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say straightforwardly and conscientiously to you that I have steadfastly
conta ‘fac She Hae’ tvarentix ‘of of basketball, regardless of whether that
rule helped me or not. I have felt that I knew enough basketball funda-
mentals that I could teach my boys to play the game so that any rule that
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_ I eite the dribble. rule. In the second week of April, 1928, Knute Roolme
and I were speaking before the Wational fducation Association at Des Moines,
— at the Drake ficldhouse. Knute spoke on The Pedagogy ef Football and

I spoke onthe Pédagogy of Basketball. Two days prior to this meeting at
the fieldhouss, the Basketball Rules Committee hed abolished the dribble,
putting in the one bounce rule...In my speech on The Pedagogy of Basketball
I assailed.the National Baskethall Rules Committee as autocratic and high-
handed because they had not checked with any of the coaches to determine
their opinion, but because Dr. Walter Meanwell felt that the one bounce
rule. Si One, ee Nasa. Se eh AE, Se ee
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Ak controversial. storm broke over. the country with most of the coaches.
agreeing with.me. .1.received .160. telegrams from various coaches, sompli-
menting me upon my attacking the Rules Conmittee. I called for a meeting
of all the coaches eat the Drake Relays.in the next two weeks. We met and
set up a temporary committee and set a date for Chicago in June. At that
time I was elected president. We perfected an organization and called
upon the Rules Committee.to rescind the action, which they did. Out of
that turmoil was born the National Association of Basketball Coaches of
the United States. Many of Wa contins She Mae Seah, Sere ey, gem
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(2) 1 disoussed the 12 foot rule in 1932, but first publicly proposed
it in an article in 1954. “In 1935 the Kansas Aggies end Kansas played at
Lawrence with 12 foot baskets, and Kansas State won the ball game. In
spite of this defeat, I consistently advocated the 12 foot basket. 2
proposed, Harold, that a field goal coimt 3 points and a free throw count
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would be that it would reduce 60 to 75 per cent of the fouls and keep
more players in the zamtee It would free the congestion aroumd the basket
and it would give the short man an opportunity to recapture a shot that
fell short of the 12 foct basket before it wont out of bounds. 1% wuld
definitely give the small, fast man ae great advantage. And too, a 12 foot
basket adds a. lot of visual pleasure to a high arehing shot that splits
the net, which is a decided advantage over the short tip-in, jamming and
‘batting the ball around the basket as obtains with the 10 foot basket.
The 12 foot basket will also move the guards further away from the basket
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(3) x becktines Wk Meketielt, Accents, to. i 22 neee, tense wees the
fact that the drive-in and the lay-up would be taken away, and most every
player likes that; and the second reason is that I believe nobody would
gut SS Ae ees Pee ‘That is how strong they are an research. And