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OswaLp Tower, Editor

ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS

March 13, 1933.

Dr. Forrest C. Allen,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence.

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I have your letter of March 11 concerning the 4 |
changes in the rules which went into effect during the y x
past season. Personally I am very much pleased with the %,
results, and when I say " personally " I mean the results oy
as I have viewed them with my ow eyes, and the testimony \
that has come to me from many and varied sources. Woe
the opinion is almost unanimously in favor of the ten-
/ second rule, and only slightly less favorable toward the
/ three-second rule./The questionnaires have only just begun .
to come in and therefore I cannot give you the verdict
from that source, but I anticipate that the questionnaires
 . will verify the opinions that have been expressed to me
_Y in conversations and through direct correspondence,

Dear Phog:

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Before the season opened I received a number of
strong protests against the changes, but once the season
was underway these objections subsided almost entirely.

I am still marvelling over the fact that changes which
affected so drastically the complexion of the game as
_ played in many regions could function so smoothly the
 “\ first season. The game has been faster, scores higher,
AR and the_bucket play has practically disappeared.
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or i. You will recall my statement last April to
X the effect that I hoped my fears about these unseasoned
’ changes would prove to be groundless, that I intended

to support the changes whole-heartedly, and that I
hoped to be able to state a year hence that they had
accomplished all that their sponsors claimed. My con-
fession is now ready and I congretulate you—and others
who pushed the ten-second rule. te a fs

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