BETTER
BASKETBALL

Technique, Tactics and Tales

By FORREST C. “PHOG” ALLEN

Director of Physical Education and Coach of
Basketball, University of Kansas

ERE is a comprehensive and thorough manual that incor-
H porates many helpful facts for the player, trainer-
manager, or official, in his own phases of the game, that gives
the coach a complete methodology for developing every
factor of team and individual skill, and that interprets the
spirit and technique of basketball in an interesting and
informative way for every follower of the game. The author
explains graphically the most advanced developments of the
game, and through copious use of diagrams and photographs
makes clear every detail of individual and team play.
Offense and defense, both team and individual, are exhaus-
tively treated. Individual and team technique and training
also are fully covered, and all these pointers are coordinated
in game and play formations of many types.

Besides the full treatment of the technique of the game,
the author covers all other departments, from suggestions
for officials and managers, to the important duties ot the
trainer. An entire section is devoted to the treatment of
athletic injuries; shows actual tapings, bandages, and braces;
outlines emergency measures; covers diet and conditioning;
gives scores of valuable pointers for quickly restoring players
to condition and keeping them in the game. A special feature
of the book is the group of tales of actual games, showing
how contests have been won by the use of applied psychol-
ogy. These true stories are full of human details that illus-
trate the kind of psychological strategy which causes men to
outdo themselves and upset unfavorable scores and adverse
conditions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

163 photographs graphically illustrate the individual
offense, the individual defense, the team offense and
the team defense. 86 diagrams depict game forma-
tions and augment the author’s clarifying discus-
sions of many confusing and technical points.

 

 

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Modern technique, the development of
plays and players, the fine points of all
departments of the game—an inter-
pretation and guide for all who super-
vise, play, or watch basketball, and
would knew the game at its best.

WHITTLESEY House
Sports SERIES

490 pages, 6x9, illustrated, $4.00

Contents

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I. BEGINNINGS

. The Wider Scopes of the Game
. Practical Research in Basketball

Officiating
The Playing Court and its Equipment
Box-office Appeal

. Seasonal Preparation
. Selecting the Men
. Esprit de Corps

II. TECHNIQUE

. Motivation of Basketball Fundamen-

tals for Younger Boys

. The Dribble, the Stop, and the Pivot
. The Passes

. The Shots and the Held Balls

. Guarding

III. TACTICS

. The Evolution of the Offense with Its

Resultant Screen

. Offensive Screens against Man-for-

man

. Offensive Practice Floor Drills
. Offensive Plays from Center Tip-off

and Out-of-bounds

. Set Offenses against Zone Defenses

19. The Evolution of Team Defense

20. Special Defensive Situations

21. The Stratified Transitional Man-for-
man Defense with the Zone Principle

IV. ATHLETIC INJURIES AND
EMERGENCIES

22. The Trainer and His Equipment

23. Sprains or Synovitis of Joints

24. Bandaging Head, Arm, and Shoulder

25. Bandaging Wrist, Thumb, H2nd, and
Fingers

26. Bandaging Thigh, Leg, and Knee

27. Bandaging Ankle and Fost

28. Specific Manipulations

29. Emergencies

V. TALES OF THE YESTERYEARS

30. A Phantom in Cleated Shoes

31. “Loyalty First”? Undone

32. The Dream Touchdown

33. A Game That Built a Stadium

34. Three Obstacles against One Hope
35. A Lifetime in a Night

36. Listening for a Droning Plane

37. The Way of the Transgressor

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