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 of 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. ~ CON AMP W HL 14. IS. 16. 17: 18. sd : See this book for Jundamentals, Practi Sine points of tech Motivation, and « nique, in = skill movements”? —m i con fon team offense and def Tough a zone defe NSe; set pl mage formation, ia against the man-for-man defense —Sc. ing ; Teening ; how and when ‘to execute —applied Psychology; able scores and ady plays, these plays leading men tou erse conditions — conditioning Players; tr. injuries; handling emergencies —Selecting men, before and during games cal methods, group training in fundamentals esa, ~ development of b all-h i Player skills and of andling and other individual ense; how to S from scrim- Plays Pset unfavor- eating all kinds of athletic equipping them, handling them Staging the co Officiating, etc, ntest, creating pbox- office appeal, | 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 know the game at its best. WHITTLESEY HousE Sports SERIES 490 pages, 6x9, illustrated, $4.00 Contents . Esprit de Corps I. BEGINNINGS 19. Es Evolution of Jee Defense Peper dens G 20. Special Defensive Situations : po ee ee 21. The Stratified Transitional Man-for- . Officiating man Defense with the Zone Principle . The Playi “ts Equi = Ree ee ase ee: Iv. ATHLETIC INJURIES AND . Seasonal Preparation EMERGENCIES - Selecting the Men 22. The Trainer and His Equipment 2 Vee or pe of see oar 1 5 24. andagin ead, Arm, an oulider d i ee 25 : Bandaging West, -Titmh, Hang.and The Dribble tne Stop, and the Pivot. eee . The So and the Held Balls ade Tit TACTICS V. TALES OF THE YESTERYEARS The Evolution of the Offense with Its 30. A Phantom in Cleated Shoes Resultant Screen 31. “Loyalty First”? Undone Offensive Screens against Man-for- 32. The Dream Touchdown s man 33 A Game That Built a Stadium Offensive Practice Floor Drills 34. Three Obstacles against One Hope Offensive Plays from Center Tip-off 35. A Lifetime in a Night and Out-of-bounds 36. Listening for a Droning Plane Set Offenses against Zone Defenses 37 . The Way of the Transgressor .