was also detorminedé
The study is summarized as follows:
1. Length of timo consumed in bringing the ball across the division line unis
a goal or free throw had becn made; complete infornation from 18 ganes shows
that:
(a) the act was performed 586 times for an average of 31.64 tines per ganc
(b) a total time of 2527.1 seconds was used for an average of 140.4
seconds per game, or 2 mine 34 scce
(c) the average time for cach individuel movoment across the line was
4.57 sccondsSe
2 Number and location of held balls during games; complete information from 24
gones shows that:

(a) held balls occurred 220 times in one end circle for an average of

9el per gancs