Tanuary 24, 1956

Mr. Le Ee Menze, Basketball Coach
Iowa State College
Ames, Lowa

Dear Louie:

I want to worly to your letter of Jenuary 14th in regard to
the Bask-O-Lite goals.

I recall. very well the conference meeting at which time it
seemed we were the only ones not interested in this goal.
=< did not heve the time to experiment with the goal to give
it my consideration and felt as you did that if the rest of
the conference wanted the goal, Nebraska would put it in.

We installed these goale end geve them « thorough trial |
and did not find them satisfactory. The non-conference teams
that we plsyed were very much oppesed to our use of this goal
and this made it rather ineonvenient and unpleasant to change
the goal every time thet we had a new team coming to the Col-
iseum., Our boys did not like the goal, The tall boys did
not like it for the reasons we have discussed and the small
boys did not ijike it as they felt as if they were shooting
ro dg gualame well as the other common ressons for disiiking
he goal.

They also hed considersbie amount of mechanical trouble, In
facet, two sete were installed before the switches were set
properly and functioned as they should. The inconvenience
hinging eround these baskets certainly has proven to us that
— are not worth the amount of money necessary to install
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The main reason for using this goal ie to flash the light

when a basket is made for the information and guidance of

the spectators behind the basket. ‘“e have found a very sate
isafactory substitute in the way of lights to be controled
from the secorer's bench similar to what George Sdwards was _
dcing at “issouri, These were tried in cur game with Kansas
State and were very satisfactory. In other words, everything
considered, Louie, we do not want to use the Bask-0-Lite goal
_—" prefer the ol14 goal for our game at Ames next Seturday
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