September 16, 1945. lige Jeanie Chiles, independence, Missouri. Dear Miss Janie: Some one very kindly sent me the Section B sheet of the -Independence Examiner as of Friday, September 10. This page carried a very fine tribute to your wonderful teache ing skill and exceptional personality. I read the paregraph where I was not one of the recalcitrants. Really, Wiss Janie, I thought Iwas. I think I caused you 4 lot of grief, but it is a wonderful thing that when a person grows older the memories of the rascal who caused you so mush trouble become dim with forgiveness. I want to congratulate you on the exceptional record © that you made and the wonderful contribution that you rendered to youth in Independence. You are a symbol of friendliness and cooperative endeavor. And my wish for you is that you have many, many more days to remamber the lovely things of life which you always exemplified. With all good wishes, I an, : Sincerely, Your admirer, Director of Physical Bducation, FCA:AH 3 Varsity Basketball Coach. Miss Janie Chiles Reminisces Over Forty ‘Years of Teaching Chrisman Mathematics Instructor, While Admitting the Profession Actually Chose Her, Says She Would “Do the Same Thing Again’—Numbers Hundreds of Successful Business and Pro- fessional Men as Pupils. ~ “Would I choose teaching again, if I could go back and start over?” ' Miss Janie Chiles, mathematics in-} structor at the William Chrisman| High School, smiled! at her ques- tioner and in her eyes was the sparkled fondly for each of the i the old Ott School. even a-guess as to how many of the city’s children she had taught in her years in the school system, but jokingly said, “Why, it seems to me that I have taught at one time or another nearly everyone Jin town.” She peindinbeks especially some of the members of her first class Dr. a rest C. (Phog) Allen, nationally known director of athletics at the ‘University of Kansas, was a mem- ber of that class and while a ind a place in her room, Miss same youthful twinkle which maine number of recalcitrants did hundreds of pupils whose career she has helped to shape in the forty-two years that she has serv- ed the Independence school sys- tem. “Of course I would choose teach- ing again. I enjoy the work and refuse to think too much about the years that have passed, so my contact with the continually flow- ing stream of young people keeps me at least from feeling old.” “But,” she smiled reminiscently, “T really didn’t choose teaching, anyway, in the first place. The job chose me. I had thought about the possibility, of course, and felt sure I would like to be a teacher. I had graduated from Woodland College in Independence and had helped to some extent in instruct- ing undergraduates at the school. But it was when President C. A. Wood of Kansas City Junior Col- lege wrote Prof. George S. Bryant, the head of Woodland College of his need of an instructor and Prof. Bryant recommended me that I suddenly fell into the profession.” ~ “Miss Janie,” as she is affec- tionately called by her myriads of alumni and alumnae in Independ- ence and all over the country, taught for a short period at Jun- jor College and showed such effi- cienzy in her work that J. N. Patrick, then schools in Independence, asked her to come here to teach and she ac- superintendent of fJanie says that he definitely was not one of them.¥ She also re- members that Floyd Burrus, who now lives at the corner of River Boulevard and Van Horn Road, was one of her pupils at that time. Miss Janie remained at the Ott School only two terms when she was moved to the Central High School in the old Junior High School building which burned a few years ago. During her first year there she taught both Eng- lish and history but after that term she was assigned to teach mathematics and has been teach- ing high school students the in- tricacies of algebra, geometry and trigonometry ever since. Dr. Paul Rider, professor of mathematics at Washington Uni- versity at St. Louis for many years and now an exchange professor teaching at the University of Mex- ico, is among the famous men she has helped along the way.’ Law- rence Gregg, with the Bethlehem Steel Company, is another of her pupils who has made good. Marion Crews, representative of the Boeing Aircraft Corporation at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, was one of her finest pupils. He re- ceived his high school diploma about the year that the William Chrisman High School was com- pleted and the.old building was given over to the use of the board asa junior high school. sat at her feet and learned the principles which keep their busi- nesses solvent. Among these are C. C. and Albert Bundschu, Mel- vin and Carl Knoepker, Kenneth ‘Bostian, Renick Jones, a member of the City Council, Harry Sturges, Frank Livesay, and many, many others. “In fact,” said Miss Janie, de- spairingly, “if I tried to name them all I would be sure to miss some- one, so I simply won’t try. I am glad to have known them all and to have had the privilege of teach- ing them and their