However, the coaches went ahead with their organization and
elected me the first president of the rules body. I was re-elected
the following year, and it happened that I am the only coach ‘to serve
two terms as president. I am not boasting about this the
fact that I organized and fought for the rules for the good of the
game would not show very constructively that I was
wedge betwoon any group. Rather,I have worked for the betterment of
basketball rules from the beginning. For a number of years I was
chairman of the Research Committee for both the Basketball Rules
Committee and the Coaches Association. The last two or three years
I have refused offices in the Coaches Association because I felt that
there were too many fellows in the Rules Committee trying to get certain
things done for their betterment rather than for the geme's betterment.

Nat Holman and a lot of these fellows have had their faces all
over Longine Watch advertisements, others have sponsored bananas and
Postum and so forth, which I think is against the best ethics of the
coaching profession. I have never been with or for any particular
group, but em for the betterment of the game. My argument was to bring
@ referee from each section so they would bring the proponents of the
different styles closer together. Having officials only from New York
when you are meeting New York coaches is not doing for the game the
thing that many of the coaches hope.

Hank Tha told ms to throw away all the plays we had and just
roll, which means pass at angles and run in curves, and set up the post
play because the east knows nothing about post plays.

That article that you have by Irving Marsh states the oppertunity
of different coaches, which is about the same as what Hank Iba said.

about one in four games among the top teams, and then they will be
lueky to win that one if the westerners used the same system as the
easterners of having all western officials. Wouldn't you say, Mao,

that

from the east to whip a western tegy? ‘That is why my argument has been

made, that the west is much better than the east when they go to the east

and play under eastern restrictions and still defeat them on the easterners
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floor. The east (is wprogressive. They poohepoched

Nat Holman made a statement that he would never let any of his
boys use a one-hand shot which shows a prejudice against certain
western and middle western activities. The difficulty is that the
easterners think New York ie the center-of basketball. It is not. It
is the center of publicity of basketball because it is the' clearing