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might get into some home game, &lthough they might not be valuable enough to be
taken on @ trip. Therefore this rule is actually discouraging the number of
students who indulge in physical exercise rather than encouraging them to do soe

Further than this, the BigeSix this year eut the allowable number of games
from 20 to 18, while the BigeTon, the larger organization that the Big-Six was
patterned after, has for years permitted their schools te compete in 20 games. Again,
instead of allowing greater athletic participation, they are curtailing ite

Basketball does not incur a deficit. On the other hand a tidy
net profit above equipment and coaching expenses is assured, Consequently, the
same economies that might be practiced in a sport showing a deficit would not
necessarily be imperative heres

Summing up 11 the legislation that has happened in the last year, it
seems as if there is discouragement in physical participation and also a definite
danger to the health in the legislation nade in regard to basketball numbers and
participation,

At the present time I find myself absolutely umable to pick the first ten
men that will make the trip to Norman, Influenza riddled our squad on the castern
trip and we have at the present time three or four men definitely weakened from the
effects of fue Therefore, it is necessary to take a larger squad on account of this
illness than the rules permit, and with the begimning of the season and an inexe
perienced squad I find tht this rule definitely works a handicaps, Of course, we -
will follow the rules, although I think they were discriminatory and not thought
out fully, especially when we consider the health and welfare of our boyse