BULLETIN NO 1.

NOVEMBER 10, 1939.

 

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
BASKETBALL COACHES OF THS UNITED STATES

 

 

 

 

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF Page 1.
BASKETBALL COACHES OF THE UNITED STATES
Sherman Hotel - Chicago, I11. ,March 25, 26, 27, 1939.
1. Saturday, March 25th:
9:00 A.M, - Registeration throughout the day.
10:00 A.M. Executive Meeting - Officers and Board of Directors.
2:00 P.M, Pictures:

a. Excerots of College Basketball in Madison Square Garden.
b, Marquette Vs Wisconsin.
c. New York Vs Notre Dane.

Assembly:
a. Election of officers
bd. President's address
c. Reports of Committees.

(1).a. Report of the Tournament and Olymphic Committee.
b. Renort of the Research Committee.

. Report of the Committee on Coaching ethics.

Report of the Visual Interpretation Committee.

Report of the Membership Committee.

Report of the Coumittee on officials.

Report of the Committee on Rules Interpretation

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2. Sunday, March 26th:
2:00 P.M. Pictures:

a. Wisconsin Vs Notre Dame

b. Long Island Vs Loyola - Chamionship ,ame.
c. Rules Committee Feport @

d. Rules Discussion

e. Round table discussion

f, 6:30 P.M, - Banquet.

3. Monday, March 27th:
10:00 A.M. Pictures:

a. Rules rating

bd. Election of officers

c. 8100 P.M. National championship basketball game -
Oregon State Vs Ohio State, at Northwestern University,
Evanston, I11.
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Brief of President _Chandler's Address.

1. Two criticesms of our organization by the Basketball Rule Committee!
a. The coaches are devoting too much emphasis to rules changes.
In answer to this charge Presidont Chandler thought this criticism unjustifiable,
if we, as coaches, do not show a vital interest in the rules, we can expect the
rules to stand still.
b. That we are neglecting other phases of the game, Therfore we ought to
consider such problems as a standardation: .
(1) More uniformed courts, backboards, lighting and equipment.
(2) More uniform elegibility rules.
(3) More uniform interpretation of rules.
(4) Tenure of office.
(5) Onoportunities for more individuals to participate.
(6) Proper regulations and sunervision of tournanents.
(7) Closer medical supervision.
(8) Research.
c. Synortsmanship:
(1) Encourage radio commentators and newspaper writers to curb blasts
on coaches, nlayers and officials.
(2) Encourage basketball education through demonstrations, newsnaver
articles and radio broadcasts.
(3) To cut comments by coeches regerding officials.
(4) To improve behavior of coach and players on bench,
(5) Socialization of players.

2, The nominating committee - A.C. Lonborg, chairman, then brought in
recommendations for the following officers to serve for the
during 1939 - 1940 -

President . ... +. .« Be T. Grover. . Ohio University

First Vice-president . . Nat Holman. . . City College of Mew York
Second Vice-president. . Nels Norgren . . University of Chicago
Third Vice-president . . Everett Dean . . Stanford University
Secretary-Treasurer .. 3. J, Hickok . . Springfield College
Editor. ....... . Frank ¥. Keaney. Rhode Island State College.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

W. S, Chandler - Marquetts Marsh Diebold - Carleton
W. H. Browne - Nebraska Val Lentz - St. Johns.

Respectfully submitted,

A. ©. Lonborg
Chairman.

These recommendations were accepted and passed unanimously.
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REPORT OF THE RULES RECOMMENDATION COMIUITTE:

in preparing this report the Chairman of the Rules
Recommendation Coumittee and the memgers thereof have based their
suggestions on the promise that it is no longer necessary to sound
a clarion for the preservation of he game.

The sustained popularity of besketball in 1938-1939
judged by enthusiasm, publicity, geme ettendan ce and player par-
icipation, is evidence that tre geome is definitely established as
the netion's leeding sport.

The Rules Recommentation Committee, therefore believes
thet no major rulings are necessesy or in demand at the present
time,

Before bringing to your ettention a few minor changes, we
®ish to make e brief resume of rules end epplicetion during the
past season. Spectators and players elike secm to approve of the
present gene. Hard 4unning, one-hend shots, and the "All over the
Court" pley hve been highly developed during the pest season.
INTERPRET. .TIONS

Interpretations involving blocking have eceused no
difficulty this yea™ This is cue either to more uniform inter-
pretetion and ¢pplicetion of the rules, or which is more importance
to the good sportsmanship of coaches. In the recent invitetion
tournament no coach of a participating or defeated teem voiced
anything except approbation of the officietion, With respect to
plocking, offending pleyers no longer "put on the act", or act
astonished when they cause contect or an etiempted screen play.
and a foul is called against them.

CROWD BaEAVIOR

Crowd behevior hes ccuced considerable apprehension in ¢&
Great many parts of the country. The "booing" \irich hes accompenied
a great meny decisions by officials should and must be eliminéted.
To thet objective there should be an ettampt to design uniform
officials! signals so thet spectator, player and cocch will know the
cause or the foul. Meny times the spectator oes not know what foul
has been called, and "boos" what he consicers to be a misteKe,
Coaches cen aid materially with this question by their own — ‘evior
on the bench, end by aggres-ive methods in atcecking the evil through
the medium € the school pepers and their sports relly talks.

TRANSPORTING OF OFFICIALS

For the tirst time during the past year there was a
definite trend toward elimMation oftrensported officials. Hereto-
fore it has been customery for some cosches to bring én ofificia: -
from their particular section of the country when they pleyed inter-
sectional gemes. Uniform interpretetions have mede this ebsolutely
unnecesscry.
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TH? BALL oe

 

Colle~cs have quite gonerally preforred to play with the
old tyne of basketball. No doubt it would be wise to agree upon a

uniform ball, to eliminate the different types now so widely ad~
vertised,

PHYSICgL SET-UP

It is bolieved the coaches! association should,make a re-
commendation concerning baskets (especially with resnect to the
various types of rims nov uscd) and nets. Naturally, the ¢lass
backboard is not important. Tho present size scorms to be por etty
generally accepted as being correct, However, there have been sone
suggestions that the basket might be reised another six inches on
the board, to alloy for more "benking" snacc.

GOAL TENDING

De. Forrest Allon has beon »romoting the twelve foot
baslot for some time because of the ability of some tall pleyers to
deflect the flicht of the ball,:so that a basket from the field could
not be scored, Tyo majority of the members of tho committee did not
fovor elevetion of the basket. Most of thom arc in accord vith the
rule which vill be proposed under Rocommucendations.

RE COMMNDATIONS

 

1. Gauic to consist of four reriods instead of two, following
the hizh school precodcnt.

Tho couaittes is in favor of playing the «ame in four
reriods of ton ssinutes cach, Elivination of the conter jump has
increased tho ental ond nhysical fatigue of tne »laycrs. In the
past yeor the adcition of tho oxtra tirc out vas of considcrabdle
assistence, Hovover, not all tons usod thoir quota of timo outs,
and it is tho bolic? of the committee that this forced intermission
of tro minutos duration during cach half vould provide relaxation
for spectators, players, md in a lightor vein, coaches,

©, Intentional Foul. Dissatisfaction has voeon expressed
with resvect to the present nonrlt; fot the intentional foul.
Durin; tho last 4,A.U. tournament in Denver, five intontional fouls
vore made by one of the temms durin; the last tvo » inutes of olay,
in an attonmt to secure possession ¢& the ball and come from behind
to win. Tho cormitteo believes that an intentional foul should be
ponalized by one frec throw, time to be out during the nlay, and the
ball to be awardod the offended team in their front court, folloving
the foul whether made of not. (Or option of doclining foul)

3. Three Sccond Rule. It is the cenerrl concensus of
all the committee that the three second ruling sho 1d anply only
oftcr o player in the land. or free throw circle has the ball in
his possession,
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4. Goal Tending. It is believed that goal tending
would be eliminated if the team whose player touched th® ball in
its downward flight following a shot,before the ball has hit the
backboard or the rim of the basket, be penalized by awarding the goal
to the opposing team.

5. Uniform Signals for Officials. Uniform signals for
officials would assist spectators, scorers, players and coaches in
recognizing the cause of the foul. This would eliminate considerable
"crabbing" by the players, and provide information for the spectators
which would add to their enjoyment of the game, and possibly aid in
eliminating "booing".

6. Ten Second Rule. The committee that the ten second
Rule has lost its importance in present day basketball,
because of the aggressive styles of defense now employed. Teams
who desireto stall can do so in the front courts as effectively as
formerly in the back court. The committee realizes it would be
aifficult to eliminate this rule, but fcels it is a ruling that
modern basketball has outgrown. It has been suggested that some
solution might be found in employment of the rule duringthe last
five minutes of the game only.

s
ie Kee Re ee

The above may not be a large contribution,as compared
to the many changes proposed in previous years. However, we
shoulda like to accede to the demand by coaches from all parts of the
country that we "leave tho rules alone and catch up to the
new game".

