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player, overt an retnn Fone throws, made both free throws because he
had developed this to the point that he could make more points on the free
throw route than he sould on the field goal route. ne EE ES seas SiGe:
(5) There were fewer of the tall boys in the early days” se the
junior high school coach did not have as many gymmasia to play in as he _

coach discovered this skyscraper oozing ethearally down the hall and he

nabhed him, not because he ‘was a basketball player, but because all he _
would have to do is stand near the basket, catch the ball, and lazily and
awkwardly spin the ball into the basket sbove the shorter end weaker high

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(7) Here is the set up. The Nationel ieaipiahdiek of Basketball Connties
dint ta wiaieiacs: and i might say that about 5 per eext of the mebers
actually work and are concerned with rules. The rest of them only ree
arrange their prejudices and howl over some rule that they think interferes
with them, Sut there are a few intelligent fellows in the Goaches Assoc-
iation who really want to do something about the rules. The other is a
tipplers’ convention, but: it is mot as bad as ‘the. football soaches conven-
tion.

The ‘Basketball Rules RE rl is comprised, as you know, of the college
and university coaches, the high sahool federation, the Y.M.C.A.'s, and
the Canadiation Association of Coaches and Y.M.CeA.'s. ‘The joint committee
gets out a questiomaire and Mr. Porter, the secretary of the High School
Federation, is a very. intelligent. and efficient fellow. The rules committee
hes a questionnaire committee. These ques tiaumas ree are sent to the high
By and large ‘most members soma from the High Sohool Federation. After these
questionnaires are returned the clearing house handles them, and these are
the things discussed by the rules body. The Coaches Association has the
right to. male its recommendation, but the rules body does not guarantee that
any of the recommendations will be followed. Generally some of them are.
But the rules body is purely'e political set-up. Major Griffith and L. W.
St. John are the boys behind the scenes, with L. W. St. Join the prime |
mover. Harold Olson iz their paid stooge. He is assistant to St. John
as athletic direotor at Ohio State. J. We St. Clair, of Southern Methodist
University, was for many years on the nominating committee of the rules
committee. He naturally ihomitated the man that Olson and St. John dictated
and for his reward in doing this he is now chairman of the rules committee.
George Edwards, a fine fellow, is a part of the machine. When the word
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arrive at. The year before the center jwsp was eliminated, Olson, St. John
and all the rules body were definitely against eliminating the center jump.
Then Olson and St. John made a trip to the Pacific Coast. They made srrange-
nents for Ohie State to play football and basketball out on the coast fora
number of games with the University of Southern California and other coast
teams. The next year, after these gentlowm returned from the Pasific Const,