Director of Health and Physical Education
University of Buffele
Buffale, New York

Dear Dre Hoanoe

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Basketball" were delivered to me last spring by Mre Floyd As Rowe, Chairmen
of the National Basketball Rules Committee, Cleveland, Ohiog together with
—— issue of the "Journal of School Health."

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University, pleyed on my Varsity team back in 1919-20, later he was my assistant
coach efter which he went to Stanford University as Director of Basketballs

Persomally, I have very definitely opposed the elimination of the center
juap, but as a member of the Rules Body I have always believed in the denocratie
way of doing things, that of registering a protest, but if you are out=voted to
go along in good faith with the majority. I believe it would be a very difficult
thing to restore the center jump in basketball, Several years have passed now
with the elimination of the jump and it would of necessity require a
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the pause that it took for the official to put the ball in play) again gave the
spectators a mental breathing spell as well as the somewhat exhausted pleyerse I
thought it was-a good thing for the game to have this leteup,from all angles con-

. ' I view the game as a shuttle~game as it is now played, entailing

playing time, because the rules, as they were played fornerly, did not provide for a
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