Dre Allen, of Kansas, pointed out that almost everyone forgot that
Oswald Tower was the interpreter of the rules, whereupon Dr. Carlson said
that since it was brought out "there is a rule book, and an official
interpreter whom everybody seems to have forgotten, it will be well to
continue with the Committee on Interpretations and Propos¢d Rule Changes."

  
 
      
   
   
  
    

Herbert W. Read, of Kalamazoo State Teachers College& set the keynote
for the discussion he was to lead, when he outlined the p ace of the gane
and the position of the coache He said that there were , east 30,000
high school teams playing basketball and hundreds of thougands of athletes
participating. Heraised various points, the suggestion ®;:
whether basketball would do best if it were speedier, sh
be considered, do the boys prefer a game of speed to ski
spirit of the game itself. Does the gane enhance loyalt
and school spirit?

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ir. Read said that from his questionnaire, it was fofind the coaches
liked the four-tine outs, and also the new communication Fule.e The
suggestion of a l2~foot radius around the centre circle brought coment
from the floore The suggestion of raising the basket to $2 feet fron the
floor brought nore discussione The question was whether ft tended to aid
or hamper the style of the smaller (or bigger) fellowe Spme declare that
the players were becoming smaller and wiser -— other coaches averred that
they were becoming taller. The suggestion about a smallef backboard was
unfavorably received, in Mr. Read's polle The ten-secon@ rule was uini~
nized in importance.

The zone defense and face guarding brought much dischssion, The
question of elininating them was offered, although many sbw no harn in
the zone defensee lire Read gave his impressions of the ious inter-
pretations of face guarding, as viewed in the East and West, where-upon
Nat Holnan added that despite the criticisn hurled upon the coaches in
the New York City area, the coaches in that vicinity weref most eager to
see a unifornity of interpretation and willing to abide whatever
decision reached by the rules comittee,

_gohn Bunn pointed out four view fron the rule book on block, or
screcning, and then called upon everyone to think seriously on that point
for the neeting on the morrow. He added that, in Stanforf's recent trip
to the East, "three-fourths of the offense had to be disckhrded to oblivi~
ate any officiating difficulty. ‘The officiating was good, commendable, "
he said.

lire Read declared that a re-survey showed that the epaohte were in
favor cf freeing the foul circle fron the foul line out, pnd Oswald Tower
added that the rules committee, in his belicf, would look favorably upon
any suggestion acceptable to the najority of the coaches! association.
Chandler suggested a rule which would allow a tean, foulefl in the closing
ninutes, to have the option of taking the ball out of pounds, rather than
shooting the foul,

 

The talk on the possible elimination of the centre jump had John J.
Gallagher, of Niagara University, say that players and sports writers in
Buffalo, N.Y., found it resembling hockey and unsatisfactbry,. Cy Young,
of Southern California, added that the clinination would tire the players
to the point where substitutions were to be profuse... Mre; Norgrin, who
spoke on how the elimination of the tap was received in his section; Rev.
Coyne, of Columbia Univorsity, Dubuque, Ia., said that the elinination
was whole-heartedly approved in his section; and, Harold Olsen said -that
the players in his gane found they were no nore fatigued with the elinina~
tion, than fornerly.

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