children.” ' And then Miss Janie told an anecdote which illustrates one of the realities of life which should lend encouragement ta the many upils who are not quite as quick mathematical matters as some of their brighter schoolmates. “In spite of the fact,’ she said, | ‘that I have seen many of my oys and girls go out and make marks for themselves, a pupil in | whose achievements I take espe- cial pride was a big, slow 2 | who had a very difficult time keeping up with his work. “For some reason this boy want-_ ed to study engineering, and as. I could see little hope of-his suc-| cess in that field, I tried to dis-| suade him and advised against his. making that his specialty. But he was determined and used to. come. to my home evenings and together we would wrestle with his difficulty in grasping the fund- amentals of mathematics. “Up to the time of his gradua- tion from the high school he never quite found himself, but he per- sisted, attending a-junior college and later a university, always with his ultimate goal before him. _ “And then one day into the of- fice of the principal of the high school came\a letter from the uni- versity where that slow boy was a student, saying that he had. be- come one of the most outstanding engineering students ever to study at that great state educational in- stitution. “When you see things like that happen,” Miss Janie said, with a satisfied air, “you can’t help feel- ing that the work of a teacher cepted the position. “Supt. Patrick left Independence during the period between that and the opening of the next fall term and G. M. Holliday took his place. I was assigned to teach in the old Ott School and when Supt. Holliday noticed that I had had some success with a few of what were termed ‘bad boys,’ he gathered, it seemed to me, all of the incorrigibles in the system and brought them to my room for me to teach.” And here Miss Janie paused to philosophize a little. “I have no- ticed one queer thing,” she said. “It is usually the so-called bad boys ere than the good ones -who ( how - mach they appreciate the work she tried to do with them. “Why, only recently I received a motto bearing a message of ‘Friendship’ from a boy who fail- ed repeatedly and who came to my home many evenings to try to make a passing grade. “Why,” Miss Janie chuckled, “I almost passed him just because he was willing to make the effort.” Miss Janie refused to venture ‘ When the high school moved to its new building, Miss Janie made the fourth move of her long teach- ing career, but still remained a member of the same faculty. In all of those years and up to the present time she says that she has been blessed with exceptienally good health. Her only illness was from diphtheria, and she had that during the Christmas vacation, therefore missing very few days of school. Mrs. Ruby Short McKim was a member of Miss Janie’s English class in the year before she took up her work as a mathematics in- structor..,,,,.. i Mayor Ro ex, T. Sermon learned the principles of mathematics which have served him so well in putting the city on a sound fi- nancial basis from Miss Janie. She also taught his son, Roger T., Jr., and says that both were fine: pu- pils. She even suggested that the younger Sermon might have shad- ed his dad just a little. Fleming Pendleton, president of | the Bank of Independence, learned to figure interest from Miss Janie, and he also serves as a member of the district school board. Two other members, or half of the, present Board of Education, Dr. | Floyd Yale and Mrs. Howard, Hinde, were once members of Miss. Chiles’ classes, ; Others of the present school fac- , ulty who- used to be her pupils | are Marshall Miller, principal of the Junior High School, Miss Nora Witthar, chemitry teacher, and Charles Huhn, coach of athletics at Chrisman. Intricately woven into the busi- ness fabric of this, the Queen City of the Old Trails, are many who ar has been well worth while. “Yes,” she said, “if I had the right of choice and could begin over again, I am quite sure that I should choose voluntarily the life mission into which originally I fell by chance.”—K, A. M. a I December 15, 1943. My, Ralph Cannon, Esquire Magazine 919 Nee Michigam Avec, Chieage, Illineis. Dear Ralphs I was interested in your Sports Pell, and there sre some things that I would like te say about it. First, I have never recemended a 12 feet geal fer high seheel players. This is always the way when you de recommend something for cellege players - there is always an erreneous impression that carries ever in seme ether field of sectivity. But fer ecellege players, mon of maturity, when they reach such heights as the tall player new pessesses, then I can see nothing sacred abeut the height ef a 10 feet basket. There is me reason in the werld why it should met be changed. I was rather interested im the AP article eut ef New Yerk last night in whieh Hemry Iba, the coach ef Oklahoma A. & M., with his 7 feet Beb Kurland, and Jee Lapehick, eoach of St. John's College, ' with his 6 feet mine inch Harry Beykeff, came