TABLE III

Compares the Forwards, Centers and Guards in their strenuous activity
A -- Individual cases from regular season, a county tournament, State District
and State Regional tournaments and B -= those in the State Class "A" tournament
of Kansas.

 

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Feeeeeeee Player I II Tit IV Game
Forwards 24 2*ré.3" e* 31.4" 2°26.7" 2'20" 9 35.2"

B Forwards 32 2'8.5" of 6u8" 2ti0" 2! 23.8" 8! 44"

A Centers 22 2* 23.8" 2* 25.9" o* 262° 2 sy" 9! 54,6"

B Centers 16 i* 6a" 1' 50.3" i? Ste" FF Ie 7* 56"

A Guards 235 1? 58.3" 21 2,8" 2 22° + 2A" 8' 39,7"

B Guards 32 * 3.8" i* 34.3" +? @i3,5° 3° 5° 6' 46,4"

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Brief conclusions from the above findings

 

1. In high school basketball games as much time is consumed for intermissions
and interruptions as for actual play.

2e That high school players' hyper-strenuous activity averages 2 minutes and
1.6 seconds to 2 minutes and 17.2 seconds per quarter. In other words the players!
strenuous activity is but + of the actual playing time and only ifs of the total
elapsed time of the game.

Se In conclusion this writer does not believe that the average high school

player is hurt physically where he must pass an examination by a physician before

he can participate in athletic contests, mainly in basketball with the elimination

of the center jumpe