UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

LAWRENCE

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

To the Basketball Coach —-

Your success as a coach depends upon your acquiring the latest methods
in fundamentals and play execution. Doubtless you have heard of my new source
book on basketball, entitled BETTER BASKETBALL, in which Technic, Tactics and
Tales predominate.

I am wondering if we are using the latest and most improved methods of
teaching this game of basketball. If many teachers of history, English and
mathematics resorted to the old time method of teaching, in which the instruc-—
tor had access to the only book in the class, then I am wondering just how
much we would learn. The libraries are filled with reference and source books
of all kinds to which the instructor refers the students for sources of study
so that the student may get a well-rounded education.

Why is it not logical then that your school library obtain the best text
available on basketball for your basketball players? There is no good reason
to expect that a coach be forced to purchase these books. Every school has a
library fund, and it is thinkable to me that you should ask your library to
purchase one or more copies of BETTER BASKETBALL for the use of your students.
I might add that our own Lawrence Memorial High School purchased four copies
of the book for their school library. Mr. Neal Wherry, the principal, writes
as follows:

"The first day the books were in the library the librarian
reported that they had been worth what they cost because
one of her most troublesome boy customers had been reading
in one of them and kept quiet. Our head English teacher
has approved the book for use in English classes.

"Besides containing plenty of good technical information,
with numerous drawings and pictures, the book abounds in
good psychology. Especially to be commended to the high
school students are the eight game short stories.

"We are very enthusiastic about the book and think that the
teachers and students of any high school should be."

This exhaustive volume on basketball contains everything that a player,
a coach and a trainer should know. When any player is not up to par on his fun-
damentals the coach could assign certain chapters or parts of chapters to this

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