REPORT OF BASKETBALL RULES COMMITTEE

A meeting of the old Executive Committee was held at the
McAlpin Hotel, New York City, Friday evening, April 3. A full
membership was present. At this Executive Committee meeting all
matters pertaining to the operation of the old National Basketball
Committee of the United States and Canada were officially closed.

Pursuant to your Basketball Chairman’s interpretation of the
N.C. A. A. Executive Committee action of May 3, 1935, a meeting
of the N.C.A.A. Rules Committee was called for the McAlpin
Hotel, in New York, Saturday, April 4. Other organizations previ-
ously associated with the N.C. A.A. were invited to attend and
participate in the Rules Committee work on the former basis of
representation (four from the National High School Federation, two
from the A.A. U., two from ‘the Y.M.C.A., and ‘two. from
Canada). The National High School Federation and the Canadian
delegates accepted the invitation, and therefore were represented in
the reorganization of the Basketball Rules Committee.

This group decided to continue use of the name “National Basket-
ball Committee of the United States and Canada.”

Permission was granted to the National High School Federation
to print and distribute the rules adopted by this Rules Committee,
it being understood that the High School Federation would not
share in the royalty received from the sale of the Official Basketball
Guide.

Canadian interests do not wish to print the rules, preferring to
use the Official Guide as printed by the National Collegiate. It is
the understanding of your Chairman that the question of Canadian
interests sharing in the Basketball Guide royalty was left open to be
considered later on a basis of the number of Guides actually sold in
Canada.

This Committee (National Basketball Committee of the United
States and Canada) organized by electing the following officers:

Chairman, L. W. St. John

Vice Chairman, H. H. Salmon, Jr.
Secretary, H. V. Porter
Treasurer, Floyd A. Rowe
Editor, Oswald Tower

Additional members of the Executive Committee:
J. H. Crocker
H. A. Swaffield
W. McK. Barber

A further action of the new organization was a motion that
twenty per cent of the funds distributed by Treasurer Metzdorf be
loaned to the Committee for one year, in order that the Committee
might have funds with which to meet current expense.

All N.C. A.A. districts were represented at this year’s Basket-
ball Rules Committee meeting.

L. W. St. Joun,
Chairman.