BETTER BASKETBALL INCORPORATING TECHNIQUE, TACTICS AND TALES

, : By Forrest Ce Allene 7 Si Ge :

This entirely new text on basketball soiacony is not a rewrite of my
Basket Ball Bible published in 1924 but is an entirely new book graphically ex=
plaining in minute detail all of the latest developments in the evolution of
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A new prdbaubetios method ica heed attempted, that of showing the
diagram, the phofgreph and the ebhituien or explanation of the play, all in
sequences

In fois manner it should be en easy matter to follow the minutest
step in every play situatione Many things left to the imagination of the
reader are now cleared upe 7

Better Basket Ball is profusely illustrated with 163 action bhote=
grephs end 86 diagrams of pines Phoggraphs follow diagrams to give clarity.

Individual offense, individual defense, team offense and team defense
are exhaustively treated because upon the fundementalsof the individual are
dependent the success of team fundementals and cohgequent winning wedounns

Technique is individual offense and defenses Tactics are team
offense and team defense while Tales are inspéerational stories of great games
playede The psychological ingredient-sometimes a laugh = sometimes a tear -
‘make these stories not only intensely attractive but open up a new field to
new coaches by using this highly ingeresting phase of basket ball pedagogy
in actually winning games that iorwiss might be loste By turning adverse
situations tite faeerible game winning surprises is the purpose of the author
in presenting the chapter on Talese

A most complete chapter on Treatment of Athletic Injuries has been
presented to enable the coach to ERY bette? condition”his men under his charge
end further to aid him in treating such injuries that a coach ae
should know more aboute Often by simple and early treatment of a strain or

- sprain, a player is saved from a more serious complication and a possible loss

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of an important gamee