HISTORY AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF
THE ASSOCIATION

Founded As An Emergency Organization

Formation of the National Association of
Basketball Coaches of the United States started
as an emergency measure for the presentation
of a united opinion to combat a specific situa-
tion. The crisis arose in the spring of 1928
when the Joint Basketball Rules Committee,
then the central governing authority, announc-
ed without previous warning that it had
adopted a change in the rules which virtually
eliminated the dribble.

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Many of the game’s leading coaches felt
that such a drastic alteration should not have
been made without their knowledge and con-
_Sent; that the change was not only unneces-
ary but actually was detrimental in that it
robbed the offense of one of its most potent
. weapons. Finding that individual protests
were of no avail a group of mid-Western
coaches called a protest, meeting to be held at
Des Moines, Iowa, at the time of the Drake
Relays in May, 1928.

Approximately fifty university, college and
high school coaches attended. Dr. F. C. Allen
of the University of Kansas was elected chair-
man. A resolution which appealed to the rules
committee to reconsider its action was adopted
unanimously. Fearing, however, that the rules
body might consider this vote as not represen-
tative a committee was appointed to collect
opinions from leading coaches in other sec-

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