out against the geal- tending type of defense. Sure, beth coaches used this style ef play because it is prefitable. But the goal-tending is only half of the stery; the geal-dumking is the ether half ef the stery, and that is whete the rule-makers have made an unconstitutional rule according te any law im the lend. It is diserimimatory and therefore could net held in a court of law ner should it held in a court of fair reasoning. The diserimination I speak of is discrimination in faver ef the offense. If the ball is om the rim ef the basket the offensive man may push it in, strike the ball, bat it in, or strike the rim when he dunks his arm about eight imehes threugh the rim with the ball, and the geal counts im all of these situations. But a defensive man guarding the goal may net tap the ball er reach ever the perpendicular plane ef the basket im knocking the ball away from the heep. Again, if the ball sheuld be en the edge ef the basket andthe defensive mam should kmeck it off er teueh the goal twe peints are scered fer the effensive side. De you net agree with me that that is diserimination for - im the one case, and against in the ether? m2 A higher basket that ceuld net be teushed by either player would be just for @ll concerned. Just because Dr. Naismith tacked the peach hamper em the rumming track of the gymnasium et Springfield Cellege, Springfield, Mass., and that running track happened te be 10 feet frem the fleer is the emly reasen why wer have a 10 feet basket at the presekt time. Why sheuld net the basket be raised with the inereasing height ef the players? And players in basketball are getting constantly taller all the time. We played Oklahoma A. & Me twe games last year with 7 feet Bob Kurland, and we wen beth games, se I am met one of these coaches who are erying because we can't beat mezzanime peeping basketball hurdlers, but rather I am thinking ef the game. I eann these big beys"mezzanine hurdlers" beeause they are tall emeugh to teuch the mezzanine floor. It made me laugh audibly te see what seme ef these coaches said in their objections te a 12 feet basket. One, that it would make a little man sheet further than the taller mm. A player sheeting fer a higher geal accommodates the muscles ef his eyes te height the same as & player accommedates his eyes te distance. A player standing 20 feet out en the court and sheeting for a 12 feet basket wevld arch the ball a little higher and further than he would fer a 10 feot basket. ‘he same parallel argumext is alwegs good when a player is standing 20 feet out on the fleor and sheoting fer a 10 feet basket he will areh the ball a little higher and further than if he were standing out em the fleer 15 feet from the basket. A player arching his shet for o 10 feet basket 15 feet out webld not afeh it as high as he would for a 12 feet basket at the same distance. Seme coaches have raised the objection that a shert man geing in fer a lay-up weuld be fereed to jump two feet higher, whieh would be a digadvantage te a small man. This shows ome thing, Ralph, that nee of these coaches have tried a 12 feet basket. There would be neo lay~ins on these shets beeause each player would be required te shoot at a 12 feet basket and mone of them could accomplish « lay-in on aceount of the height. The peerest place te shoot at a 12 feet basket weuld be directly under- meath the geal. That is emphatically the strong point ef the 12 feet basket - in that they may net dunk it im the basket nor bat it away. A hard drive teward the basket which preduees 80 per cent of all the feul@ by the defense in basketball are made fer this very ebvious reason «= because a player driving im fer the basket is feuled or draws — a pair of fouls and the official awards the offended player two free threwse If you could eut out 80 per cent ef the fouls and practically all ef the double shets caused frem players threwing these fouls, then you would have @ much cleaner, epen game where field goal shooting would be the deminant peint rather than fouk shooting which seems now te be the case. A field goal would count 3 points and a free throw would count 1, whieh ws Dr. Naismith's idea es te the evaluation of a field geal amd a free threw. The whistle blowing ef the officials weuld be cut Gown immeasurable beeause there would be fewer fouls om account ef the == fact that it would be te the advantage of a player te sheet at the basket frem a distance of 8, 10, er 12 feet rather than have the big beys camp under the basket and jab er dunk them in. The added height ef the basket would measurable clear up the congestion that always exists under the 10 feet basket. The big, rugged guard whe sets himself te bleek out the incoming man and the tall mezzanine hurdler whe camps near the basket woul@ ef necessity have te move back on aceount of the higher are ef dispersement of the bounding ball from a 12 feet basket. Therefere, it would elear up that cengested area, and it weuld give the sherter man a decided advantage because when a bail is arehed for the geal, if by