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tact needlessly and it degenerates into a wrestling match. The
limited floor area is justification for this rule.

On a jump ball at center, or elsewhere, the jumpers
are forbidden to touch the ball after it has been tapped until
it has touched the floor or one of the other eight players, except
that the jumpers may tap the ball more than once in attempting to
make it @rop outside the jumping circle. The penalty is loss of
the ball as in other violations.

A goal from the field counts for the team into whose
basket it is thrown. Again an answer has been inserted to cover
free throws into the wrong basket, placing the responsibility on
the feferee in the latter instance.

Formerly fouls on the jump ball such as tapping it
on the way up or leaving the center circle have been changed to

violations.
Noté: The ball goes to the opponent out of bounds.)

Another change of importance has been the so called
five point rule, namely,- when a player has been fouled in the
act of shooting the ball is to go to center after the second free
throw if the field goal is made. If the field goal is missed,
the old rule holds; viz, the ball is in play if the last free
throw is missed. This change makes it impossible for a player to
score five points when fouled in the actof shooting. That is
he cannot get a follow-up shot if he misses his second free throw,
provided he makes his field goal. ©
Note: If a player is fouled in the act of shooting and the goal
should be allowed, should the player miss his first #&esé free
throw, the ball must go up at center, following the second attempt
whether it is made or missed. In this ease, it is only possible for
the player to make three points. Coaches contend that this would
be sufficient by allowing the goal,and one free throw would be
ample. Other coaches held that the player should have two trys but
certainly the possibility of five points for a single try was too

much.

The Committee diecussed stalling but it is becoming
less of a problem, due to the fact that the cash customers or spec-
‘tators, are strong in their denunciation of the team that does not
provide action. The public is getting a better understanding of
the game and they realize that the team not in possession of the
ball, the defensive team, 1s responsible for stalling. Possession
is nine points in basket ball, as in law, and it is up to the de-
fensive team to play the ball or try to obtain it.

All of these things were discussed at the Nati onal
Basket Ball Coaches Association, which met in Chicago last April
prior to the meeting of the Joint Committee in New York. Certain
recommendations were made to the Joint Committee by the Board of
Directors of the National Basket Ball Coaches Association.