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must put “teeth" in it. Other proposed changes such as five personal fouls,
raising the basket, feee subsitttions, etc could very easily be tried out
in a conference, the results of which would be invaluable.

The thing that has irked me, and if I'm wrong please set me right,
is that the rules committee is dealing with high-schools as well as colleges.
With this in mind, when questionaires are sent out by this body, they embrase
a lot more high-schools than colleges, and we fail to get the problems that
confront us across. We are out-voted. Is this right?

Well I'm going back to the National Coaches meeting in N. Y.
and go to bat against goal-tending, and then turn over my questionaires over
to Jimmie St Clair and hope that it get across. Whether or not the cards are
stacked against me or not, I do kmow that 92% of the coaches all over the United
States say something should be done to curb this practice. If the Rules Committed
fail to recognize this college problem, them I'm in favor of pulling away from
them and the N. C, A. A. at the same time and get a group of men that will see
to it that college basketball is fumigated to rid her of lice and blood suckers.

  
    

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Bruce Drake
Coach of Basketball

P., S. Give my regards to Mrs. Allen, and excuse mistakes please. I have hagd
a hard enough time pressing the right keys, but like a lot of officials make a

lot of mistakes. I'm leaving for N. Y. tomorrow and will be at hotel Belveders
March 20 thru March 27.