; jes Further, it stresses the additional importance of game fundamentals and it also provides an itemized history of the contest which is intensely interesting to the players in the upper brackets, It stimulates those in tho lower brackets to better their fundamentals, And too, it makes it possible for a coach to select his men on a more accurate basise His judgment is reinforced by the itemized history of the contest. The speaker is indebted to Dr. EB, R. Elbol and Dre V. We Lapp, of the Department of Physical Education, for thoir aid in working out the rating of the basketball playerse To Dre Elbcl for his invaluable assistance in an a dvisory capacity in weighing the offensive and defensive cloments and in the careful seloction of the recorders, To Dr. Lapp for his painstaking work in compiling the statistics and prosenting the results in readable forme Dre Lapp initiated the thought of writing to each player on tho varsity squad, asking them to evaluate coach of their teammates according to their individual playing efficiencye It is through Dr. Lapp's untiring devotion and indefatigable patience that this rescarch is possiblce