Mre Claassen Page 2 Dec. 16, 1940

Therefore, if you paint a glass bank then you spoil the affect that is hoped
for; namely, of allowing the spectators to see through them from the rears

The manufacturers make this pressed-steel backboard for

$56.00 & pairs The old backboard, 6" x 4* on the steel tank, cost $100.00 a
pair. It was very difficult to make a large steel surface, 6* x 41, without |
having it warp, but this bank is much cheaper, presents much more ‘visibility
both from undernesth and the sides than the old board, and the players, after .
Ss at it for a little while, declare it = as easy to hit as a larger

In fact, there are many coaches who say that if a player, shooting for a
saan cannot come close to making a basket on the new board then you do not
have much of.a basketball player on the floore

The new boards, you will welhen, have @ cutein arch which |
permits spectators to sit fifteen feet back underneath the board and still
see the ball go through the basket, This is a great improvement to buildings
which have many seats on the floor back and: underneath the baskets

: I would say that the players adjust: themselves quickly to
the new board, and there should be no great handicap through using the ‘two types
of boards interchangeably.

Both the new board and the old 6! x 4° ave still legale The
Rules Committee did not make a rule requiring the new board because of the fact
that many school systems in big cities do not have a sufficient budget to change
@ll the banks at once, It is for that reason the Committee has made both boards
legal, but I feel pretty certain that in time the new board, being much more
efficient,: will replace the big, old, cumbersome board that was placed on a ruming
track to keep the spectators from kmocking or batting the ball away from the
basket. That was the original intention of the people who put the first boards
back there, and =“ the players got to tankings

| I trust that this gives - nade intonation from which to
write a yarns

| scinseals yours,

evokes of Physical Education and Reoreati on !
Varsity Basketball Coach —

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