RAY HANSON
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

 

WESTERN ILLINOIS STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

MACOMB, ILLINOIS

RALPH BARCLAY
AGADEMY GYMNASIUM

Macomb Ill. Apr. L.---"Basketball fans are
sick of sterilized ball games" is the belief of
Coach Ray Hanson of Western Illinois State Teachers
College, and with this fact in mind has worked and
experimented to find some solution that will not
alter the game and at the same time will force teams
to play fast offensive ball. During the past two
years, since Canton, Illinois! famed march toward
the national championship using a pure "stall"
the midwest has become the home of slow uninteresting
basketball, and Coach Hanson offers the following
solution to restore basketball to former position
among the indoor sports:

Speed, dash, dribbling, fast breaking, lightning
passing, maxiumum of action, and no chance to stall.
Here you have it. On any court, no matter how long
or how shorte-mark a line across court hh) feet from
end line; that is fourteen feet from your normal
defensive front line--no matter what style of defense
you are using. The front of defense usually forms 30
feet from end line.

When the offence receives the hall he must move
forward by dribbling or passing. He is allowed one
backward pass--no more. He may hold the ball still
for 3 seconds (official counting to 15). When the
members of the offensive go over the active line,
they may retreat back to "Action Line™. Within this
line they may stall all they like, pass and dribble
in any direction they chcose just so they don't
throw or carry the ball back over the “Action Line".
On fump ball near "Action Line" the offensive may tap
ball back over line once. If he does this the rules
for offensive basketball apples. Note: defensive
will not go into offensive territory to get the ball.

Violation---

1. Ball passed back to offensive man standing on
"Action Line"™ |
2. Ball passed back to player over the “Action Line"
- Fumbled ball over "Action Line" by offensive teams
~Hold the ball over 3 seconds (counting bo 15)
5. Passing ball back more than once.
- Passing ball directly sideward more than once.

Recommend this be tried by two teams eliminated in
National H. S. Bartlett Gym and YMCA Tournament in Oak Park