March 23, 1944.

Mr. Veston Mitohel1, Coach,
Central High Sehool,
Minneapolis, Mimmesota.

Dear Coach Mitchell:

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Parkins. It was a decided shock when I learned of Ray's passing, be-
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you that I would go along with your idea one hundred per cent.
_ only criticism I have been making of many of the auggestions of the
basketball rules comnittee is mainly that they are discriminatory.

Dees this rule of yours permit both the offense and the
defense the samo latitude? If you would pormit the defense to say.
in thet area then he could still bat the ball away from the basket.
The way the rule reads the defeiisive man might take two steps in any
direotion and then change his direction and still camp around the
basket. tion't you elaborate upon this idea of yours? —

I am sending you a copy of a broadcast that I made last
Thursday, March 16th over the University station. You can get my
idea concerning some of the rules. Personally, I am not on the rules
committee and have been very much disappointed at the college coashes'
lassitude in doing something constructive about the rules. About the
only time a college coach seems exercised about a rule is when he has
an opponent against his team that is ap’ to defeat him. There are few
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With all good wishes, I an

Sincerely yours,

| : Director of Physical Education,
 FOA:AH | Varsity Basketball Coach. J