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Texas High School Coaches
Association Textbook $4.00
Volume VI

Lectures given at Texas Coaching School,
August 7-11, 1944
Jeff Cravath, University of Southern Cali-

fornia—The T Formation :

Bobbie Dodd, Georgia Tech—The Single |

» Wing-Back Formation
Del Morgan, Texas Tech—tine Play

Blair Cherry, University of Texas—Backfield -
Play -

Jewell Wallace, High School, San Angelo,
Texas—Organization and Handling of
‘High School Football Problems

Stanley Thomas, Sunset High School, Dallas,
Texas—Organization and Handling of
High School Basketball

Texas High School Coaches
Association Textbook, $5.00

With @ supplement of the lectures given
at the Tulsa Coaching School, Tulsa, Oklae
homa, August 1-4, 1944
Maurice (Skip) Palrang, Boys Town, Nebras-

ka—T Formation
Homer Norton, Texas A. & M.—Double and

Triple Wing
J. O. (Buddy) Brothers, University of Tulsa—

The Kicking Game
W. S. (Mike) Milligan, University of Tulsa—

Line Play
Henry Frnka, University of Tulsa—Tulsa’s

Offense
Dr. Eugene Lambert, University of Arkansas—

Basketball

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The coach is spending his time on the
defensive men, primarily instilling in them
good defensive teamwork and pointing out
constantly the weakness and the strength
of the defensive play as it progresses from
scrimmage to scrimmage.

The fourth stage five on five (Diagram
4). Here we have the defensive situation
as it should be with five offensive men met
by five defensive opponents. These game

drills follow all former regulations, and

should always follow, and never precede
those of the first, second and third stages
of defensive drill. The five-man defensive
teams should have no trouble in stopping

their five-man offense in these practice

drills. Each of the defensive men specifies

| a certain opponent for whose movements

he will be personally responsible during
these regular game situations. These de-

| fensive men are taught to slide and trade

and switch, so there will be no excuse for
permitting an offensive opponent to score
because he shook his opponent loose.

The same ratio that has been used in
five trials at the basket is used in this
drill. The defense should many times shut
the offensive team out without a basket be-
cause three defensive men played five.
heretofore, and it should be an easy mat-
ter now to hook up the five defensive men
into a well-knit organization that should
many times turn the offensive back with-
out a single goal in five trials.

In Diagram 5 the cut-back of the de-_
fensive forwards is emphasized. The mo-
ment that the ball passes a defensive for-
ward, this player should angle back into
the area into which the ball was passed
and make a one-two pass near impossible.
You will note that the offensive guard is
handling the ball, has just passed it to his
own right forward, and has cut into the
basket for a pass. The cut-back of the
defensive forward has thwarted this and
the other defensive men have shifted ac-
cordingly. This is concerted and intelligent
defensive headwork and footwork.

The Practical Uses of

the Inside Screen
(Continued from page 17)

there is doubt as to who committed the
foul, where both men were in motion, the
greater responsibility rests on the screenor.
A running screen which is a part of the
continuity of movement of the offense
must be coached to avoid contact because
of the danger of fouls and the subsequent
danger of the team being thrown off stride.
A fast-moving weave will have more con-
tact than one with a more desirable and
moderate tempo. ‘The running screen
might be described as a mental block in
that the defensive player chooses to avoid
the path of the screenor and thereby avoid
the danger of being blocked away from
his opponents. The main use of the run-
ning screen has been partly explained in
this paragraph. Its general aim is to es-
tablish a movement of players whith im-
proves passing and ball control, thereby
increasing the effectiveness of the offense.
While the defense is engaged in shifting,
scissoring, or avoiding the screen, it is in.
that specific situation that the offense gains
a momentary advantage. This situation
opens up passing lanes and cutting lanes

| that were not present before. In order to

take full advantage of this fleeting oppor-
tunity, it is imperative that the players be
well schooled in the basic fundamental of
ball-handling and passing. Players must
be taught expert use of peripheral vision
because of the necessity of seeing and rec-
ognizing the openings created by the ever-

changing positions on defense. These

openings occur during the execution of the |
screen and not afterward, hence the im-
portance of doing two or three things sim-
ultaneously. The running-screen game
may be a “bull-in-the-China-shop party”
or it may be a beautiful exhibition of
scientific basketball.

One of the best methods of teaching the
running screen is to set up the exact game ~
condition in a five-versus-five drill. Things
to be stressed in this drill would be finding _
the right cadence and tempo for the move-
ment, as well as developing the poise and
skills necessary to make the most of the
screen opportunities. The illustration at
the beginning of this article and Diagram
9 show situations in the execution of the
running screen.

Development and Strategy of

Team

side. The diagrams show how the defense
plays their men as the ball moves around

In Diagram 3, the ball is held by X2.
05, 04 and O2 play their men quite close.
Ol plays his man loose and 03 floats well

Defense in Basketball

(Continued from page 24)

back toward the keyhole. Thus 03 zones
the keyhole and is ready to stop any of-
fensive man who cuts clear into this area.
This floater on the weak side is our key
man in stopping a particularly dangerous
pivot player.

THE ATHLETIC JOURNAL