Discussion by Mr. Fay Cont'd.

"In Table II the result of three high school games
are listed. While the distance traveled by high school players
is less than that traveled by college players for a complete
game, it is interesting to note that the distance traveled, per
minute of playins time, is about the seme in both games. In
the collese games indicated in Table I, the distance travelcd,
per minute of playing time, for same 1, 2, and 5 is 501.9,
524.4, and 523.4 respectively. In the high school games listed
in Table II the number of fcet traveled, per minute of playing
tine, is 437.8, 560.3, and 472.4 respectively. The gancs
included in these tables are fairly representative of all james
clocked during the season. One would expect a slightly creater
distance for college players due to the fact that the playing
floor is twenty feet longer, which distance must be traversed
each tine the tean chanzes fron offense to defense.

"In the hish school games the ball changed hands, that,
is, passed from offense to defense, and vice versa, with greater
frequency per unit of playing time than in the college games,
Ball chanzes were 60, 63, and 55 respectively in the high school
games, aS against 59, 74, and 62 in the college games. Since
the high school games were eight minutes shorter than the colleze
games, there were more bell changes per minute in the secondary
school games. This may be one explanation for the fact that high
school players appoar to move faster than colloge players.
Frequent boll changes require quick shifts from offense to :
defense, and this adjustment is made with less running Dy hich
school than by college players, because of the shorter floor on
which high school games are played, The center who takes the
ball off both backboards, for example, would travel twenty fect
farther on each ball chanse in a college game. .

"Since a study whe ynade of distances traversed following
the inclusion of the ten second rule, and before the inclusion
of the rule climinatin: the center jump, it is impossible to
state the relative effects of these two rules upon the increase
in distance traversed by players in college basketball games.
Both have undoubtedly been contributing factors, but to sey which
has had the sreater influence would be, in the opinion of: the writ-
ers, a mere “uess. Both studies of college players were made on
players representing the DePauw University basketball team, which
team was under the direction of the same coach during the course
of both studies. In cenernal, changes in style of play which would
affect the distance traveled by a player have been only those
which were necessitated, or made possible, through the application
of the rules under consideration. Studies of high school games were
conducted in the Greencastle High School gymnasium on players re-
presenting the Greencastle High School team and their opponents.

Concluded on next pase.