The KU. NEWS BUREAU
W. A. Dit1, Director
UNIVERSITY OF Kansas, LAWRENCE

  

Oetcber 27, 1938,

Editor, Liberty Magazine,
New York, N. ¥, :

Dear sir,

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The article, "It's Basketball Now-~--The Game that Has: iverything”
in the November 5 Liberty is most interesting and illuminating, and in “|
the main, I believe, agourate, I would like, however, to call attention

Dre Forrest ¢, "Phog" Allen, and John Bunn, now at Stanford, all aye =
Drs Naismith; called "Doo" by his friends here, rather than "Pop" 48 ~~
your writer nicnamed him, has been on the University of Kansas staff a
for 40 years,and the game has been played that long at this institution.
Dr.Allen, as student and coach, has been at the University of Kansas
BUSS The original rules numbered 15, not l-as your article indicates,
‘I have seen the original rules that were posted, but the page has dis~ =
‘appeared from Dr. Naismith’s files, The present rules may number
(113,-but there are numerous sections to some of them, many subpoints
a, b, and o, and an occasional “interpretation.” — és :

he printer must have confused the formation of the rules body
with “ed Irish's invasion of Madison Square Garden, for there have been
--- wooks of rules long before 1954. In fact the National association of
Basketball Coaches, of which Dr. Allen was one of the organizers and
. first president, was formed at least eight years before that. —

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ay Dr. allen

 

  
  
  

ag . john Bunn's ‘jumpless" game is not entirely jwap
‘held balls are still put play by being jumped for, and th
. «) podists out, is more unjust than the center jump after scores
- teams usually arranged for their tallest men for this jump, where
held ball may bring together players of distinetly different size. Dr.
Naismith insists that the present rule, giving the bali to the team
seored on, and under the basket, really slows the gam, or at least
makes delay possible, Under the old rules time was “out” after
 @ Seore until the ball was tossed again at center--~if timers didn't
_ gbop their clocks they were-not following the rules. Now the ball
goes into play out of bounds, and the player has five seconds to
start, and another ten seconds before he has to be into the forward courts
A rapid-fire type of play, which could have been used under the old rules,
has come into fashion in resenf years and has apparently speeded the game,

se .-The University of Kansas has been playing conferehoe basketba
‘for 80 years, starting in 1908, In that time, Kansas has won the un= ~~
disputed championship of the conference 17 times, and tied for chempion=
ship three more. Fifteen of these Kansas champions were coached b
Dr. Allen,-and he coached seven years of conference championships -
basketball, plus other sports, at Missouri state Teachers at Warrens-
_ burg. Sinee the retirement of Dr. “sanwell of Wisconsin, he is the dean —
of basketball coaches. es ‘