DISCLOSES NEED TO CHANGE
COACHING ETHICS REPORT

 

Foreword—Eddie Hickey, chairman of the Coaching Ethics Committee, was kina
enough to furnish the complete report of his body as submitted at the last annual meeting.
At that time it received little attention. Reprint of this report seems timely now im view

of the many fine points which still seem to need emphasizing.

Report of

COACHING ETHICS COMMITTEE
New York City
March 24, 1941

Mr. President:

The members of the Coaching Ethics Committee are as follows:

Sa Dane University of Southern Calif.
dames baler oa ee South Dakota State
Bee ree University of Oklahoma
bee avies oc. on i eee University of West Ontario
AN one een ee ee Hamline University
Aer Severance. 2a ee ee Villanova College

On behalf of our Association and myself, | wish
to thank these men for their active and diligent
work as members of this Committee.

With the permission of the President, and with
the assistance of the Editor, the Committee was
responsible for the publication of the Basketball
Coaches Creed in the December issue of the Asso-
ciation's Bulletin. Your attention is directed to this
Creed and we should like to suggest that every
coach frame this copy and give it a prominent place
on the wall of his office. It will serve as a constant
reminder of the principles of good behavior as ap-
plied to the coaching profession.

As respects these problems, the following excerpts
from various reports throughout the United States
truly reflects the general trend of coaching ethics
today.

"For the period of the last five years in which
we have been playing intercollegiate basketball,
both in the United States and Canada, our relations
with both the coaches’ and the officials has been
steadily improving... + :

"The relationship between the coaches in our
league is friendly . . . Our league does not tolerate
any interference in any way with the officials by
the coaches and if we have any difference of

 

opinion we submit the same at the time we make
the ratings on the various officials.”

"| think that | am safe in saying that there
should be a friendlier relationship between the
officials and the coaches. Whether we realize it or
not the actions of we coaches on the bench some-
times come back at us like a boomerang, when we
disagree not only in work but in actions which the
crowd picks up as a spark and sometimes makes it
impossible for an official to call the type of game
that he is really capable of working."

"It seems that we still have coaches that insist on
talking to the officials before the game, between
halves and after the game."

"We have a good many college games at which
certain self-styled supporters of the team create
a great deal of ill-feeling and animosity by booing
officials and razzing the opposing players. | believe
the Coaches and Athletic Directors can do a lot to
eliminate this evil.”’

"The coach on the sideline who is yelping at the
nearest official, making ridiculing motions about
the decisions of the Arbiters, thus inciting his crowd
against the officiating, should remember that he
makes a jackass of himself."