Respectfully submitted,
CLAIR F. BEE
Chairman
ROTOR? OF THE VISUALIZA ION CO:MITTUE Page 6,

The chief purnose of the Visualization Comuittec is to
bring before the coaches of our association, through the medium of the
motion picturo, a detailed analysis of the various styles of
offonsive and defensive technique used by leading authorities in
the snort togethor with any definite problems arising in the sport
throughout the playing season, It is omtremcly gratifying to
report that fow corplaints reached tho attention of the mombers of
our committee with the nossible exception of the under-tho-baskct
dofensive tactics of Mike Novak, center man on the Loyola University
varsity basketball team, Mr. Clair Bee, chairman of our rules
comukttce, ond our cormittce vere ready to prepare a film to clari v
any such probloms. However, in view of tho fact, that our convention
date came so soon after the final invitational tournament held in
Madison Square Garden the best we covld do to cooperate with hin was
to solicit the cooperation of Mr, Ned Irish, the basketball director
of Madison Square Garden to take a nhotogranh of the final game,
Fortunately Mike Novak played in tho final game between Loyola and
L, I. U. and we were in a position to record his movements in this
contest. It is only fitting at this time, that the chairman of the
visualization comuittee request the President of our organization
that he writo a letter of thanks to Mr, Irish for the trouble and
exnoense he has gone to in preparing this film, Also, Mr. Leslie
Winik of N. Y. U. has propnred a film ontitled "COLLEGE BASKETBALL 1939"
showing excerpts of a numbor of college games played in Madison Square Garden *
this winter, This picturc, tho final game of the invitational
tournament, and othors brought here by our coimitte members
will round out on interesting motion picture program, We
are quite certain thet you will find them ontertoining, educational
anc instructive,

I should also like to report at this time the business
trensactions our association had with the Agfa Ansco Film Corporation
of Now York City with roegerd to the motion picture ontitled "College
Basketball" they put out for us last seeson, You will rocall that
this picture was produced » s a result of the many pictures sent to
me froi our follow coaches throughout the country and thon assemblea
into one largo picture of 1400 fect, being sold at a net price of
$57.50 destination, The sales on this picture were rather dis-
apnointing and for thet reason, the committee decided to discontinuc
this project for the time being, However, a detailed revort of the
various sales made is attached herevith, As chicf distributors of
this victurc our association was entitled to the maximum discount of
33 1/3% A check in tho amount of $93.31 covers the Film Corporations
indcbtedness to us, after deducting postage and mimeographing costs,

Last, if I had the time, I would be more critical thm I
feel at liberty to be, in commenting upon the appalling obtuscness
mony teachers have toward the use of visual aids. In «© changing
game which moves with ever accelerated temo, coaches, players,
officials and spectators alike con lonrn the various techniques
employed by our leaders in the ficld toe degree they could nover
experionce through textbooks alone, With few exccptions, every tean
thet came to Madison Square Garden to participate in the schedule had
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their cones recorded, Athletics directors have annroved of such -

expenditures reco-nizing their volue as teachin: aids.

Tho coumittce sinccrely hopes that teachers of the gnme
are mking every effort not only to take pictures of their ganes but slso
obtaining the proper cquinucnt vhich vill_cnable thom to build
a snorts library in thoir chosen snort, This past season, to be
more specific, wo at City Colleze purchased a dirst class projector
md sercen. This being: the oxclusive property of the Physical
Education Dopartment and used for the showing of pictures in the ficld
of snorts and personal hy:ione lectures, To say thet visual aids have
holped immeasurably in getting our playcrs to SEE the positive ond
nog-tive apnroach to a team situation is to put it to you rather
mildly. Definite arrangzemonts have been made at the end of various
practice sessions to screen actual gmc pictures vhero emphasis has
been placed on offensive and defensive technique. Some playcrs
develop faster through practical demonstration, Others througn
ouditory and visual aids, Ht is diffialt to dcotermine thich one
is more effective,

Many probloms still remain betvcon tho coach and his
ercotest realization of tho nossibilitics of the motion pnicturo for
the general advancoment of th some,

1. Tho searcity of film metorials for instructional
ournoses. For producers hrve bothercd to focus on the spurts markot
and as a result tho films availablo do not moet the exactin, domends
of the coachin,: profession.

2, the lrck of a vroner snorts Cistribution sct up.
MMs + : re a ae - 2
This pro-lom may ve solved by on associotion of schcol snorts fil
libraries, nat loast tho sponsors hone thet the vroblom vill be uct.

3, Tho nroblen of prover eveluction of prosent basketbell
material, This nroblom may be partieclly mot by . school or Conches
Association snorts library, but the probler is 2 large one and one
which should be met both individually ond collectively for the mmy
conches vho are constontly seckin> materinl in the ficld for instruct-
ional vurmosces.

4, The lack of adaqunite projection cquipment. While there
hes been a creat incronse in the past tvo or throc years in the use
of projection cquipont in schools, far too many schools remain with
out facilities, It is honed thet educators and especially those in
tho fiold of Physicel Educction covering varsit: ond intracural svorts
prograas will soon reelize with unanimity the immortaace of visual
aids. loo many of our schools are livin: in the stage conch or magic
lantern days of projection cquiniacnt, There scoms to bo 1 definite
rolationshin betveon the availnoility of sood basketball fils for
our teachers of the sport’ and tho availability of cquipmont., ach is
dependent unon the other for the nrover measure of oducational and
social usefulness. Loaders in the ficld of cducntion, leaders in the
field of snort, lenders in tho nrofession:l filu industry should
vielcome now iders ond suggestions whereby the product, our anne of
basketball, can vc improved and large audience neods at least be
partially sotisficd,

Resnectfully suomitted,
RAT HOLMAN

Collego City of Nov York
Chair
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON OFFICIALS Page 8.

Your Committee on Officials has tried to Giscover where-
in officiating , as a whole, can be improved and has made a few
Recommendations which we think if followed witl eventually improve
the caliber of officiating.

It seems that the big complaint from the spectators today
ig that when the whistle is blown they can't tell from the
actions of the official just what infraction has been called.

In the letter sent out some time ago about setting up a
system of signals to be used by officials we were not criticiz-
ing any one official but the method of ealling the foul. We think,
tha’ if a system of signals could be worked out, that cvuld be
universally adopted, that the spectators would be better satified.
At least, this has beon. proven in football

The Officials Committee would like to suggest that our
Association recommmed that the Rules Committce work out a set of
signals that can be universally used.

We have a few suggestions in addition to this. We would
like to make another suggestion in regard to officials! fees. We
suggest that conferences have a rule, that the regular conference
fee be a maximum fec, that can be paid by any member of that par-
ticular conference. In other words, in non-conference games officials
can be paid as much but not more than the fees paid for a conference
game.

In some conferences this year the officials have  Jeen
working as teams, and from reports, this his been quite sucessful.
We recommend that more conferences try this system noxt year.

The last suggestion is that whenever possible officials
working in a particular conference have a school in the early part
of the season where they actually officiate under supervision and
receive criticism for their work.

Respectfully submitted,
0. B. COWLES
Cnairman
REPORT OF (HE MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Page 9

 

The membership committee is pleased to report a con-
siderable measure of success in adding new members to the Association.
Every college coach in the country has been contacted end many of
the men in secondary schools, In the Fourth District alone over
two hundred high school coaches were given information about and an
opportunity to Join the Association. Over a thousand letters were
sent out by Committee members the country over urging the advantages
of our banding together to make basketball a better game and to keep
it in the hands of those most interested.

The delay in deciding the convention dates handicapped us
somewhat in the final drive for membershin and for attendance at this
convention, but registrations indicate that we are to have one of the
largest conventions to date.

Experience shows that personal contacts are the primary
influences in interesting coaches to join associations and attend
conventions. Hence andy enthusiastic menber becomes a salesman for
the organization.

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-The two best promotional times are just as the season
starts when everycoach is interested in bulletins and information.
Then at the season's end when they like to get together ad pool
their experiences and plan for the future.

From the membership standpoint the cooperation of every
coach is needed to hely make the bulletin a real news md educational
agency. Our editor needs cooperation from every section in order to
maxe the Bulletin indesrensable to the Basketball Fraterni’y.

In every section, league, conference and college, our
members should talk up the value of coonerative effort in building
the future of our great game.

Two sections have this year more than doubled their member-
ship and this has been vartly due to the personal enthusiasm of those
in the area already members,

The change in dues from straight $5.00 to $2.00 for those
not able to attend the convention has helped keep our membership more
stable. Formerly too often we found memberships being allowed to
lapse where the members could not attent 6he convenvion.

More definite information concerning membershinv costs and
privileges needs to be incorporated in next year's promotional
literature.

The number of secondary school members is increasing and
this represents a fine trend.
To those others who helped build up our waibershin and 7s 10.

attendance the committee extends hearty thanks. To the members of
my committee I amparticularly in debt. They were consistently
PUshing membership and urging the value of coorer ative effort.

Undoubtedly the optortunity to see such fine basketball
tournaments as are being conducted in Chicago this week has aided
in making this gathering one of the largest in the history of our
Association. Barlier knowledge concerning these activities would have
borne fruit in still larger attendance,

We hope to ive to the editor of the Bulletin for his first
issue an analysis of our membership in terms of location and contin~
vity which will help in the promotional efforts of the new committee.