striking the basket the are of dis- persement would eause a further rebemiding of the ball, the big man moves baek away from the basket. Then the small man, should the ball miss the basket and drep dewn te the fleer, could dart in and quickly steal the ball before the big mam could cover this added space that he new protects and reserves fer himself under this lewer basket. By foreing the defens~ ive man further back and away frem the basket it weuld naturally give the sherter and speedier mau more area te eperate in without melestation. I believe that you ean easily visualize this peint. It would alse strike a blew at the zene defense. Many ef these prepememts ef the 10 feot basket whe are eppenents of the 12 feet basket remind me of a young shortsighted farmer eas of Kansas City whe cemplained that his father was the mest shert-sighted business man that he had ever seen. He left him five hundged acres of the fimest farming land in Jackson Coumty that was werth a theusand @ellars m acre. But the son complained that the father did net leave him one darned thing te farm it with. That remind me of these basket~ ball ceaches the weuld much rather imherit a tall player after their anaual imtensive search for mezzanine hurdlers than they weuld actually ge te the trouble » install a 12 feet basket andtry the game out under these conditions. _ | believe that I can say witheut fear ef contradiction that not ten per cent of all the ceaches of the United States have sema 12 foot basket. Therefere, seme of these coaches whe have derived their life in- | eome from the game have never put anything inte it but have been constant- ly taking eut. They sit around and complain about their players geing eut on four personal fouls, and yet they de neo mere about impreving the game er cerrecting the difficulty /than this Jackson County farmer. ) We have twe 12 feet baskets in eut gymmasium, and have had then installed fer fifteen years. We use them fer the purpbse of teaching our players correct arching of the ball. And as fer the cost of raisinga ~., geal twe feet + that is a rare jeke. Mest goals are suspended from the ceiling and all yeu weuvld have to de is sherten the pipe twe feet. The bhll for basketballs each year double exceeds the cost of raising the basket te 12 feet, se this plea fer economy is rare. These coaches speak as if the cost of raising the baskets would come out ef their own peckets and Juss try te get it from them. (aaa othe Now, again, may I emphasize that I weuld net suggest the 12 feet basket fer high scheel players because many of the gymmasia in the East de have lew ceilings, but this is net true inthe West, and there is not a college gymmasium in Ameriea or a large auditorium in the big cities that helds any sizeable erewd but what could stad a 12 feet goal elevation witheut amy difficulty. And by asking a raise te 12 feet this even keeps the 7 foot 6 inch player sheeting fora goal aiid met dunking a goal. ‘This height basket weuld fer all time seal the fate of the gangling, inept players but for the geed, big, tall man - he would still be in the game and he could pass and sheet aleng with the rest of them. The premium on height would net amount te the great advantage that it dees at the present time under the 10 feet basket. There are seme conferences se umpregressive that they are still using the “herse-and-buggy" four by six backboard rather than the new stream=lined beard. Manbe seme of these fellews couldn't hit a stream- limed beard and they need that large area to step the ball from going out -@f beumds. Amd the Jeke of it is that the beard was never put up for a rebeund beard by Dr. Naismith, but rather it ws te keep the spectators away from the basket. They would reach ever the baleony and kick or knock the ball away from the basket, se they built a weeden barrier large eneugh te keep the crowd away, which preved te be the feur by six backbeard. Any- hew, the Big Tem and seme of the umpregressive conferences still need that backbeard te keep their players from threwing the ball eut ef bounds. Mueh of this baeckbeard is umfertile banking area and it ebstructs the view of mere than fifty per eent of the peeple whe sit behind it. Olsen say, “The worth ef the 12 fect basket has not been demonstrated in Gennection with the tall ‘goon' preblem, and sueh a change would have many disadvantages «= chiefly the expense ef changing the height ef baskets all ever the ceumtry at a terrific tetal cest." As if this large backbeard if not ebstructing the view ef many people in mamy ef the high seheels whe pay their geod momey te see the game and yet sit behind this large ebstruct= ing surface without anything being dome about it. Certainly the expendi-~- ture ef the peeple whe pay te see a game and fail te see it far surmounts the so-called terrifie tetal cost thet Mr, Olson speaks about eof rabsing the basket; aud yet we are net asking that they raise the basket for high seheel beyé but fer sellege mezzanine hurdlers. J de met call theso beys “seons". I think it is an