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It was further pointed out that in all of the coaches! recommendations
and in the rules body's action that there was not one fundamental of the
game that had been changed in any way. I think this is an important
point, that they did not tamper with the fundamentals of the game, but
realized that in a game of basket bald wastes ame upon publie favor
two salient fundamentals, actior “and 8 coring, and that these two things
hould be taken into eons 4 da: ation, .

By more ee) u have more scoring, Hockey has auch action and little
scoring, pall when played properly has action and seoring,

One other fact. Many of the critics took exeeption to the rule to be
proposed, stating that in the book there was a rule thich was proposed t
the Coaches Association and later adopted by the — : naa ng
ing team was the tean that was behind in the scoring, who a> whew
Pee, bail, The coaches and rules ttee pointed out that
tion and rule was made with an effort te find the reel trouble
» that it was insufficient, They felt that the oo
is Secteee Loe Per ae both teams.
t » Paragraph on one of the Official Basket Bal: Ny for 1931-
‘The purpose each team is to score as many points ag possi-
bie be by toas the ball into its own basket", Certainly the tean t
holds the ball in the baek court 1s not atte to score, WNoeither is
the defensive team by refusing to rush the in order to get the
ball and attempt to score, carr out the se of the game. It was
felt that by foreing the offensive team to vanee the ball, passed to the
line in 10 seconds, that this would encourage offensive play and at the
same time would encourage the defense to come out, At the same time it
was felt that there was p of room to maneuver the ball for a shot
- the basket without giving defensive team too greet an advantage,
It was pointed out that the football rules committee had imposed a penalty
on the offensive team for not putting the ball in play in a certain time
poor Bere ene aeeeiet tite toe ae et Por this reason
it was felt that the responsibility f ssive _ and avoidance
ef dglay should be placed equally een de teams

It is felt now that with more or mt, on the rules that the public

will place such an odium on an oftunehre team that refuses to come out in

their half of the court and play, thet they will be MEenens City this « it

was found charting the Nat'l A.A.U. games in Kansas :

= = Interscholastic tournament and the Texas I seeaase

ie be ei these 582 of the games were det from the

free throw line, In AsA.U. tournament in Kec oars 49 8 of the games

were won by free throwa, or S. hiek oo oe. games oma the A.A.U,

58% were determined, In the ganes the free throw eounted nore

than ne the A.A.U, games. os eae was pointed out that e etaly in the low
store game where the teams used the | slow break to such & great extent was

 
  

  

 

  

  

The point that I made in the earlier Giscussion was that the free throw
counted more préportionately in the low score game than in a high score
game and by these two new rules-, whereby more section and passing by the