NATIONAL COLLEGIATE A. A. -

NATIONAL FEDERATION H. S. A. A. - Y. M. C, A. - C:’ANADIAN I. A. U. and A. B. A.

 

NATIONAL BASKETBALL COMMITTEE
of the UNITED STATES and CANADA

CHAIRMEN OF SUB-COMMITTEES

Executive

H. H. Satwon, Jr.

Research
Forrest C. ALLEN

Game Administration

Publication
Oswa.p TowER

Questionnaire
H. V. Porter

Vice CHairman, JOHN BUNN
Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, Calif.

Treasurer, FLOYD A. ROWE
Board of Education, Cleveland, Ohio

Evitorn, OSWALD TOWER
Andover, Massachusetts

Cuairman, H. H. SALMON, Jr.
40 Wall St., New York, N. Y.

Secretary, H. V. PORTER
11 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, Illinois

Sumner A. DoLe

Complete List of |
Committee Members

F. C. Allen
-Univ. of Kansas.
Lawrence, Kansas

John Brown, Jr.
347 Madison Ave. |
New York, New York

John Bunn
Stanford Univ.
Palo Alto, California

Forrest Cox
Colorado University
Boulder, Colorado

J. H. Crocker
Univ. of Western Ontario
London, Ont., Canada

M. C. Cunningham
High’ School
Desloge, Missouri

Sumner A. Dole
Connecticut State College
Storrs, Connecticut

J. Mark Good
Sun-Gazette Co.

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

E. J. Hickox
Springfield College
Springfield, Massachusetts

A. F. Jefferess
114 Carrick Ave.
Hamilton, Ont., Canada

Frank P. Maguire
Dept. of Public Instruction
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

H. G. Olsen
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

Curtis Parker
Centennary College
Shreveport, Louisiana

H. V. Porter
11 S. LaSalle St.
Chicago, Illinois

Floyd A. Rowe
Board of Education
Cleveland, Ohio

J. W. St. Clair
Southern Methodist Univ.
Dallas, Texas

H. H. Salmon, Jr.
40 Wall St. .
New York, New York

Oswald Tower. |
Andover, Massachusetts

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The Medart people and other manufacturers have indicated that it would
not be an especially difficult matter to design a basket which will clamp
on the lower edge of the board. The Medart people have indicated that
they are enough interested in this whole project to make up boards of
any shape or size which might be suggested by the Basxxetball Committee.

I assume that you are planning to keep in contact with Medart and that
you will give them something definite to work on. they state that they
are now at a standstill wmtil such time as the committce may indicate the
direction the experimentation should take.

I note your comment to the effect that the Medarts should not be expected
to finance all of this work. I agree with you that it would be more desir-
able for the constituent bodies of the rules committee to take care of such
financing provided funds can be made available for the work. My thought

in the matter has beenthat for the boards which may be used in this locality,
we will depend upon manual training shops for the construction or we will
continue our practice of asking some of the high schools that are erecting
new gymnasiums to pay the manufacturing cost for a pair of boards which
may be used on the practice courts, these boards to be made up in accord-
ance with the design agreed upon bythe committee. When such beards are
installed as a definite part of the gymnasium equipment they should be
such that the technique of shooting will not be appreciably different.

This would be true with boards of a different size and shape but would

not apply in case the surface of the board is changed. Consequently I
would hesitate to ask any school to pay the costs of installing the convex
boards.

The main problem at the present time seems to be to attempt an agreement
on the desigh toward which we should be working. If you think the data

at hand are not sufficient to warrant our centering attention upon a board
such as that which was outlined, I suggest that an attempt be made to out-
line another form for the guidance of the various manual training depart-
ments or equipment manufacturers who may be interested in this work over
the slack summer month seasone

Yours trul

  

Secretary

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