unfair mismomer. Some of the finest athletes that I have seen have beem beys ever six feet six inches tall. “Mezzanine Hurdlers" seems te me a more polite appellation. Facetiously I might suggest that im yeur questiommaire yeu ask the public, the spertseasters and the sperts editers hew many 12 feet baskets they have ever seem. There are nome in the Smithsonian Institute, but we have twe here in Rebinsom Gymnasium. Then if you want te get a thousand per cent negative anser ask how many coaches have actually put up a 12 foet basket and played a game under these conditions. it is interesting te note that im your questionmaire 52.14 per cent ef the publie veted for a higher basket. Doubtless the spertseasters and -5@ the sperts editers were tinetured by the opinion of many ef the coaches whe doubtless had expressed their epinien em the 12 feet basket te the spertseasters and the sports editers. I ask hew etherwise weuld the spertseasters and the sperts editers knew, umless they were just guessing it weuldm"t be a geed thing, because I am sure they haven't seem any 12 feet baskets. Many Mark Cex has seem a pair. If he hasn't his guess en the baskets woulé be as good as the fact when he said the Eastern Intereolleg- iate playeeffs were played in Independemee Hall im Philadelphia in his article in Esquire. You mentioned several ef the ceaches whe were against the raising ef the 12 feet basket. Wouldn't it have beem fair te have mentioned more than Ward Dumbert as favoring the idea - say Hemry Iba, Bruce Drake, and a scere of others? The elevated basket will ceme as sure as death and taxes. There is ne way that these administraters can frame a rule that will net be dise crimimatery and I am geing to get a great chuckle eut ef watehing these beys thét oppese a 12 feot basket view these 7 feet boys like Kurland. In thébr confusion they would,'t know what te do, and they get licked. However, there is a way to beat a team with a 7 feet player but yeu have te spend mamy weeks in preparing fer just that one team and ene player. We will beat many teams with tall players amd w e have had very few tall centerse Se I am not kicking on my ows personal account, but 1 am endeaver- ing te impreve the game. And please remember that t here is neo 12 feet basket suggestion fer high seheel players, ~ just fer college and independ- ent teamse With all goed wishes, I am Sineorely yours, Director ef Physical Education FCA sAH Varsity Basketball Coach. P.S. My suggestion always has been if amd when such a rule sheuld be en= acted in elevating the basket that there should be a moraterium of three years in order te permit any player new im the game full play under the 10 feet basket. The enceming tall players would naturally play under the mew rule. Alse, the free throw is suggested from a disteuce of 20 feet em account ef the imereased height of ‘the basket making the trajectory easier for the thrower. FeC ede : “II low the gens. Rae P oe ESE NER NAG BRO OK E YEN IN 7 Ae NATIONAL £0: Tce A Lok EEA GUE TELEPHONE TRIANGLE 5-9092 215 - MONAAGU & - St. BROOKLYN 2, N.Y. May 11, 1944 Mr. Forrest C. Allen cansas University Lawrence, Kans. Dear Mr. Allen: Permit me to thank you for your telegram in response to ours concerning your ex-players who were in the draft list. This was helpful to our management in making choices of players. It is greatly appreciated and I hope you will call on me when I can do a favor for you. Here is hoping that things will move along smoothly for you this fall during these unsettled days. Will all best personal wishes, yours, W. oach Cawthon PWC/1t V a 4 { Ue April 17, 1944. Mr. Be i, Crone, ote, | Associated Fress Office, ‘ Kansas City Star Building, Kansas City, Missouri. ‘Dear B. Wes Confirming our conversation of Saturday, I am sending you my statement concerning my opinion of the new rules promulgeted by the basketball rules committees of the N.C.A.A. The so-called Goal Tending rule, or the rule Against the Defensive Player Touching the Ball on its Downward Flight: This rule previously forbade the defensive man from touching the ball while the ball was on the rim of the basket or while the ball was above the per- pendicular cylinder of the basket. This new rule substitutes the one just mentioned. I am going into a little detail with you for fear you might not have followed all of the angles of the new rule. The rule- framers had in mind that if this defensive player touched the ball while the ball was in its downrard flight this would correct all the trouble, but it will not because we have rum tests on this rule. At a clinic meeting at Cedar Repids, Iowa, the other day I had the boys shoot for the basket and did not tell them what I had in mind. A group of us studied the ball when it started on its downward flight. We found that a tall player standing in front of the basket and moving to either side could intercept most of the balls before they started on the dowmward flight because the impetus was given to the ball to carry to the basket, and many shots that would carry to