Diagram 5.

Advantages: 1. Stops a blocking game.
2. Saves energy of players. 3. Presents
strong rebound positions. 4. Makes for a
good fast-break formation. 5. Playing
the ball makes for pass interceptions. 6.
Especially effective on narrow floors. 7.
Especially effective against weak-shooting
guards. 8. Easy to coach. 9. Conducive
to team play. 10. Big, tall, slow, defen-
sive men can be developed into an effec-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diagram 6.

tive zone team, whereas in other defenses
they would be less effective. 11. Less
fouling means keeping the line-up intact
longer, and less free-throws for the op-
ponents. 12. Develops ball “hawks.” 13.
A strong defense against short shots. 14.
A strong defense against a driving team.

Disadvantages: 1. Weak against a
good-shooting team. 2. Weak against
good side-shots and long shots. 38. Weak

Diagram 7.

against two men in one zone. 4. Weak
against a delayed offense. 5. Requires
more team play than man-to-man de-
fense. 6. Prevents two-timing the op-
ponent’s star player. 7. Becomes less
effective on larger floors. 8. Clever pass-
ing teams find the weak spots. 9. The
type of player used in this defense is
often very weak in the man-to-man de-
fense.

It Can Be Done, It Is Being Done!

The Objectives of the
South Carolina Physical
Fitness Program

By John K. Cauthen

Director of Publicity, South Carolina
Council for Defense

months ago, South Carolina has ad-

vanced its college and public school
physical education program to the extent
that it, today, includes seventeen colleges
and three hundred and fifty high schools
in which compulsory physical training has
been inaugurated.

Special instructors, brought up to dat
at training clinics conducted by the army
and navy, are directing the work in all
forty-six counties of the state under the
general supervision of the state director,
A. P. (Dizzy) McLeod, football coach at
Furman University, Greenville.

The first state in the union to adopt a
compulsory program, South Carolina’s
efforts are being sponsored by the State
Council for Defense and the State Depart-
ment of Education.

Fifty-five South Carolina instructors,
including Director McLeod, attended the
recent clinic held by the naval pre-flight
school at Athens, Georgia. The pre-flight
methods of training have been adopted as
official for South Carolina schools and
colleges.

Aims and objectives as listed by Di-

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rector McLeod follow:

“To give a well-rounded program in
physical training and conditioning for all
high-school and college boys of the state;
to devolop in every boy co-ordination,
sense of timing and sense of balance so
that he will be able to handle himself un-
der the most trying conditions.

“We are resorting to various forms of
athletics, such as boxing, track, natural
gymnasium tumbling, wrestling, football,
baseketball, hand-to-hand and military
drills, first-aid, calisthenics and other skills.

“Our plans have the full approval of
the State Department of Education and
of individual school and college heads
throughout the state. Public school super-
intendents and principals readily adopted
resolutions endorsing. the physical educa-
tion program, which calls for an hour a
day, five days a week.”

McLeod said that a special program
now is being arranged for girls, which will
place emphasis upon nursing, first aid
and hygiene in addition to physical train-
ing.

“So many girls and women are being
called upon in various ways to win the
war, that we want our school and college
girls in South Carolina prepared for future
emergencies,” McLeod explained.

The work so far has been largely volun-
tary on the part of instructors, with the
State Council for Defense financing in-
cidentals, but it is planned at the January,
1943, session of the State Legislature to
propose special state appropriations, so
that the director and his chief assistants
may devote their full time to the program.

Enthusiastic support has been given
the program by Dr. William P. Jacobs,
chairman of the State Council for Defense
and president of Presbyterian College, of
Clinton.

Dr. Jacobs commended the “excellent
progress already made” and paid tribute
to “the unselfish work of Dizzy McLeod.”

McLeod, who was a football star at
Clemson College, has been head football
coach at Furman for the past ten years
and has been eminently successful. So
great has been his personal enthusiasm
for the work that he has taken special
physical training courses to become better
prepared for the vigorous campaign he is
conducting throughout the state.

McLeod is among those who believe
that. the program should include boys and
girls of thirteen and fourteen years of
age who are still in elementary schools.
In this connection he states:

“The younger we start teaching them
the right kind of exercise and habits, the
better men and women they will make,
whether or not they are ever needed in
winning the war. I think, as a matter of
fact, that the physical training program
should be continued as a permanent policy
in our schools and colleges.

“We have in this country put much
emphasis on ‘spectator’ sports. I think
it is great to have enormous crowds en-
joying football, baseball and the other
sports as spectators, but at the same time
we should encourage participation in
actual play by more of our boys and
girls. I believe that the program we are
now getting under way as a war measure

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