Respectfully submitted,

EDWARD J HICKOX
Chairman.
NEWS OF CONVENEION_ Page 11.
1. Mr. Hickox stated that according to our constitution, membership
for all classes shall be two dollars. Anyone belonging to the organization,
excent the honorary members, like the newspaper men and some others, is charged
two dollars. In case of attendance at the convention, those neople who, by the
constitution, are elegible for active membership, are charged an additional three
dollars. That is for convention fee. If you had stayed at home, your pill would
have been two dollars for membership. When you come here, rou paid three dollars
for the opportunity to talk and vote.

2. Mr. RF, Williams, University of Iowa gave a short report as chairman
of the Press committee. He said "Upon my appointment a year ago I contacted the
various press associations, the International News Service, Associated Press and
tho United Press and they were very glad to coonerate with the Press Committee
throughout the year. Immediately following that I wrote a number of letters to
coaches throughout the country asking them to submit material to be oublished,
and the resnonse was not very good. I received very few articles from the coaches,
ut those I did receive I submitted to these different press associations, and
Some of these were printed. You fellows have read the newspaoers and know what
was nrinted about basketball this year.

%, Mr. George Edwards, University of Missouri had printed the new constitut-
ion which is included with this bulletin, George always does a swell job and all
of us appreciate his efforts for the benefit of basketoall.

4, Mr, Edvards explained that in this new printed constitution , Article 3,
dealing with membership, Section 2 reads as follows " Coaches from isntitvtions
whict: offer a four year Baecalaureate degree and who are actively cxerged in the
profesional basketball coaching, shall be elegible for active memb-: ship’ iz
you analyze that you will see that "ec changed only the first part of the senteuce,
making it read so that coaches in schools not allied with the Natioral co] legiate
may become active members in our association. There is no difference in fces, as
explained to you by Mr, Hickox, This recommendat’.on wae passed, Mr, Edwarcs hat
the help of Ed Hickox, Nat Holman in offering this substituto.

5, Discussions on the Tournament Committee reporv:

a, Mr. Bruce Dake, University of Uklahoma, brovght ux the time missed in
college by the players. He suggested that the regional tournament be brought
closer to the finals, so as to eliminate a lot of travel for poth teams.

b. Mr. Bunn stated the final game vould be held March 30, 1940 with the
final game in Chicago or Kansas City. Tho place of the western and eastern tourn-
amenvts had not been set.

c, Mr, Allen mentioned that in the tournaments if the N.C.A.A. got twenty
per ent, the Olympic fund got twenty ver cent, the coaches got five por cent,
that would be forty-five per cent; then the fifty-five per cent would be split
equally _etween the two winning teams. If in a regional play-off, after those
percentages were deducted, the net would be divided, and the same in the play-off
in the district. If four teams sere in the district the Nationai Collegiate
would get twenty per cent, and each of those cometing teams would receivo twenty
percent.

d. Mr. Edwards asked why not have four teams in the final to create
interest.
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News cont'd, Page

6, It was moved by George Zdwards, and seconded by Val Lentz, that the
incoming President and Board of Exceutives make application for affliation with
the N,C,A.A. - Carried unanimosily

7”, Discussion on Rules committee report - Clair Bee - Chairman.

a. Game to consist of four ten minute periods. No discussion.
Mr. Read recommended game in two halves - Passcd.,

b. The Intentional Foul with a few minutes to nlay - Much discussion by
Bee, Norgren, Drake, Edwards, Keogan, Olsen, Bunn, Holman; Pres. Chandler, Stays
in book at present - Motion lost.

Motion by Val Lentz that the team be given an option on any foul, personal foul,
against the team committing the foul, and in case a basket is made, the basket
should count, and the option to take place theron, the ball to be given to th
offending team, out of bounds. Mr. Hanson scconded this _otion. Discussion by
Lentz, Bee, Edxards, Road, Ferguson - Mr. Bunn suggested that the captain decide
whether he wants the free throw or not. Mr. Lentz accented this - Motion pus to a
vote and carried, More discussion on two personal fouls and in case of a tno free
throws the captain can shoot one and decline the other - Passed unaninously.

c. The three second rule should apvly only after a player, in the froe
throw circle, has the ball in his possession, and not before - Discussion by
Cobalan - Passed unanimously.

d. Goal tending _ Discussion by Sabo, Bee, Holmen, Drake as regards big
Novack of Loyola knocking ball down about to hit basket. Also by Sam Barry who,
thinks game needs big men, Motion withdram,.

e. Ten second rule. No discussion - Left as is in book - Carried.

ft, Signals for officials - Left to the secrotary.

g, Retommerdatior. by Val Lentz that we go on record as ~ecommonding to the
rules committoe the standardization of ball, baskets and ,acicbourds. /. Be.
suggesv2d nets and that was put into the motion - Discussion by Edimmucon, audwards ,
bee, Norgren, Read; Holman - Motion seconded by Hanson. Mr. Bunn asked about the
net which was rather specific he said - Motion carried, 7

h, Four foot extension. Moved by Edwards taat we adopt the four foo~
extension. Drake seconded the motion. Remarks by horgren, Edrards, Lentz, Tvaks.
Bee - Motion carried,

8, Mr. Burnett the Manager of the Sherman Hotel, presented the president
of our association Mr, Chandler with a gavel, We Lope Chandlei will find several
uses for it around his home,

9, Mr. Bee suggested that wo send some exnression of condolence from this
group to the family of Mr. Usilton, deceased coach of Temple U,iversity - Fassed.,

10. Mr. Chandler then passed over the presidency to Mr. Grover anc the lativer
expressed his annreciation of the honor,
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News Cont'd.

Mr. George Evans, DeKalb Teachers College did a fine job in his financial
arrangement of the display of the sporting goods at our convention. He made an
agreement with the Secretary of the Manufactures association to pandle this
snorting goods display. He charged these companies cach fifty dollars for a
booth, Five coumanies displayed thcir wares. He arranged with the Association
to split fifty-fifty on the total income and he would pay the exnenses out of
his fifty per cent so we received ¢195,00 and added to our treasury. Mr. Zvans
urged all present to talk to the snorting goods men and the coaches interested,
the exchequer would be yncreased next year.

NOTE;

The renort of the Rules Recommendation Committe ond their discussion
are reninted in this bulletin, since all members scem to be interested in this
discussion,

Naismith's original basketball was played before the big game (Oregon State
Vs Ohio State for the N.C.A,A. Basketball Championship.) Twelve players on each
side - whites and nurnles, Then the players were cut to nine and finally five.
Official threw ball uw from the side. The twelve men on a side played five
minutes, whites winning 4 - 0, and only two personal fouls were called although
it was a mad scramble,

Nine men played five minutes and the score was vhites 9 - purnle O. Your
purple baskets went in and then came ut, What a kick woule go up now.

The game concluded with five men on a team,

As a novelty the game was fine, for anyone could sce that twelve and then
nine players were too many on the floor, ,

‘NOTES ON OREGON - OHIO STATE GAME.

1. Oregon was a big team, the guards peing the smallest players.

2. Oregon used a fast dribble with its two small guards Cant. Robert Anst
and Wally Johansen dribbling through the entire Ohio team with great speed, sxill
and agility.

%, Ohio used a wan to man defense - Oregon a kind of shifting zone.

-4, The two Oregon guards were brilliant floor rorkers and set up many plays.

5. Dick Gale and Vintersute of Oregon were big boys and they could pass
very good,

6, Ohio State could not seem to penetrate a zone defense and therefcre had
to shoot long.

7, Jim Hill, leading scorer of the Big Ten, made five baskets. Three of
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8. Ohio State started the second half with a bang and with two baskets by
Hill came to within one point of Oregon, but Wintermute, Gale, Anet and Dick
shot four baskets very quickly nutting the score 29 - 20.

9, Both teams passed wildly at times, but the passes were hurried.

10, About 200 Basketball Coaches attended the game and were pleased with
the reception given at Northwestern.

ll. Nels Nordgren did a fine job in piloting the out-of-toym coaches to
the game,

12, Final score Oregon State 46 - Ohio State 24,
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EDITOR---------- Frank W, Keaney, R. I, State College, Kingston, R, I,