or over the 7 basket were still going up in their flight from the floor. Only the ball with a very high arch would begin its descent before it got above the plane of the basket, Therefore, my comment, I think, is well taken. The New injury Rule, permitting the Official to call Time Out for Injury for Bither Side: This rule has been tried before and found wanting. Phe Unlimited Substitution Rule: This has always bem a good rule, but the basketball rules committee was afraid to put it in even after the football rules committee had done so. My criticism of the rules committees being susceptible to pressure groups is shown by their slow action in this rule. The fact that football with more than twice the number of people participating sould have adopted it for @il the time ~-- that Therefore, I aa that they want answered. By permitting unlimited eny suggestion for higher 3 college people had no right the initiative now and angle ey have asked, but I am they are moving in their questions, | fellow to commmicate with his fellows have ‘tion and to not discriminate against According to their commmication I am I have contended for this rule for a because the crowd was always "on" the coach because they sideline. game of basketball provide, as nearly as equality of opportimity for all players? i a 4 ; i much much sooner. thout t The master-minding of conches is done away with by hing | the substitution and permi this imsediately upon going on the floor removed the criticism of coaching "Here are a fow of the questions that should be answered: Is it desirable that the possible, The Personal Fouls Rule, permitting an increase from four to five, is a necessity because the rules committee by the elimination of the center jump had made it such o wild game that no good official from the sideline. this rules can officiate the geme properly. Ths et ltpaydas + i ta le 4e 5e Ts Be wo des Dees the present 10-feot basket give the extra tall boy an abnormal advantage over his opponents of reasonable and average height? Is there anything sacred about the 10-foot basket now in use? If so, how was it decided that ten feet is the proper height? Would those who oppese a higher basket also oppose a lower basket? If sc, would their objection be that it would give the tall players too much advantage? (It should be observed that the 10-foot basket proe vides more advantage to the 4all player now than a basket nine feet, six inches high would have provided twenty-five years ago). If it is desirable to neutralise the advantage to the tall player, is there any way to do it except to raise the basket to a height that will net permit interference with opponents’ bona fide shots and will not permit tall players to ‘jump up and drop it in' without any chance of interference by shorter opponents? Will it remove the abnormal advantage to the tall player if tho baskets ars raised so that every goal scored will have to be the result of a *shot' whereby the ‘shooter’ must throw the ball at the basket and not _ merely ‘lay it int? Will the raising of the baskets take away from the game some of the spectacular plays now enjoyed by players and spectators? Does the rules committee have in mind further changes that will curb the offensive activities of the long, tall boys in order to compensate for curtailment of pessible defensive demonstrations? _ After the war there will be thousands of high school gymasiums and athletic _ plents built. The old style loweceiling basketball court will be entirely passe within a few years. Provisions for greater seating space will be nec- essary end if there are to be other requirements for more floor space, _ higher basketball goals, or any other facilities, then we should begin our plans to get ready for them and the basketball rules comnittee should act in & positive, educational way to solve the pending problems that will confront us, inetond of resorting to negative performances of the new ‘whittling’ variety, * Last week on April 12 "Duteh” Lonborg, one of my old players and captain of my University of Kansas basketball team in 1920, came out with the statement from Chicago that he didn't think the officials would have such a terrible time and thought the rules were pretty good. While on the other hand, Nick Kearns, veteran mid-western official from Chicago, denounced the rules the day before stating that the changes are placing too heavy @ burden on the official. "Dutch" stated, "It is okay. It will ‘deeempheasiaze offenses built around the tall boy and at the same time forces coaches to disoard defenses which employ goalies. No eoach will use a set up which might cost him five or six baskets in a single game." | ‘on its that is not elear to you, please feel If there is a 8 3 | i 8 i 8 é J : pirestor of Physieal Edusation, Varsity Basketball Coach. eee ee . he" OTS Tc abaahy ee Mt FG fog frenages ee ee ge are 4 ws ‘ . * feat GOAL TENDING ane DEFENSIVE PLAYER FORBIDDEN TO TOUCH BALL ON DOWNWARD FLIGHT The National Basketball Rules Comittee at their last mecting proved itself te be