PLAN SUGAR BOWL BASKETBALL

AS USUAL IN 1942

 

AM CORENSWET, executive chairman of the
Sugar Bowl basketball game, which is part of the
New Year's festivities in New Orleans, has announc-
ed that this important intersectional contest would
be played as usual in 1942. Speaking at the New
York Basketball Writers Association luncheon recent-
ly, Corenswet stated, ‘The Sugar Bowl athletic
program will continue as in the past. We don't
think the war will affect the program, and we are
already working on tentative plans.”

Corenswet will act as ye host at the National
Association of Coaches Convention in New Orleans
in March and promised the coaches a meeting and
hospitality they will long remember. He stated that
the Eastern playoff of the N.C.A.A. Tournament,
which will be held March 20 and 21, would be played
with transparent glass, fan-shaped backboards such
as were used in the University of Tennessee-Long
Island University game. However, a white line one
or two inches wide will be painted around the edges
of the backboard for the N.C.A.A. games to aid
visibility of the player.

Now making a business trip every month, Corens-
wet visits as many college basketball games as pos-
sible. He even witnessed parts of two games in one
night on the most recent visit to Pittsburgh, one in
the Duquesne gymnasium and another in the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh gym. He believes there is more
general interest in the improvement and promotion
of basketball as a major sport in the East than in the
south. He pointed out that it has been difficult to
get coaches interested to the degree they should
be in the south, and he has suggested that if they

 

SAUL COFIEN
Long Island U. Forward

would certainly get more out of it in that section.
certainl yget more out of it in that section.

There were over 9000 spectators at the L.I.U.-
Tennessee Sugar Bowl court game, the largest crowd
ever to see a basketball game in the south. Corens-
wet attributed the crowd pull to the nationally
famous Long Island University quintet.

 

COLLEGIATE BASKETBALL OFFICIALS BUREAU
Bulletin to All Officials

(The Eastern Collegiate Basketball Officials Bureau, supported by the Metropolitan

Intercollegiate Basketball Committee, gets out a bulletin to all officials at the beginning

of the season and also another at the halfway mark containing pertinent facts and sugges-

tions to officials. It was thought that the mid-year bulletin, just issued, would be of
interest to mentors and commissioners throughout the country)

Te DIAGONAL line dividing the court is purely
imaginary. Too many officials are neglecting to
cover the narrow end of their division when they
switch to the endline in covering under-the-basket
situations. Every referee and umpire, regardless of
his territorial assignments, should so adjust his posi-
tion that there will be no spots on the floor left

uncovered at any time. COVER MORE, NOT
LESS, THAN YOUR TERRITORIAL ASSIGNMENT,
and in that way all parts of the court will be
covered at all times.

Officials to date have been extremely careless in
giving signals. This mechanical device is definitely
for the benefit not only of the spectators and