 

~~~ “Whe Hditor will be very eager to vrint all material thet will be of in-
terest to college and high school coaches all over the country, and especially
such contributions which will improve the game, If, for any reason, any sec-
tion of the country has been offended because of the absence of copy relative
to basketball in that sector, it is because no material was submitted,

EDITOR'S COMMENTS

There is absolutely nothing wrong with basketball ---- contrary to what
some would want us to believe, The rules need no change; the attendance is in-
creasing everywhere, More boys are playins the game .... Medison Square Garden
has averaged 16,000 for its first several double headers ... Butler Field House,
in Indianapolis, had-9000 at a recent contest ... Dave McMillan says that in by-
fone days the officials were homers, that there were no rules ~ only home rules;
that in 18 games only one foul was called, and that for kicking the ball; that,
in one game his Minnesota team played in this year, a substitute to be recog-
nized by the scorer had to have his sweat suit removed; that, as long as offici-
als are honest and consistent, it is satisfactory to him,

In the Big Ten, the officials receive $50 ver game and liberal expen-
ses ... In New England, the officials receive $12 per game and 12¢ per mile, one
way ... It seems from this comparison that officials in the Northeastern States
should receive more money ... Buster Brannon says that football in Texas hurts
basket ball ..,. That basketball in the southwest is increasing all around and
that in the North the officiating is looser than in the South,,,

Dr, Allen of Kansas says that he and George Hdwards, of Missouri, ch-
ecked their freshman class and found everyone to have played basketball at some
time... Why should we want a perfect ball, says Dr. Allen? A baseball is not
perfect; therefore, why use the so-called rubber ball? Dr, Allen wonders whether
we, as coaches, appreciate what St, John and Tower have done for basketball ...
Dr, Allen says that the rectangular board was first used to keep spectators away,
rather than to help players and that the néw fan-shape backboard helps spectators
see the game,,,

Iba of Oklahoma A, & M, says that 40% of his offense was out because of
Eastern interpretation of rules .... The “est was amazed when the "Phillips Oil-
ers" were held to 30 points in Madison Square Garden, since their rooters averred
that they couldn't be held to less than 60 points per game ... Paul Mooney of
Columbus says that we need a Judge Landis for our officiating troubles ... Toby,
the old New York official, says that no one ever told the officials what to do on
the floor ... Those officials at the Madison Square Garden "clinic" gave very fi-
ne interpretations of the various troublesome rules ... Your Editor cannot see
any difference with officiating in any parts of the country, judging from games
he's seen ,.. New York University has a great team and no wonder --- Cann smokes
a big "stoogie" at all times .., Against Minnesota, Auerbach and Kaplowich were
two great guards and those forwards, Stevens and Sazar, can play on most army team
-e- Cohalan certainly has a scrappy team at Manhattan ... In their game against
Illinois, they lacked the height but not the courage and fight ..,Santa Clara is
@ well rounded team with fine team-work ... It will take a great team to beat
Santa Clara ,.. Minnesota will be no set-up for any of the BIG TEN teams anf they
should finish in the first four ... In Carlson, they have a great shooter, passer
and dribbler ... Engleman of the University of Kansas is a fine player and his 1-
hand shots are hard to stop ... Clair Bee is #ill the 014 penver box, although he
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lost his appendix, Clair likes Kinney of Rice .., Nat Holman is a past master in
teaching the art of passing ... How N, Y. U, can take the ball off both boards!

Why do we say that a set-shot basket is a cheap basket? Is this nota
skillful play? The different methods of coaching defense and offense make this
game of basketball very interesting ... Williams, of Stanford, must be quite a
forward and Dandsus of the same team must be a great guard ... Joe Lovchich, of
St, John's, certainly loves his boys and they think a lot of him, Coach Kelleher
of Fordham did a great job in winning from Kansas ,,, His team looked swell with
great passing and shooting .. Illinois has a fine team and it should be right up
there in the BIG TEN, They are flawless in foul shooting with 18 straight, for
a new Garden record ... Ned Irish is a busy man at all games, vractices and cli-
nics, ready and willing to take csre of all problems and what a wonderful job
he does}! Pat Kennedy is a colorful official and very individual ...Speaking of
fine forwards, how about McCreery of Indiana? How about Menke of Indiena and
Kenney of St, Joseph's? University of Maine has the finest basketball arens in
all New England ... Coaches of college teams who have sons on their own teams are
Chandler of Marquette; Phog Allen, of Kansas; of Wooster; and Keaney
of Rhode Island ,, Chandler calls it a headache...

Two coaches want to know why the long pass is not used more in basket-
ball, Answer: it is the one of the most difficult passes to make, It is throm
wild too often and is easy to intercept,

The best defensive team seen by us in years was Stanford, under John
Bunn ... Oklahoma A, & M, had a fine defensive team this year ... Angelo Iwiset-
ti's No, 7 jersey shall never be issued again, We all are glad to notice that
George Keogan is back with his team .,. One "Hoosier Hawk" says that any coach
would have heart failure without a first class center, no replacements at guard
who can control the backboards,

BASKETBALL STAR SAVES TWO FROM DROWNING

William Harrison, a forward on the basketball tesm of Villa Grove, I11.,
high school, isn't the team's most brilliant player,

He doesn't have the flair for high scoring honors, He's just the vlodd-
ing type, the never-say-die kind who sticks with the ship even when the water
is over the deck, In short, he's an athlete with plenty of heart,

His team was ready to play Bement, ina conference game, and William
was hurrying home for a light supper when he saw two little fellows on the
railroad reservoir ice, One broke through and the other tried to save him,
William hurried to the spot and threw one lad on the short and plunged in for
the one who was sinking, The water was very deep and William's clothes were
heavy. But he got the drowning boy out and after warming up at home went on
to help his team beat Bement, The little fellows, not William, reported the
near-tragedy,

"TRON MAN" CAGERS BEAT PHILLIPS

LITTLE ROCK, Dec, 21, AP -— An "iron man" quintet from the University of
Arkansas, playing without substitutions, smashed the powerful Phillips "66" Oi-
lers from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, national AAU champions, 38 to 24, here to-
night to keep its unbeaten record perfect,

 

 
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SHOOTIN! 'EM and STOPPIN! 'EM
‘INDIANAPOLIS NEWS,--The Big Ten Becomes Normal,

As long as Indiana and Purdue win, basketball in the Big Ten is pretty nor-
mal and normally pretty interesting, Rarely does Indiana or Purdue turn in an
ordinary performance, If they lose, it's an upset. If they barely win, it's us-
ually a breath-taker, And in providing something akin to a deluge the game isn't
simply a runaway--it has a touch that sets it apart.

I presume Indiana's punitive expedition into the Champaign sector Saturday
night might have been just another Hoosier team coming along to straighten out
that matter of Purdue's loss to Illinois Monday night, but it wasn't. It was hst
plain Menke business with a Will to win,

Doug Mills, coach at Illinois and the Dick Metz of the Big Ten coaching bri-
gade, extended a firm hand in greeting Branch McCracken Saturday night, and more
than 7,000 fans jammed the Illinois sym, Without benefit of backboards Bill Menke
put away eleven field goals in fifteen shots and added two of three free throws
to provide just half the Indiana total of 48 points. Illinois came along with 38
but no one paid much attention to that. Every one was watching the Menke  busi-
ness, which is produced with a strong right arm and a gentle push, a firm flip,
a brisk whip or a delicate lay-in,

Standing on the steps leading up from the dressing room after the game Branch
McCracken encountered some of the visiting reporters, While shaking hands with
these gentlemen he was asking a question and passing out some free information,
"Are you coming down Monday night?" -- was the question -- "Boy, those Wildcats -
are really tough, and that Clawson, whew--he's big and he knows how to handle him
self--better come down," Mr. Clawson will be Mr, Menke's policeman tonight. That
alone should pack ‘em in,

Down the hall a piece Bob Zuppke was visiting with a few friends, Zuppke wa
a member of Shootin! 'Em's Wonder Five this year, "Now, that's the kind of bas-
ketball we used to play," said Zup. "Why, when I tried to tell 'em around here
many, many years ago -- you know I coached basketball around here, after a fash-
ion, for eight years -- when I showed that one-hand shot they gave me the berries
They thought I was crazy." And then Zup branched off into football with dack Ryan
and Dick Gordon, of the Chicago Daily News, so we moved on, Ryan did say it was
a shame Menke had to play with a broken right hand, and that this mst have been
a tremendous handicap, Bill did have his shooting hand taped, and we confided to
Mr, Ryan that there's a secret about that, too. Mr. Ryan then put that all-know-
ing expression on his face, so we gave up,

The Indiana boys were around shaking hands with their folks--a lot of parents
were around--and the big crowd gradually moved over to the ice rink, where Minne-
sota was playing Illinois the second game of week-end series, Zup's talk about
one-handed shooting came up again, and Vic Rensberger contributed some facts on
the case, In this same at Champaign Illinois took 44-one-handed shots and 27 two
handed shots, Four one-handers and eight two-handers went in, Indiana took 32
one-handed shots, and 13 of these went in, They took 24 two-handers and only six
of these were good, Now this Indiana one-handed shooting, of course, was domi-
nated by Bill Menke's eleven successful attempts, Bill throws the ball into the

hoop. He rarely uses the backboard. His shots are hard to step. He may miss it
but it will be extremely difficult for any one to keep him from taking them, He
is as definitely a righthander as was Christy Mathewson, His fancy pivoting, how-
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Shootin! 'Em and Stoppvin!' 'Em (contimed from p. 4. )

ever, is enough to make a guard think he is shooting with any one of a half-dozen
