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tators to regard the opposing team players as friendly revals,
who happen to be the guests of the institution, and not as hated
opponents. Making kisconcerting noises when an opposing player is
attempting a free throv and booing an opponent are the principal
faults in unsportsmanlike conduct. It is advisable for coaches to
seek the co-operation of other members of the faculty in helping
promote good sportsmanship among the student body. A brief comment
in a class or group by a teacher or professor, not directly con-
nected with the athletic association, nay help students continue
good sportsmanship within their own school.Conduct at basketball
games, as well as at other athletic activetics, actually is the
school's course in sportsmanship.

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?: Instill in your players that in a competitive snort like
basketball it is necessary for a boy or youns man to frequently
mobilize during the course of a game all the skill, intelligence
and courage that he possesses; to do this when ovposed by competent
opponents endoved with similar ability and purpose; to do this with
a spirit of genuine sportsmanship that will not permit him to stoop
to that which is base and mean in order to secure some advantage
over his opponent.

8. Quite a few natural rival basketball sames among various
school and university teams are not scheduled because the athletic
authovities fecl that the conduct of partisan spectators would con-
stitute such a nuisance, and possibly such a disturbance, that such
sames are not arranged.

9, Emphasize to your players that when any of them descend to
unsportsmanlike conduct or action during the course of a basketball
game that they injure hundreds of other persons other than them-
selves. Each phayer is a representative of his institution. If he
violates the principles of good speortsmanshin he brings dissrece
upon the institution and the entire student body.

10. Basketball is a sport that was orivineted in an educational
institution. Ever since its himble beginning the game has been ad-
ministered princivally by basketball authorities associated with
educational institutions. The popularity cof the game has become
so widespread that it now embraces numerous types of leagues. The
leaders od this latter rroup look to the school and college division
for the sportsmanship traditions of the game. Let us resolve that
we shall sect a good example by regarding it as a duty to teach and
encourage good sportsmanship among our players and the other
members of the student body, but what is equally and perhaps more
important let us regard it as an obligation to practise the ideal
peinciples of good sportsmanship ourselves.

John J. Gallarner, Cnairman,
Coaching Ethics Comnittee,
National Associntion of
Basketball Coaches.