a “model” rules committee - see Webster - “a model is a gmall imitation of the real thing", ‘The rules bedy temporized. They did not meet issues squarely. : the rules committee did nothing about the extremely td] player om the offenses But they humered a pressure group whieh protested against the giant goal tender on defense. Symptomatieel ly they dabbled awkwardly in the same diyeetion of their mistakes the previous year. Why diserimingte against the defense wile permitting full freedom te the offense as the sane rule concerns im principle the extremely tall player under both baskets. The newly exacted goal tending rule will be only about ten per eent efficient. I prediet that Hank Iba and other crafty coaches with goal tending giants will still plaee their goal tenders in front and under the defensive baskets | : Had the rules committee members done any researeh previdus to their hasty action and studied the flight of the ball toward the basket they would have diseovered that an extremely tall player ean still steal most shots before the ball gets to the basket, The ball does not begin its dowward are generally umtil it gets above the basket. 3 Mest players shoot “skimers" = low shets + just clearing the rime The ball leaves the players hands at a height of less than six feet and the basket ie ten feet high, henee tall defensive players will get the ball while it is still going ups Offensive shooters cannot readily learn @ new areh shot just for ‘the ‘benefit ofthe hyper=tall goal tender without seriously . affeeting their shooting aecuraeys . 4 st lac te elite ite itea ee bao classe 3 Ae URE SER eI t= srry y a2e Few officials will bether t henselves regarding the questionable are of the ball when they are paid to wateh the action of the players for fouls and violations on the floors Certainly this distraction of the officials’ eyes amy from the playing floor cannot improve the ealibre of this already | diffieult game to officiate. Ighallenge the NCAA basketball rules committee or the National Coaches Aagootation to show one substantial research project accomplished in the past ten yoarss : Freeze the rules for a threeeyear peried with the intention of formulating a researeh committee for intelligent rules study and researches Instead of the NCAA eonfiseating the major portion ef the basketball gate receipts for a “hobby pet", insist that a Basketball Foundation be formed with research by competent full-time meni te study the vital needs of the THE NEW INJURY RULE PERMITTING THE OFFICIAL TO CALL TIME OUT FOR INJURY FOR EITHER SIDE the new injury rule is an old rule in a new garbe there ws a time when wily and unprimeipled coaches taught their pleyers to fake sadurtee when the opponents had the ball in a favorable seoring position, The rule had to be ehanged to the one just atolished. Sinee officials eamot rule on. intent, doubtless this new rule will plague the officials and rule makers before many monthse | UNLIMITED SUBSTITUTION RULE Again the basketball rules committee has been fast asleep on the free substitution rules Football has had it in operation for several years using double the number of players with splendid success, This long vires rule will take the curse off of the so~salled oashin: from the benehs With players substituting freely the master minding of the coach is reduced to a minimum. PERSONAL FOULS 10 FIVE As & ease in point of treating symptoms instead of intelligently — studying the eauses, I wish to cite the elimination of the eenter Jump rule as an examples These rule committee members whe adveeated t he eenter jum elimination claimed that the rule would drive the exceptionally tall player out of the grate All the rule makers did was to add more out of bound plays to the already too many and in addition they ereated this fire wagon, harun- searum type of game that has placed a heavier burden on the poor officials. As now played the gamo leaves the players, officials and s peetators fatigued and dizsy after ferty minutes of kaleideseopie, shuttle-heekeyized basketball jargone And the rules body now have with them a tel ler fellow than they had ever dreamed, together with a game that cannot be well officiated, Maybe six or eight personal fould allowed would be the just and proper limit eon- sidering the conditions of the Eom» : Certainly the elimina tion of the eenter jump was net the answer for the equalization of this ger guantuan player who poegesses sueh am unequal ade vantage under a lew basket, Before the NCAA Basketball Rules Committee treats symptems again without researeh or study syppose we freeze the rules before more blunders are mies | ss eases detains 6 cites teed i ates ny rats grow te about the sise of small degs. These growth hormones without doubt will be in great demand, Some basketball coaches doubtless will feed then to their altitudinous behemoths with the idea of developing 9 flodk of basketball dunkers, Instead, I would feed the growth hormones to the ten foot basket with the idea of increasing the height a couple of