hands, If Clawson guards him tonight, Bill will sive up much weight, And Clawson
by the way, was Northwestern's high-point man in that 46-to-40 loss to Ohio State,

Illinois was the only home team that lost Saturday nicht, This was a game
of fouls, too, and Indiana was penalized twenty-two times, Illinois, sixteen,---
Zimmer and Armstrong had three versonals each after seven mimtes, A minute later
Sachs, of Illinois, had three. Indiana's reserve strength was much superior to
Tllinois's,

Piggy Lambert used seven little Piggies to defeat Michigan's Mandler and Co.
This was a 41-to-40 affair, tied at the half at 18 points, In the end each team
had sixteen field goals, Don Blanken being a point ahead of Mandler with three
buckets and eight free ones, Mandler hit six times from the field, They called
sixteen personals on Michigan, twelve on Purdue. Sofiak and Brogan with 4 field
goals each were Mandler's first assistants,

Tonight Pigey's Boys are up in Wisconsin, The Badgers broke Iowa's  seven-
game streak with a 49-to-35 triumph in Madison. A young man named Englund, labd-
ed a threat long before the season started, lived up to press notices. He seored
eight times from the field and twice from the foul line, He also fouled out of
the game, which undoubtedly held down his offense to some extent. He may have
been guarded a little closer than Menke was in Champaign, too. Menke was fouled
only twice, Aman who scores as much as Bill did isn't too carefully guarded, but
to keep him from hitting it may be necessary to foul him when he's shooting and
he's worse than Menke business at the free throw line,

Purdue scoring is scattered all around, and it will be more so as the season
progresses, Forrest Sprowl got four buckets; Igney, three; Blanken, three; Blem-
ker, three; Caress, two; and Hoffman, one in the Michigan game, Over at Illinois
they said Purdue couldn't stand. the second-half pace set by the Millsmen, so it
may be that Pigey hasn't been bearing down too mch too early. Now that Wiscon-
sin has created a stir by defeating Iowa, tonight's game becomes more important,

@ a @ ‘?

SPOTS From Coach McCracken's Indiana

The Indiana High School Athletic Association will print for sale -- 18,883
tickets for the finals of the state basketball tourney, The tickets sell for --
$1.25, and the IHSAA could dispose of perhaps 50,000 if it had the capacity at the
Butler University fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana,

Indiana's 1940 high school basketball all-staters are well divided among
state colleges, Allen Menke, brother of Bill and Bob Menke, Indiana seniors this
year, and James Laughner, of Frankfort, are at Purdue University; William Pearcy,
of Martinsville, is at Indiana State Teachers College, Terre Haute, where his bro-
ther George is a regular forward; and Roy Kilby, of Burris, Muncie, and Ralph Ham-
ilton, South Side, Fort Wayne, are at Indiana University,

Coach Lou Birkett's Hammond Tech team, winner of the 1940 Indiana state high
school championship, is undefeated at the halfway mark in the 1941 season, With
the entire championship squad back. Tech is again the favorite,

 

 
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OKLAHOMA A,& M OOACH OFFERS FOOD FOR THOUGHT
By Joseph M, Sheehan

NEW YORK TIMES, Dec, 17, 1940.....

Basketball's oratorical season opened with a flourish -~ and on an entirely
new note -= at the initial speech-making session of the Metropolitan Basketball
Writers at the Hotel Iincoln yesterday, The local coaches eschewed pleasantries
and dispensed solid information for once, while a visitor, Henry Iba, of Oklaho-
ma A, and M, suvplied fireworks with a novel twist,

With refreshing frankness, the man whose team took the measure of City
College's touted quintet last Saturday night told the scribes and his conferes
that the men who teach basketball throughout the country were placing the future
of the sport in jeovardy by unreasonable and uncalled-for "beefing" following a
defeat,

"Basketball is too fine a game to be ruined by insignificant alibies,"
Tba declared, "Too often a losing coach places the blame on traveling condi-
‘tions, smoke-filled arenas, sectional rules interpretations, officiating and
what-not. We coaches should take hold of ourselves, concentrate on teaching
what we know to our boys and forget about the alibies, They mean nothing and
are certain to hurt the game,"

If Iba had any one in particular in mind, he kept his thoughts well guar-
ded, However, there is much to his thesis, At the same time the mentor of the
Aggies emphasized the increasing difficulties of coaching on the major circuit,
"We are up against the same problem as the football coaches had to face four
years ago when the five-man defensive line came into general use," Iba said,

"We've run into seven different defenses in the last two years," he con-
tinued, "They're #11 variations of the zone and man-to-man, but each has to be
met by different offensive tactics, It's getting so that basketball is the hard
est course a boy takes in college and a coach has to devote more time to mapping
a practice than a professor does in planning a lecture,"

These last remarks by Iba agreed perfectly with an independent contribu-
tion, received by this devartment in yesterday's mail and herewith acknowledged,
entitled "A Selected Bibliography on Basketball", compiled by Nat Holman, Assis-
tant Professor, Department of Hygiene and Director of Basketball, the City dol-
lege of New York,"

This formidable mimeographed brochure, organized into twenty chapters
treating on different phases of the game, presents a complete list of reference
works on basketball--including books, magazine and newspaper articles, doctors!
dissertations and motion picture films--numbering 379 in all,

EASTERN COLLEGE FIVES TO VIE FOR SILVER CUP

PHILADELPHIA, DEC, 17, AP--A silver cup has been presented to the Eastern
Intercollegiate League as a trophy for the league championship, a committee of
the Class of '28 of the University of Pennsylvania announced tonight,

The cup is in memory of the late Fugene J, Connell, who captained the 1928

Red and Blue championship quintet,
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DAVE WALSH GRADUALLY RETIRING
By Everett B, Morris

NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE, Jan, 3, 1941----

Davis H, (Dave, to you) Walsh, the Hoboken schoolmaster who has been
blowing whistles on Eastern basketball courts for more years than he will tell
you, is gradually retiring from active officiating to devote more of his time to
the post of associate director of the recently formed Collegiate Basketball Offi-
cisals' Bureau,

When Dave accepted the supervising job with Asa Bushnell's agency, it
was anticipated that he could combine it with a reasonsbly full officiating sche-
dule, so he booked his quota of Bastern Leasue games and took on assignments for
a number of others in the New York and Philadelphia districts,

As things worked out, though, it became evident that Dave had taken on
too large a burden, After all, even a basketball official has to sleep some
time, The bureau, instead of assigning officials for the ten colleges which
were its founders last spring, found itself working for more than a dozen others
and steadily increasing its list of registered officials,

An announcement by Bushnell yesterday explained the situation thus:
"Walsh has been released from engagements to handle games this season for most
of the colleges in the New York-Pennsylvania area in order that he may have more
time to devote to the training of younger officials and to the promotion of the
bureau's efforts to standardize officialing technique and mechanics and to bring
greater uniformity into the interpretation of the rules,

"Nevertheless, he will continue, throushout the present season only, to
officiate in games of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League; this excep-
tion is being made because the league's staff of referees and umpires for this
year's service was made up many months ago and does not include ready replace-
ments,"

Walsh and the other associate director, Ellwood A, Geiges, of Philadel-
phia, have their work cut out for them in trying to carry out the bureau's aims,
If it is any consolation to them, though, the college coaches are as one in
hoping that they eventually succeed in taking the phobias and inconsistencies
out of officialing in the bureau's territory, Then, perhaps, some progress can
be made toward bringing different districts closer together,

Who knows? It may be that at some not too distant date, basketball will
be officiated everywhere as uniformly as football, The millennium approaches!

Eastern College Fives to Vie for Silver Cup (continued from p. 6 )

 

The new tronhy must be won three times for permanent possession, It re-
places the Columbia University trophy, which became the property of Dartmouth,
The Indians won the league title in 1938, 1939 and 1940,

FAN SHAPE BACKBOARD GOOD

According to Dr, Phoggy Allen, the new fan-shaped backboards allow 55 per
cent of spectators sitting behind the basket to see the goal, as made,
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BASKETBALL TOPS AS SPECTATOR SPORT
By Dan Parker

NEW YORK DAILY MIRROR, December 17, 1940---~

One of the amazing things about the strictly American vame of basketball
is that, although it has been the sport of the masses ever since its peach-basket
beginning in Springfield, Mass,, in 1891, its possibilities as a spectator sport
were almost completely overlooked until recent years,

Invented as a "participent" sport to furnish an outlet for the excess en-
ergy of students at the Springfield Y.M.C.A, Collese during the winter months, it
was treated as such for many years before a smart young sports writer named Ned
Trish awakened the country to its latent vossibilities as a gate attraction, Cok
leges have been building huge football stadia for decades, But the average col-
lege basketball court was built with little thought of providing room for specta
tors, Thus, if Irish hadn't proved by his Madison Square Garden experiment that
basketball is a greater attraction than either hockey or boxing, college teams
would probably still be playing all their games in stuffy gyms where only a few
thousands at the most could be accommodated,

The great appeal of basketball lies in the fact that practically everyone
in America has played it and, therefore, has more than a passing interest in it,
not to mention more than a snat tering of knowledge about its fine points, The
same used to be true of baseball but there are so many forms of diversion for
the growing boy nowadays that America's so-called "national pastime" no longer
is played by every growing boy. Basketball leads all other American pastimes
both as a spectator and as a participation sport, It is played in every hamlet
