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Goal-Hi, New Game Developed by
Noted Basketball Authority _

 

Rove of a new and inspiring

game that is reported to be rap-
idly finding national favor, is news in-
eed. We approached the man respon-
sible for originating and developing
Goal-Hi, Dr. Forrest C. Allen, better
known wherever basketball is played
or discussed as “Phog” Allen, and
asked him to describe his new game
for our readers. Dr. Allen, Director
of Physical Education and Varsity Bas-
ketball Coach of the University of Kan-
sas, needs little introduction. He has
been associated with basketball for
thirty-seven years and enjoys the dis- -
tinction of having the longest period
of service of any collegiate coach and
of producing championship teams in

twenty-one of his twenty-seven years of
coaching. Dr. Allen’s response to our
inquiry follows.

 

ing at the National Convention of the
- American Association for Physical
Education, Health and Recreation, say
that basketball possessed all of the quali-
ties necessary for the educable child. As
parents and as educators we desire physi-
cal fitness, emotional stability, and mental
poise as chief characteristics for our
youngsters. To observe the young basket-
ball player dribbling and weaving his way
through a broken field and then suddenly
swerving to the side, jumping high into the
air and gracefully laying a shot into the
basket, is to witness poetry in motion. It
is that type of motor flow that the Greeks
wrote about centuries ago.
. Running, jumping, leaping, vaulting,
and climbing are the fundamental activi-

I ONCE heard eight educators, speak-

 

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Dr. Forrest C. “Phog’ Allen

ties of man. The basketball player shoot-
ing the ball into the basket is improving

 

motor skills and developing co-ordination,
rhythm, and confidence. By shooting at a
goal above the head, the player is elevat-
ing his ribs and thorax, and thus develop-
ing the entire upper thoracic area—an ex-
tremely important exercise which is much
neglected in our age of sedentary existence.
Every basketball coach knows that to play
basketball is to exercise the leg and ab-
dominal muscles and, in fact, every part of
the body.

Basketball is rated as perhaps the most
popular sport in America today. When
our Government reports that more than
eighty million people of all ages are annu-
ally paying admissions to see the game of
basketball, there can be no question of its
popularity. Unfortunately, that group of
eighty million people consists of spectators
who are content to sit on the sidelines and
watch two teams of only five players each
play the game.

Realizing the fact that basketball as we
now play it is limited to the short winter
season, and desiring to see these eighty
million spectators step across the sidelines
and become players, I have developed
Goal-Hi, a game that will undoubtedly
find favor as a year-round indoor and out-

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