HO\; MUCH DOZS i. HIGH SCHCOL BASKETBALL PL/.YER MOVE GREATER THAN A WALK?

This study was made by Ernst A. Uhrlaub, a graduate student at the
University of Kansas, for his Master's Degree, in collaboration with Dre
Forrest C. Allen, Director of Physical Education and Prof. E, ®. Elbel of
the Department of Physical Education of the University of Kansase

The following is only a brief of this writer's study as time is too
short to go into detail and will not be completed until the end of this present
school year when it will be presented as his Thesis.

The study was prompted by the statement made by Coach Lew andreas of
Syracuse University at Syracuse, N, Ye that the present elimination of the
center jump made the game of basketball too strenuous for high school athletes.
Since no data was forwarded in Coach Andreas! statement this writer determined
to find out how much hyper-strenuous activity a high school player indulges

in by playing a game. The criterion of movement was that movement made by

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a player greater than a walk.

The timing was done by stop watches, and at the State Class "A" tourna~
ment of Kansas stop watches were put on each member of a team. Of course the
movement timed hack to be subjective but enough cases were gathered to make the
results appear valid.

No report except that made by Dr. James Naismith in the 1925-26 Basket-
ball Guide could the writer find as to how much a high school player was in
motion in a basketball game where the center jump was in effect.

In brief, Dr. Naismith made this report. "The average length of a game
at Kansas City, Moe High Schools was 69 minutes and the playing time was 40
minutes, leaving 29 minutes for rest. He also timed all movements made by a
player and the report was 20 minutes and 12 seconds per game." In this writer's
reports movements were those greater than a walk.

The following tables, in short will tell the story of this writer's

findings: