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'Leave. fackboards, Return Center

Jum', Gries Swasey -
‘Durhen, N. H, dan.15,- ile you're ging to, change the rules, put
“back the center: juls and forget the backboard: controversy! . Honry Swasey,
for 1% years lead basketball “coach at’ the Univeral ty, of New. Hompshire,
strongly advocated today,
Hor years champoin of the cmuse fons: players resulting. from ‘the Jjunp,
' Swasey nointed out that: ‘basketball has* A csi mueh of its finesse aad has
‘pecome pure "razzle-dazzle. on
ad f ‘But Gespite ‘his longings for: the onan jump oa ‘the vetoran
mentor agreed that basketbell is a ereat.gane as played to day and that
it should not be changed very racically at, present.

Taking away the vackboards would spoil mony a good playunder the
4 he said, "Tcams would not attermt ‘to work the ball beneath the
hoop for close-in plays. Most of the shorting would be set from out avound
the foul ring, and a lot of the exciting be esketbail underneath the. basket
would be gone from the game %

A creat -erguaent for the ° 08 clebitebeh removal is to eliminate the.
advantage tall boys have in re. rebound Shots; but Swascy laughed
this off.

~ "The little fellows sitet t be able to a set for their shots
before the tall lads wore. in on’ thems - the lanky boys would block out the
little fellows' shots; 1 really don't see how taking away the bacxboards
would. help the little fellow." : |

fa Rad bul Flo *at
DE ess BEING THING

By Gearge Edm ond.

Unanixous Approval wes rot for theomine for the prot nosal from a.
basketvall critic, exnlaincd- here recentiy, that. basketball eliminate
its present ruic which ejects from the sane a pleyer who has accumulated
four’ nersonal Trouls. in

Disamproval comes from a well-known St, Foxit official, who argues
that such a chenge would.result in the very thing basketbail fans wouid
like to see. eliminated - continued: whistle facitEe by the officials.
This official maintains, contrary to the first-quoted critic, that
most nersohal fouls are ‘deliberate. Plavers comsiting ther, he says, know
what they are doing 90 per cent of the time and consider - it vorth the gamble
thet: the "oficial won't see the violation or that it's better to give the
opposition a free throw rather than a field goal.”

f you take awoy the threat of ejection from the gane players ‘viho
es APC. inclined to violate Ph rules will do S9 more peg ever, the official
maintains.

That would bring about a situation ‘in eiiiey the offi cials would
have to call nanny more violations than they do now, with the result that
ee Came, would be slow ed. up and i mach of its sp eres > ann neal lost.

HOOSTER GETS’ TOUGHEST 5 03

Knoxville Tenn., January 22 (AP) Coach John be er, of the University of
Tennessee basketball team, =. he always assis Gilbert Huffman, of
New Castle, Ind., guard and centein, to "the toughest forward on the
omosing teen,"

In nine gomes, Huffuen kes given uw only 2% points and has held
his men without a field gos1 in eig:t of the nine, while himself scor-
ing 63 »oints.