August 29, 1941.

lire Ae Je MeDonald,
Southwest Missouri State Teachers Osllerss
Springfield, Missouri.

Dear Andy:
I have just returned from the Iowa State High School
Coaches Association coaching school where Clark Shaughnessy, Bernie

Bierman, Henry Iba and I were om the teaching facultys We had a full
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‘I will be happy to help you om your theais require-
ment for the Master's degree. I would suggest, ‘Andy, that you have
some place in this numerical list something to show the research :
work, administrative work, and so forthe

, I am not trying to toot my own horn, but when the
Rules Committee some ten or twelve years ago legislated the dribble
out of the rules, I remember that I was speaking before the National
Educetion Association Committee on Athletics which met in Des Moines,
Iowa. EKmuite Rockne was speaking at the Drake field house at this
section on the Pedagogy of Football, end my subject before that was
the Pedagogy of Basketball. The news came over the wire regarding
re re ee ee ee See
bble.

I made the following statement to the assembled
group in the Drake field house concerning the deletion of the dribble:
“The autocratic and high<handed method of the National Basketball
Rules Committee in ruling out the dribble without obtaining the per=-
mission of the majority of the coaches is subject to gross condemnation.
What the broken field run is to football the dribble is to basketball.

and pass. zt gives on sppertentty for r more open play and frees the ball
Spam, Sonata de ppp he . resent the action he Ru:

of the country agreeing with my stand and we called this meeting to be
held in Dea Moines the night prior to the |
meeting and the coaches voted to meet in

National Collegiate Athletic Association
and procedure for the formation of the National Association of Basketball