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KANSAS STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

REES H. HUGHES, PRESIDENT
PITTSBURG, KANSAS

March 17, 1943.

 

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

 

Dear Dr. Allen: es

First I want to congratulate you for having
had another splendid basketball team and for having i
gone undefeated through your Conference schedule ae
to another Championship. I enjoyed working in es
several of your games. You had a great bunch of E
boys who could come through when it was needed, os

I worked in the Oklahoma-Oklahoma A.& M.
series and those games indicated to me rather
‘ clearly that we should have some kind of a rule
to protect a team against the abnormally tall
player. I contend that if an offensive team can
work the ball in for a scoring opportunity and get
their shot away, they should not be deprived of an
opportunity of scoring two points Just because the
opponent has a monstrocity parked under their basket
vho can jump and reach the ball above the basket,
yet not in the 18" cylinder protected by the present
rule.

Iba played his seven foot center for about three '
quarters of the game at Stillwater and he intercepted ae
about every shot that Oklahoma took. Twice goals {
were allowed for his getting his hand in the restricted .
area above the goal, The Oklahoma players were bewildered ee
by not being able to get a shot to reach the basket and
had to resort to banking their shots,

I suggest one of two rule changes or poth. fat/ i
goals can be raised to a point where the(bigy p = i
can not reach the ball which would virtually eliminate ‘=

him as an effective player, or we can have a rule
that will prohibit the defensive team from touching
the ball after the offensive team has successfully
gotten a shot away, until the ball has either made
or missed the goal,

 

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I shall be interested in learning what you may |
think of these suggestions. I know that you have been |
an advocate of raising the baskets, for years.