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The effect upon scoring and shooting generally. Basketball
is an attraction because of its action. Action and scoring
as in this sport. Basketball is a greater

 

attraction than hockey, for instance, at the present time
because there is more scoring in basketball. Anything,
therefore, that will tend to decrease the amount of scoring

ig a questionable chatige. ifs a type of scoring the maneuvring
which produces the set-up shot is the most thrilling to the
spectators. The answer to this question was sought by charting
tition and during practice shooting
without opposition. From the tabulated date down below it can

 
  

   

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be readily seen that in this particular investigation the
scoring was very decidedly reduced when the higher goals were

used.

The effect on roughness under the basket. Will raising the
baskets tend to open up the play around the basket and decrease
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the higher baskets ieee such a change seem to be a desirable
one? The answer to these questions was sought through charting
the rebounds from the baskets at the three different Seieiee by
noting the distance that the ball tended to rebound from the
backboa

 

» Also the general congestion or lack of it wider the
basket during actual scr

 

age was observed for the different

baskets. The conclusion dram was that crowding and massed play

under the basket was largely eliminated but the result was hardly
desirable. See tabulation and comm

 

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