in America and tops both football and baseball in annual paid attendance,

The last available figures on attendance at sports events were compiled in
1935 by Frank Menke, That year he estimated that 80,000,000 had attended bas-
ketball games in the United States, as compared with 60,000,000 for softball,
50,000,000 for baseball and 40,000,000 for football, Since then, basketball has
experienced its biggest boom, It is doubtful, however, if any of the other lead

ing sports except softball has shown an increase in attendance in the same period.

One of the reasons for the increased interest in basketball is that those
who draw up the rules for the game have heeded the protests of the public a-
gainst features which didn't appeal to them, The chief complaint about basket-
ball was that there was too much whistle blowing, Almost every second, the game
was stopped by the annoying toot of the official's flagiolet, The revision of
the rules several years ago eliminated much of the cause for this complaint
whithout radically changing the fundamental points of the game. In fact Dr, Jas,
A, Naismith, who invented the sport, commented not long ago on the fact that 12

of the 13 original rules he drew up are still in the books, Hockey might take a

hint from basketball by revising its rules to speed up the game and cut down the
whistle tooting,

A factor that has made basketball popular is that it gives the studious,
non-athletic type of kid a chance to shine at a competitive sport, whereas foot-
ball and baseball would keep him forever a spectator, Basketball is rough enough
not to be a sissy's game but not rough enough to cause injury to a frail young-
ster--unless he taxes his heart by over-indulgence in it, Speed and craftiness
count more than strength in this sport,

Naturally the growth of basketball in New York has not been without its
(contimied on page & )
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DR, ALLEN WANTS TO CHANGE RULES

NEW YORK, Dec, 28 (AP)--Dr. Forrest C, (Phog) Allen, University of Kansas
basketball coach and member of the national rules committee, today advocated a
change in the rules to eliminate the wear and tear on players of high school age
and younger,

Dr, Allen, speaking at a meeting of some 100 eastern cage coaches, offi-
cials and writers, pointed out that research by physicians and high school men-
bers of the rules body showed that the game had become too fast for adolescent
boys.

"T understand Floyd A, Rowe, of Cleveland, chairman of the committee, has
figures to show that the game as played today has shortened the stature of boys
from two to four inches," said the veteran coach, whose teams have won 2% confer-
ence titles in 30 years,

For boys under 19, Phog said he would either revive the center jump with
the players rotating. at the pivot position after each goal, or allow ten seconds
after each basket with the officials putting the ball in play out-of-bounds at
mid-court rather than beneath the basket,

Dr, Allen, along with Dave MacMillan of Minnesota, Buster Brannon of Rice
and Arthur Eilers, commissioner of the Missouri valley from Washington University
also advocated uniform interpretation of the rules,

MacMillan, professional star when the game was young, took a crack at
cosches for teaching "illegal" basketball,

"If the rules were read the same throughout the country, there would bem»
argument when a screen becomes a block, or such minor items as to whether a play-
er can report before he has doffed his sweat suit," he said,

Allen said what basketball, as well as all other college sports need, is
commissioners with the power that Edwin Atherton has in the Pacific Coast Confer=
ence,

Basketball Tops as Spectator Sport (continued from p. 8)

 

share of evils, Gamblers go where the crowds go and when big money is involved
they don't stop to consider the fact that they are dealing not with profession-
al athletes but with young college boys. There has been several incidents which
might have killed Gerden basketball and set the college boys back to their stuf-
fy gyms had the fact come out, Of course, the wey to thwart the gamblers is to
treat them as ehemies and drive them out of the Garden, Otherwise, incidents
may develop again which will not be hushed up so easily,

It would be a tragedy for anything like that to happen, after Promoter
Irish has worked so hard to build up this monument to his enterprise and genius,

PANZER'S 44-GAME STREAK BROKEN

_ Some three years ago, little Panzer College, of East Orange, N. J., lost
to Long Island University, while the latter was rolling up its 43-geme winning
streak, Since that time, Panzer won 44 straight games, probably a college re-
cord, Like all good things, this success ended Jamary 4, when John Marshall bea
Panzer 43-40,
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BASKETBALL FROM ALL ANGLES
By Joseph M, Sheehan

NEW YORK TIMES, Jan, 7, 1940 ---

Notwithstanding an apparent trend to the offense in the game, most of
the conversation at yesterday's luncheon of the Metropolitan Basketball Writers
Association at the Hotel Lincoln was devoted to defense,

Dave Walsh, veteran official, made the prevalent neglect of this phase
of play the central theme of his discourse on "What's Wrone with Basketball,"
On the other hand, Honey Russell, Seton Hall coach, asserted that his emphasis
on defense was a contributing factor to the New Jersey team's %2-game winning
streak,

No longer an active whistle-blower in his capacity as associate di-
rector (to Asa Bushnell) of the College Basketball Officials Bureau, Walsh poi-
hted out that "the value of a basket has been cheapened" because of the reluc-
tance of the defensive side to come and get the ball,

"In any game where a ball is involved the ball has value," Walsh main-
tained, "With the ten-second rule the defensive team no longer makes a play for
it, but packs in around its basket and waits for the attacking side to bring it
down the floor, As a result basketball is being played on less than half the
court,

"With possession reverting to the defensive side after a successful
shot, the tendency is to give the offense all the time it wants for "picture
shots" from way out and concentrate on retrieving the ball, As I see it, this
is bad for the came, and I'm not speaking from the official's point of view,
for it means more work when there is aggressive guarding all over the court,"

At the same time Walsh hailed the progress made in this sector in at-
taining uniform interpretation of troublesome plays, "Our officials now are
absolutely consistent in their decisions," he stated, "We are sticking to the
rule book 100 per cent, and no Eastern or visiting team will have the slightest
difficulty if it does likewise,"

In analyzing the success of his Seton Hall team Russell said that one
of his "few fixed ideas on basketball" was that “defense is paramount." "The
fewer points the other team makes the fewer you have to get," he declared, "We
emphasize defense all the time, and now and then use what I call a 'Blitzkrieg!
defense, in which we guard all over the court,"

Material in such quantity that he is able to use two and even three
distinct teams on an alternate basis was willingly admitted by Russell as an-
other factor at East Orange, N, J, “And then our players aren't so smart that
they think they don't have to drive and run to win," Honey added,

Howard Cann, in telling "Why N, Y, U. clicks," also stressed the im-
portance of condition and its manifestation in relentless moving and driving,
"We go in for calisthenics, apparatus work and rope skipping to get our boys h
shape," the Violet mentor said, "There's one mistake high school coaches make,
They do a fine job technically, but they ought to pay more attention to develo-
ping their players physically,"

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Basketball From All Angles (continued from p. 10)

Lon Jourdet of Pennsylvania, who predicted that Dartmouth, the champ-
ion, would find harder going in the Eastern League this year, with Princeton and
Cornell as the leading threats; Clair Bee, who passed off L. I. U.'s defeat by
Michigan State as "a natural let-down," and Albert Gorton of Panzer College com-
pleted the roster of speakers,

Gorton, invited because his team had won 44 straight games, was "left
without much to say," after Panzer's defeat by John Marshall last Saturday, How-
ever, he pointed out thet Panzer had made its remarkable record with (1) no ath-
letic scholarships, (2) only 90 male students to draw from: (3) limited practice
time and (4) a small gymnasium,

A BRUSH FOR PASSES

Clair Bee, L, I, U, basketball coach, has been trying to get his boys to
make more liberal use of the bounce pass, with little success, He finally di-
agnosed their trouble as fear of getting their fingernails dirty after the ball
has touched the floor, so he bought a little brush twelve inches long for them
to clean their nails with after each game,

ILLNESS MAY FORCE KEOGAN TO RETIRE

NOTRE DAME, IND., Dec, 21--As a result of the recent physical examination
which revealed a heart ailment, George E, Keogan said today he may relinquish
his position as basketball coach at Notre Dame,

Keogan, now in his 18th. season at the Irish camp, will go to Rochester,
Minn,, Wednesday for a complete examination at the Mayo Clinic and abide by the
decision of the Mayo doctors, leaving his coaching job immediately if that pro-
cedure is recommended,

BLOOMINGTON EXCITED

BLOOMINGTON, IND,, Indiana University Basketball fans were kept vosted
on the progress of the Hurryin!' Hoosier netters during their recent tour of
the Pacific coast and the South by means of special telgraphic play—by—play
broadcasts of each game,

The broadcasts, held in a Bloomington cafe and sponsored by a gzroup of
merchants and basketball fans, are made possible by a leased wire from the city
where each game is played to the kitchen of the establishment in which the tem-
porary "broadcasting booth" has been placed,

Crowds of fans were lined out into the street for each report, and one
Bloomington newspaper announced that calls for scores on each game number in
the thousands and are being received until 3 o'clock the next morning,

JOHNNY MOIR

NOBLESVILLE, IND., Dec, 19--Johnny Moir, all-time All-American from Notre
Dame and one of the greatest stars ever to don a basketball uniform, is now in
the Akron Firestone line-up, Playing with Moir with Firestone, National League -
champions last season, will be Tommy Wukovitz and Paul DuCherme, of Notre Dame;
Fred Beretta, of Purdue; Bob Hassmiller, of Fordham; and Jack Jennings, of Wash-
ington State,
 

ALL-STARS WIN BASKETBALL'S GREATEST GAME
By Leo Fischer
Chicago-Herald-American - Nov, 30, 1940

22,000 See Trotters Lose, 44-42, Crowd cheers for five mimtes after thrilling
Finish,

Svort history has e new and elamorous page today,

The greatest crowd that has ever seen a basketball game in the history of
