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is like watching a table tennis matéh. The ball is always going back and forth

with no stops. It puts a severe strain on the youngsters."

Lon Jourdet, Varsity Basketball Coach at the University of Pennsylvania, believes

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that basketball is taking too great “ "Basketball rule makers mst return the

center jump to the game before secondary school authorities legislate against

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it was a few years back when the center tep-off was the vogue."

George Koegan, Varsity Basketball Coach of Notre Dame, has been a bitter critic of

the elimination of the center jum. He says, “The theory that even a groat

center could dominate the game was never anything but nonsense."

Henry "Hank" Iba, the brilliant young mentor of Oklahoma A. and M. College at

‘Stillwater, Oklahoma; Dave McMillan, Coach of the Minnesota Gophers; and a host

of other outstanding coaches of the nation have consistently plead for the return

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