fect. # PS, eee Ba Se GOAL THIDING or DRPENSIVE PLAYER FORBIDIBN TO TOUCH BALL. ON DOWUNARD FLIGHT Tho National Basketball Rules Committee at their last meeting proved iteelf te be a “model” rules committee ~ sce Webster - “a model isa omall imitation of the real thing". The rules body temperized. ‘They did net meet issue squarely. | the rules eaanittee did nothing a»ewt the extremely td] player on the offense, But they hunored @ pressure croup whieh protested against the giant goal tender on defense, Symptomatiesl ly they datbled awkvardly in the cane divestion of thely mistakes the previews years Why discriminate Against the defense wile permitting full freedom te the offense as the sane rule concerns in principle the extremely tall player under both baskets, The newly exaeted geal tending rule will be only about ten per cent efficient, 1 predict that Hank Iba and other orafty eonehes with goal tending giants will still pleee their goal tenders in front and under the defensive basket. Had the rules ecmzittee members done any researeh previous to their hasty setion and studied the flight of the ball toward the basket they would have ‘iseovered that an extremely tall player oan still steal most shots before the ball gets te the baskets The bald duey met begin Ste Commend are generally umtil it gete above the basket. 4 leet players shoot “siimore” = low shots = just clearing the rine The ball leaves the players hands at a height of less than six feet and the basket is ten foot high, hones tall defensive players will got the ball while it Ae still going ups Offensive shooters eamnct readily learn a new areh ahot just for the benefit of the hyperstall geal tender without seriously ale Pew officials will bother thenselves regarding the questionable are of the ball when they are paid to wath the action of the players for fouls and violations on the floors Cortainly this distraction of the officials’ ot Say FE A ang nee animes tageten to enttane of Ute chrmay diffioult game to officiate. oe I gliailenge the NOAA basketball rules sommittes or the Hational % Cenahion Assostation $e chow ene eubetunhial research prejert scoemplished in the past ten yearts — Freeze the rules for a threo«yoar poried with the intention of. formulating a research committee for intelligent rules study and researche Instead of the NCAA eonfiseating the major portion of the basketball gate reesipts for a “hobby pot", insist that a Basketball Foundation be formed — with research by competent full~tine mente study the vital needs of the ganee THE NEW INJURY RULE PERMITTING THE OFFICIAL TO CALL TIME oUT FOR INJURY FOR EITHER SIDE The new injury rule ie an old rule ina now garbs There wag @ | ih tle Uy enn aiainetaned eiatinn: Wendeh: tw vain 00 itn 'tanietee when the opponents had the ball in a favorable seoring position, The rule ad to be changed to the one just aiolisheds Sinee officials eamet rule on UNLIMITED SUBSTITUTION RULE goin tn Westen vides Sunk teen tab Youn Saat ahouy wa the free substitution rules Football as had it im operation for several yeurs wwing double the nusber of players with splendid sussesss This long overdue rule will take the curse off of the go-ealled sosshin: from the benehs | ee een toe Se Seen to @ minimum. PERSONAL FOULS 10 PIVE Ag @ ence in point of treating symptoms instead of intelligently studying the causes, I wish te cite the elimination of the center Jump rule as an examples These rule eoumittes menbers who adveeatedt he sexter jump “elimination elained thet the rule would drivete exeptically tl} player out of tho games All the rule mukers did ms to add more out of bound plays to the alvea’y too many and in addition they ereated this fire wagon, harun= searun type of game that has plaeed a heavier burden on the peor officials. _ Ag now played the game leaves the players, officials and s peetators fatigued am! dissy after forty minutes of kaleidessepie, shuttle-hockeyized bagketball gargone | And the rules body now have with them a taller fellow than they had over dreamed, together with a game that cannot be well officiated. Maybe gix or eight perscmal fould allowed would be the just and proper limit eon- sidering the eonditdons of the game 3 , Cortainly the elimimtion of the eenter jump was not the answer for | the equalisation of this garguantuan player vho powgesses gush an unoqual ade vantage under a lew basket. Defore the NCAA Basketball Rules Comittee treats syuptems again witheut researeh or study eyppese we freeze the rules before more bluniers are mm (@e | Selenee hae now diseovered a growth hormone whieh makes ordinary rate grow to about the size of small degee These growth hermones without doubt will be in great demnd, Some bagletball coaches doubtless will feed then to their eltitudinous behemoths with the idea ef developing » flodk of basketball dunlerss Instead, I would feed the growth hormones to the tem foot basket with the idea of inereasing the height a couple of feats é eevee it hen aaa PO Se eam ee i ee en Pee Pee en ee Nee en ee ee ee ag ee ee a ae Te een