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Coaches, I remember a few outstanding coaches who were there «~
Clarense "Nibs" Price, of California, the Big Ten coaches, the
Missouri Valley coashes, ~ in fact it seemed as if wo had the major-
ity of the nation's coaches there. They elected me as the first
president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and
the foliowing year they re-elected me. :

During all the time that I heave been connected with
the National Basketball Coaches Association the coaches have never

adopted, I think that is en exceptional record. Born in a state of
insurrection, so to speak, the Coaches Association has been the Rules
Committee's best advisor.

We immediately started on research work, ie wuld
try certain projects out before we would recommend them to the Rules
body. I served for a mumber of years as chairman of the Research
Committee of the Coaches Association, end also for e number of years
I was chairman of the Research Cormittee of the National Basketball
Rules Committee, There hag been much research done. John Bumn at
Stanford, Porter, of Chicago, and I perhaps have done the most.
Until the formation of the National Association of Basketball Coaches
there was no ressarch work done, There is much being carriod on at

present, Z

: So, a3 Dr. Naismith was the originator of the
of tasketball, we here at Kansas have boon the originators of the
formation of the Coaches Association and the research work.

In 1929 I wrote an artiole for Major Griffith in the
Athletic Journal entitled "Basketball in the Olympics". Even prior
~ to this I had boen working on incorporating basketball in the Olympic
Games, In 1952 I obtained approval that we have basketball as a
deminstration game in the Olympics in Los Angeles, but due to a monetary
consideration a game of football was put on which Pop Warner, Jimy
 -Phalen and the Coast crew promoted « a demonstration for money and not
for the sport. 80 basketball lost out, a

_ 1 comtimued the fight end while at Los Angeles met
*Soehaku Ri of Waseda University at Tokyo, Japan, and had commmications
with Dre Carl Diem, of Berlin. tr. Diem notified me here in Lawrence
prior to any notification in the country that basketball had been in-
corporated in the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, I then visited
the executive committee of the National Basketball Rules Committee,
Major Griffith of the National Collegiate, and I formulated and started
the drive for the "Neismith Night", the money to be obtained to buy Dr.
smith a home that he hed lost during the World War, and to send him
Berlin, Germany. We raised seven thousand dollars by this means,
and the entire sum was turned over to Dr. Nelismith.