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Report of Research committee Cont'd.

Basketball is played in our district at the time when
physical reverses are at their lowest and there are many indicat-
ions when an individual should rest. The various systems of the
body may indicate rest before the heart shows signs of cracking.
The muscular system may present cramps, weakness, and lack of co-
ordination. The respiratory system may present shortness of breath,
coughs, and colds in general. The nervous system may show irritab-
ility, lack of desire to play, incoordination, usual lack of co-
operation with associates, sleeplessness, conplaints of tiredness
and delusions of persecution. Digestive system may show loss Ot
appetite, vomiting, and other symptoms associated with that system.

The answer includes a physical checkup by a physician, rest,
and reconditioning before a return to the wars.

The elinination of the center jump possibly may have added
physical demands to the four other players other than the center.
He was the individual deserving of sympathy under the old rules.
The added three or four minutes of play is now added to five
players equally and the burden of the center has been erased. The
body will adjust itself more readily to the change than will the
minds of many individuals.

The game has always put stress and strain on the individual
participants, otherwise it would not have been a game. We become
primitive, breath faster, perspire, heart beats faster, the kidneys
throw out albumen, we become fatigued, new heights or depths are
probed, and we find the thrill of victor or the depression of de-
feat. The next day there is a compensating slowness of breathing
and heart rate, the blood pressure is lower, the kidneys are normal
and our mental prospective comes close to our normal. We should be
little better mentally and physically if we were normal to start.
The myth of the athletic heart has been exploded. Time will tell
us probably that we still have the ability to adapt ourselves to
hard mental and@ physical tests.In the meantime let's check for
sound hearts to start and eliminate possibilities of undiscovered
defects. After the start lets look for some of the carly symptoms
that foretell; in due time, a possible breakdown. The game is
worth the time and consideration given to it. The bad will be
eliminated, the good will stay." Unquote. :

The committee is sorry that it hasn't more to report on this
problem but I am certain that both Mr. Lonborg and Mr. Bunn will
add much of interest in their report.

2, Extension of the playing space under the basket to four fect.
The Northern Division Pacific Coast Conference, and I belicve
several other conferences with which your chairman has Deon in
contact, have been experimenting with this contemplated change for
several scasons. The report on this problem received by this
committee is explained in form of a letter from Mr. Jack Friel,
basketball coach at Washington State College. Quote."The Northern
Division Pacific Coast Conference extended the playing space under
the basket to four feet several years ago and I have never heard
anyone at any time make anything but favorable comments to the
change. Every coach in our division favors the added room and I
am sure that it will never be changed here.