the sport - approximately 22,000 - today was still trying to get back to normal-
cy after probably the most thrilling, most spectacular battle in fifty years of
basketball at the Chicago Stadium last night,

At the finish of an overtime period, the College All-Stars had won 44 to
42, and if there wes any one in the vast expanse of the Stadium who retained ay-
thing resembling sanity, he certainly wasn't among the howling, shrieking mob
that stood in its seats and refused to leave the place,

Five minutes after the game ended, they were still yelling - which may
give you an idea of how successful The Herald-American's first anmal All-Star
basketball game turned out to be. They knew they were going to see something
in the way of a spectacle - but even if one of Hollywood's most gifted scenario
writers had written the script, he couldn't have come close to what actually hap-
pened before the sell-out crowd in that Stadium last night,

STARS TAKE LEAD,

At the end of the first quarter the All-Stars led the Harlem Globe trot-
ters, world's pro-champs, 13-11, at the end of the first half the score was 20
to 20, At the end of the third period it was 30 to 30, With thirty seconds to
play in the second half, it was 37 to 37, Then Ralph Vaughn, Southern Califor-
nia'a great star, hooked 9 one-handed shot from the free throw line which ap-
parently won for the All-Stars,

But as the crowd rose to cheer for his spectacular shot, "Sonny" Boswell
of the Globetrotters let fly from the middle of the floor as the gun went off
and it swished through to turn 22,000 customers into revine maniacs,

The overtime requires more adjectives than this veteran of several thou-
sand basketball games has at his disposal, Boswell put the Globe Trotters a-
head with a free throw, 40 to 39, Ralph Vaughn again broke loose with his left
hand and popped one throush to vut the Stars in front, 41 to 40, Erwin Prasse
sank a free throw to make it 42 to 40 vith one minute to play, Then Lou Press-
ley again brought the crowd to its feet from one out in midfloor which tied it
again at 42 to 42 - and if vou think that this didn't send the crowd to delir-
ium, just ask one of the hoarse-throated svectators,

TIE UP SCORE.

One minute to play and the score tied!

The All-Stars took the ball, Carefully they passed it beyond mid-floor,
cautiously awaiting for the chance to shoot as the seconds ticked away, Then
suddenly Stan Szukala - DePaul's captain last year and co-captain of the squad
broke away at the right of the basket, He dribbled vast the guards, shot und-
er the hoop and caged a perfect two-pointer as he flew past. It was the win-
ning tasket, but the game wasn't over by any means,
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Courageously the Globe Trotters fought back, Half a dozen shots missed by
only the tiniest of margins as the crowd grew more and more frantic, and as_ the
gun went off a foul was called on the All-Stars which might have cut their mar-
gin to one point -- but the Globe Trotters waived the throw, =

Then came one of the most amazing spectacles that this writer has seen in
many years of covering sports, The crowd just stood there and yelled, The game
wes over, the curtain had dropped on the final act on the most spectacular eve-
nt in Stadium history, but they just stood there and cheered for fully five min
utes while players congratulated each other, Coach Lonborg tried to become co-
herent once more and from one end of the Stadium to the other there echoed this
sentiment: "Well, you'll never see anything like that again!"

AN ANNUAL EVENT

But you probably will, The Herald-American's All-Star Basketball Game is
a permanent fixture in Chicago's sport picture and will be staged annually, Last
night's capacity crowd gave this city the unusual record of having turned out
the largest crowds in basketball, football, and boxing, Actual paid attendance
was 20,583, with passes and officials bringing the total well up around 22,000.
Every seat of the Stadium's largest set-up was filled with hundreds standing in
the upper galleries and additional hundreds turned away for lack of room,

Everything on the program was spectacular and impressive, The vre-game
ceremonies arranged by Harry Berz were patriotic in theme and beautifully exe-
cuted, When John Pane-Gasser sang the Star Spangled Banner after the players
on both teams had been introduced, it was something that stirred the hearts of
those who realized what it meant to be a free American, a participant in a spo
rt spectacle in which whites and Negroes mixed as sportsmen, with no worries
about dictators, wars and "fifth columnists",

GAME OPENS SLOWLY

And now for the same itself, It opened slowly enough, with Irwin Passe
of Iowa sinking two free throws to put the All-Stars in front at the start.
Price caged a free throw to make it 2 to 1, but Bob Carpenter of East Texas
Teachers sank the first of his six field goals to make it 6 to 1 after Vaughn
had caged a hooker,

Ford's long basket (most of the Globe Trotter's shots were from far out )
made it 6 to 3, but Carpenter again hooked a one-handed thriller to make it 8
to 3, Then he came back with another to make it 10 to 7 after Presseley and
Price had scored for the pro champs, Presseley's basket, a step-in, made it 10
to 9, but Prasse sank a free throw and Bill Hapac connected with a brilliant +
hander to run the All-Star total to 13. Brown's long on made it 13 to 11 as a
quarter ended,.

The biggest lead by any team was rung up by the All-Stars as they start-

ed the second quarter with a new quintet, 18 to 12, but before they knew what

was happening, Presseley made a free throw, Boswell caged a basket and two more
penalty shots and Presseley tossed in another long one to make it 19 to 18 for
the Globe Trotters, Bill McDonald's follow-up again put the All-Stars in front
but Hillary Brown tied it with a free throw at 20-all as the half ended,

The Globe Trotters came out with the inspiration after the intermission,
and accumulated their biggest lead, 30 to 25, on four baskets by Boswell and
another by Price, with McDonald and Hapac Seeciae for the Stars from the field

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SUPER-ULTRA CAGE BATTLE IS CLASSIC
By Warren Brown

CHICAGO HERALD-AMERICAN, Nov. 30, 1940----
Basketball's big league came to Chicago last night,

Basketball at its biggest, basketball at its best, basketball--as con-
quering Collegiate All-Stars and clever Harlem Globe Trotters played it that
supplied, in this one man's opinion at. least, the superlatively exciting compe-
tative spectacle encountered along a well rounded sport line in more then a
quarter of a century.

Small wonder, then, that basketball's greatest crowd in all history is
all agog today, and can hardly wait for the renewal of this great spectacle, in-
augurated by The Chicago HERALD-AMERICAN at the Chicago Stadium last night,

It left nothing to be desired, this show that began smoothly, took on
an entertainment momentum that increased as the mimutes ticked away, and finished
with a sensational climax that left 20,853 fairly limp from contemplation of it
all.

Elsewhere in these pages, you who were unlucky enough not to have been
present as the game took its place among Chicago's and the nation's sporting fix-
tures, will get the glowing details of the things that Stan Szukala of DePaul,
Erwin Prasse of Iowa, Ralph Vaughan of Southern California, Bill Hapac of I1llin-
ois, Bob Carpenter of Texas Teachers and all the other Collegiate heroes did,
and how they did it. You will read of the Globe Trotters! Bernard Price, "Sonny"
Boswell, Ted Strong and the other heroes of the world's professional champions,

We're going to be content to draw a picture -- inadequate as it will be-—-
of the pageantry, the excitement, the crowd,

Seems simple enough, doesn't it?

But where to begin -- will it be with that demonstration of more than
20,000 persons on their feet continuously in the final frantic minutes of play?
Will it be that mass production of basketball for all, when at the half time, as
the young legionnaires were beating drums and blowing bugles, while some beauti-
ful young ladies from Lake View were twirling batons---down from the upper reach-
es of the vast Stadium descended hundreds of yellow balloons?

Probably the proper procedure will be to take it all in stride, from the
spot-lighted presentation of the Collegiate mascot, Miss Dorothy O'Kelly, and of
the Globe Trotters! mascot, Miss Miriam Ali, to the last second of the last min-
ute as that more than 20,000 gave its last, its final, its all endorsing whoop of
sheer joy at having been part of a spectacle that will live long in Chicago's
sport promotional history. ,

There was the presentation of the Collegiate players, in the spotlight,
each lad trotting across the floor until all members of the squad, and their
victorious coach, Arthur (Dutch) Lonborg, had been introduced, Then came the
Globe Trotters, all together, entering the vast arena as they played in it, one
for all and all for one,

Then came the stirring rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by John
Pane-Gasser,
Super-Ultra Cage Battle is Classic (continued)

At half time...when the balloon decension more than shared the exciting
interlude with the lads of the Hearst Post of the American Legion, and the las-
sies of Lake View High ... there was also the singing of "I Love the U.S.A." by
Roy Kanold, a young member of the Chicago Civic Opera chorus...

And after that, more basketball .., basketball, the like of which even the
oldest settlers probably could not recall,

Since it is our job to secribe the attractions in the main tent, and in
the side show, we are proud to be able to report that our fellow workman, Jim
Enright, who officiated in the preliminary struggle between the Chicago Bruins,
and the Oshkosh Stars, was every bit as theatrical as the famous Pat Kennedy, who
came all the way from New York to referee the main event,

As a matter of fact, our Mr, Enright's shirt, which was of the hue of
billiard cloth, his mannerisms and his agility quite captivated the crowd fully
as much as it did this reporter .., On the more sedate side, in the preliminary
game was John Schommer, another able official, while Parke Carroll, Kansas City's
gift to basketball officiating, was unobstrusively efficient while his co-worker
Kennedy went-through the act that has made him notable,

All in all, it was an evening to be remembered, as Basketball's Big League
came to Chicago last night, and the Collegiate All-Stars carried off the precious
golden trophy, a memorial to the late Paddy Harmon, whose idea the Chicago Stad-
ium was, In closing, let us say again that not since the doors of the vast Sta-
dium opened for the first time has there been another show in any field that
