Proceedings - Annual Convention - Cont'd.

(o) Motion that team fowled may have the option of
refusing the free throw and may take the ball
out of bounds at the center line. - Carried.

(op) Remarks by President Edwards

(q) Report of the Nominating Committee, and clection
of officers. :

(r} Remarks by President Chandler

(s) Motion that a rising vote of thanks be extended
the retiring officers.

 

President Edward's address,
April 4, 1938.

For the eleventh consecutive year we are gathered to

discuss the welfare of basketball as it is played in our schools
and to consider ways and means by which we may become still more
valuable to this game. Among us there is hardly one who does not
have several other activitics which occupy much of his time, yet
it must be noted that basketball commands a most important pos-
ition in our lives. In fact, we find that continuous and energetic
e<torts must be made to refain from making the emphasis so strong
that we become boresome to others because of a pronounced tendancy
“ focus our discussions on basketball. To me this desire to color
our whole lives by this game always has appeared remarkable:

Most of us are intimately connected with the sport through
caily eontacts which exist throughout the major portion of the
veer. During the playing scason it is so much a part of us that
ws G@emonstrate its techniques and argue methods with almost anyone
who gives us his attention; we coach squads in intersch ll com-
petition; we teach it to novices in gymnasium classes; we lecture
about it in teachers! training courses; we seck the company of
players, ccaches and officials to exchange ideas about it; we
subscribe for magazines which feature basketball articles, and
then turn to tbe sport prgos “f the daily newspapers to study
game reports, ccx scores and hear storics; we find ourselves
diagramming plays on table linen at meal times or in the pages
of the song beoks at church; then during our sleep we dream of
ways to make free throws 100 percent accurate or concoct psy-
chological approaches which will arouse our pleyers to super-
performance. To cap it all, we conclude an intensive season by
attendance at this convention where nothing else but basketball
is considered.

That we can fecd so fully on this game and seldom become
satiated igs a miracle of human capacity. A story is to1d of a
basketball coach who died and, much to the surprise of nis
opponents, was consigned to eternal heavenly bliss. As he ap-
proached the pearly gates he was thankful that he nad never
coached from the sidelines; taught his players slick ways to
make fouls without detection; nor ridden game officials; that
he had always given correct pre-game statements; and had refused
to alibi defeats. For now he was about to enter a place where
time knew no limits, and where he would be free to use all of his
basketball knowledge and skill. What a reward!