NATIONAL COLL EGIATE 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 Vice Cuatrman, JOHN BUNN gegen pa Ponti Cissouan, 1: 4, SALON, Je. Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, Calif. 40 Wall St., New York, N. Y. Treasurer, FLOYD A. ROWE Research Questionnaire Board of Education, Cleveland, Ohio Forrest C. ALLEN H. V. Porter Secretary, H. V. PORTER Game Administration Sumner A. Dote 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 11 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, Illinois Eptror, OSWALD TOWER Andover, Massachusetts May 29, 1939 Mr. F. Ce. Allen Univ. of Kansas awrence, Kansas Dear Mr. allen: Here is a summary of the sentiment relative to the proposed backboard whieh was diagrammed in a former letter which wentwith the basketball minutes./ A few of the men have not answered but of the twelve who did, the proposed diagramg appears to be satisfactory except for the following suggestions. Salmon thinks the proposed board is satisfactory except that he would eliminate the "cut-out" directly behind the ring and would extend the straight edges at the side a trifle higher. St. Clair desires to make some further observations before committing him- self. Springfield, Massachusetts A. F. Jefferess 114 Carrick Ave. Hamilton, Ont., Canada Frank P. Maguire I thought you would be glad to have the results so that they might seve as something of a guide in your further studies relative to the matter. Dept. of Public Instruction R : Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 4ยป fear as the Interscholastic Edition of the Pasketball Guide is concerned, 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 I felt it desirable to include a few comments relative to the matter. These comments are inthe supplementary pages of the guide and not in the body of the rules. Since copy had to be sent to the print er at about the time I last wrote you, the best I could do was toconfine my comments to the minimum and maximum dimensions as outlined at the rules meeting. You will, of course, use your own judgment as to what diagrams or pictures are jneluded with your article in the almanac section of the guide. Since we have already spent one year in experimental work connected with the part of the old board that is actually used, it seems to me desirable to continue the work with boards somewhat similar to that which I diagrammed. We have already had a number of schools making up boards of various sizes in the manual training departments. Such boards were in use during the latter part of the past season. Unless we can give these men something fairly definite a great deal of the benefits of work which has already been started will be lost. It seems to me it would be a mistale for us to confine our efforts to boards of the present shape end size but with a convex surface. The work which has already been done indicates that a great deal of the value in any change would come frome limination of a considerable portion of the board below the level of the ring.