Twenty Years of Gains and Changes in basketball

Wheat a galaxy of events in the history of basketball is this
year, 1941 AeD’ The Golden Anniversary of Basketballs The Silver
Anniversary of the Joint Basketball Rules Committees ‘Two decades of
phenominal progress in basketball.

What has inspired the phenomenal growth and progress of this
great game? How have the offense and the defense changed? Why the great
popularity of this sport? These are a few questions for which we find
the answerse

From the inventor’s peach basket to the present iron rimy from
& soccer football to a fullesized regulation basketballs from the large
rectangular 6* x 4" backboards, that were first made of chicken wire, then
glass, then wood, to the present streamlined faneshmaped pressed-steel backe
boards, the game of basketball has steadily forged ahead to become one of the
most popular amateur sports. The original purpose of the large backboards
was to keep spectators and partisans of the game from kicking or batting the ball
away from the basket. later the players learned to bank the ball from these
large boarda. The Reserach Committee of the Rules Body, by cutting away the
dead wood, retained only the fertile area of the board. ‘The radical reduction
in size of the backboard has aided spectator visibility, back of the basket,
more than fifty pereent.

From the amall low-ceilinged gymasiuns to the massive field houses
of todays from audiences of a few hundreds to crowls of from 12,000 to

20,0003 from nine, then seven to five players on a side unfolds the unprecendented

growth of the fiftysyear-old indoor game of basketball.
Everyone knows that the distinguished Dr. James Naismith, former Proe
fessor of Physical Education at the University of Kansas, while a student at

 

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