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Finally there is the effect of the higher goal on the playing facilities

ef the different organizations which participate in the sport. There are
still many localities where adequate playing facilities are not available.
Many teams play on courts with exceptionally low ceflings so that the
raising of the goals would mean discar ing of such facilities. It isa |

 

most difficult problem to determine the extent to which this factor would
affeet the different localities. ‘The following information was obtained
from state supervisors of physical education in sixteen different states

and gives a fair cross section of opinion on conditions for the United

 

States. The information received fr
Summed up under the following th:
a 1. The majority of the letters indicate that the supervisors
are absolutely against any
They see no need for such a change in the rules and from the

' these different States has been

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change in the height of the basket,

 

ndpoint of the high school teams they think thst ‘the plan
is highly impractical. Viewed from the standpoint of the present
facilities of the high school throughout the country, they feel
that such « change woul be impossible in the majority of cases
of high school gymmasia.

 

 

Be There were some who felt that the change in the height of the
basket might be an advantage to college — but a very decided dis~
advantage and an impractical procedure on the part of high school

teams and the teams of evem lower grades. Therefore, these individuals

 

suggested &@ graded system of heights for the goal to conform to the
group involved. This height would range from eight feet in the case
of the elementary school player to twelve feet for the college teams

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