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
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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
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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.

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