touched the high spots presented last night when The HERALD-AMERICAN brought Bas-
ketball Big League to Chicago.

REPORT OF N,C.A,A, 1940 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

The Eastern play-off was held at the Butler Field House, Indianapolis,
Indiana on March 22 and 23; the Western play-off at the Municipal Auditorium at
Kansas City, Missouri, March 22 and 23 and the final game was played at Kansas
City on March 30,

The following summary gives the picture of the Tournament:
Western play-off and the final game, Kansas Citys

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MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE

The Missouri Valley Conference schools consisting of:

Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska

Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa

Oklahome A, & M,, Stillwater, Oklshoma

St, Louis University, St, Louis, Missouri

Tulsa University, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
have voted to install the new fan shape backboards, Each of the schools are mak-
ing installation during the Holiday recess,

While the double round robin schedule of the Missouri Valley Conference
has never started until the second week in Jamary in past years, Washington Uni-
versity and St. Louis University, both of St. Louis, Mo., stole a march on the ot-
her schools and had the first meeting of the year on December 20th, Washington
won in the last few seconds 32 to 31, This precedent of starting the Conference
schedule before the Holiday season will probably be carried into the Conference,
next year,

The ups and downs of basketball were clearly demonstrated in Marquette Un-
iversity's loss to Creighton 57 to 12 on Monday night, December 16th and their vic-
tory over Wisconsin University on Saturday night, December 21, by the score of 40
to 30,

In meeting the University of Nebraska, Marquette was forced to borrow all
equipment from the Nebraska Frosh team, The Marquette equipment, carried in one
trunk had ended up in Denver, Colorado instead of Lincoln, Nebraska,

Coach Harold Browne of the University of Nebraska has been called into ser-
vice. His last work with the team was the Kentucky game which Nebraska won 40 to
39, His assistant, A. J, Lewandowski will take over until his return after a year
of service for Uncle San,

Coach Carl "Rube" Hoy of the University of South Dakota, says: "Once in a
while you have a little trouble with someone who thinks they can coach the team
better than you can, I just tell them, it sure is fine, But I don't see how
they can afford to do it, They don't pay me very much and working for nothing
would be pretty tough,"

U. S, DEFENSE CAUSES CAGE LOOP TO QUIT

TULSA, Dec, 20 (AP)--The potential effect of the national defense program
_ on organized sports was emphasized today with suspension of the Missouri Valley
A. A. U. basketball league,

| The strong amateur circuit's decision to abandon operations for the 1940-
1941 season due to the nation's rearmament effort was reported by President Wil-
liam H, Miller,

Some companies supportint teams are engaged in industry essential to de-
fense, Miller said that meant that men could not be spared from their work to
play basketball, Team managers were unable to make definite plans because of the
athletes possibly being taken in the draft,
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HIGH BASKETBALL SCORES
By Louis Effrat

NEW YORK TIMES, Jan, 1, 1941-----
Geneva 72 St. Francis 68
R, I. State 74 St. Joseph's 66
Rice 73 Albright 65
Long Island Univ, 61 Rice 57

Sooner or later the charge of "lively ball," a cry frequently heard in
baseball, may find its counterpart in basketball circles unless somewhere, some-
how, some inzenious coach can devise a workable defense against the unprecedent-
ed scoring sprees throughout the country, When teams can tally anywhere from 50
to 65 points and still wind up on the losing end it becomes apparent that a prob-
lem does exist,

Perhaps Mr, Basketball Fan is not concerned with such matters, but Mr.
Coach is --- or should be, For while the primary purpose is to outscore the op-
position, it is, at least, secondary that some attention be given the . defense,
What, then, has happened to that defense? Whatever became of those 28-26 scores
of yesteryear?

It is obvious that in a game where one team scores 72 points and the other
68, thrilling and crowd-pleasing though it may have been, there must have been
a flaw, All signs would indicate a neglect of the defense, Could it be that leg-
islation in recent years has streamlined the sport to an extent where a quintet
hasn't time to set up an adequate defense?

7 Surely, there must be fans who remember when a player boasted more of hav-
ing held his man scoreless than of his own point production; when he played his
man more then the ball; when the man-to-man defense was an integral part of the
game and when the enigmatic zone defense came out of Western Pennsylvania to
cramp further the style of the would-be scorers,

Then the powers that be began to tinker with the mles, Elimination of
the center jump, the ten-second and three-second regulations, the additional
time out -- suddenly a premium was placed on speed, speed and more speed. Defen-
sively, there was so much to be done, so little time in which to do it,

The results to date would anpear to be helter-skelter, hit-or-miss basket-
ball, featured by one-hsnded twist shots, two-handed push shots and some indes-
crible freak shots, Failure to score has meant little, It is only a matter of
seconds before other opportunities will again present themselves, Thus the oft-
en incredible point totals of today, when three or more offensive men overwhelm-
ing a lone defender is commonplace,

Judging by the tremendous turnouts, such as the 17,082 Garden crowd Monday
(en off night) when L.I,U, and Rice scored a total of 118 points,it may be that
the fans prefer the game as it is played now. No one can deny that it was a
thrilling and exciting game--but was it basketball?

NEW GARDEN RECORD

When Illinois defeated Manhattan College 56-40 in the opening double head-
er at the Madison Square Garden, the Illini set a Garden record, in converting
every one of their 18 foul tries.
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HANK LUISETTI
By Will Connolly

THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE:

Among the blessings of the restoration of Henry Iuisetti to amateur
status after three years of exile is his easy availability to all to see,

We have no doubt Henry is the greatest basketball player ever developed
on this Coast and, for all we kmow, the greatest in the U.S,A,, which means the
world, But for an athlete of his stature he has been seen by fewer citizens than
any other prodigy of comparable skill,

luisetti's performances with the Stanford quintet were virtually private
showings, the seating capacities of the Berkeley and Palo Alto gyms being Limit-
ed. <A few thousand outlanders at Los Angeles also saw him upon the occasions of
the USC and UCLA games, but in general Angelo Henry is a sort of a storied myth
to San Franciscans, although the boy was born here and learned his art on public

playgrounds,

Whenever Inisetti took the floor in Conference games, the students packed
the joint to the exclusion of outside citizens, which is as it should be, and we
have no quarrel with that, However, it is a fact, Iuisetti is blindly accepted
by San Francisco people as the best gol darned cager that ever swished a basket,
sight unseen, His local reputation is based solely uvon faith and the trust-
worthiness of those previous few adults who managed to elbow their way into the
barns at Stanford and Cal,

We believe Iuisetti is as untouchable in his sport as Helen Wills Moody
Roark was in feminine tennis; Jack Dempsey or Jim Jeffries or Joe Louis was (or
is) in boxing or Bobby Jones in golf, Yet 100 times the number of spectators
who watched Iuisetti watched Moody-Roark, the prize fighters, and Jones at one
time or another, There are some same citizens who don't believe there is such a
person as Iwisetti and they are not to be ridiculed for their skepticism,

Iuisetti will be available to the masses now that he is eligible to work
for the Olympic Club, His first appearance will be tomorrow night at Civic Audi-
torium against Stenford, There are ample seats up to 10,000 in the Auditorium,
so there is no excuse henceforth for doubting Luisetti exists in the flesh,

No kidding, he does,
se ee en eee ee
By Bill Leiser

THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE:

Can you imagine the greatest basketball player in the world knocking on
the door of a prep school gym and asking to practice fundamentals with the high
school youngsters? Let Bobby Stevens tell it, in the note he leaves on my desk:

“Hank Luisetti, whom I rate as the greatest athlete I've ever seen have

not seen very many but he's still the greatest) makes his re-debut into the ama-
teur basketball ranks tonight at the Civic Auditorium,
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Hank Inuisetti (continued)
"I've always been a good listener to stories concerning Hank because
I've looked up to him as a world champion, a ‘natural’! in anything he's ever
done, But here's the point and I thought you could use it in col. form today,

"It's timely because of his return to the courts after a three-year per-
iod of obscurity, And this is typical of the Luisetti I followed in high school
and the champion I cheered at Stanford,

"During the psst month or so Hank has been continually practicing, get-
ting into perfect physical shape with the hope the A,A.U. would reinstate him,
He's never done anything halfway so its reasonable to assume the Iuisetti who'll
play tonight for the Olympic Club against Stanford is the same Hank, just a lit-
tle older edition, who shattered scoring records on the Farm,

"Now, last Friday, while Galileo was practicing, Hank kmocked on the
gym door and asked Tommy DeNike, who first coached him as a scrawny, spindly-
legged 120-pounder, if the preps were working out,

"Sure, Hank,' said Tommy, 'want to come in and watch?!

"Hank said he'd like to work with them if DeNike would permit it, DeNike
told him to hustle downstairs and get into a suit and come up and play, the kids
would get a terrific thrill out of working with him,

"'tBut,!' added DeNike, 'We're only working on fundsementals today,!
"That's just exactly what I want,!' answered Hank,

"And there it is, the greatest basketball player the Coast has ever pro-
duced, perhaps the most amazing the Nation has ever produced, eager to practice
fundamentals with a high school team,

"He said he needed the fundamentals too, So he donned a suit, practiced
with the kids, listened attentively to DeNike as he gave pointers to the preps
and actually tried them out himself, After thst he went to a vacant basket and
worked for two straight hours on pivots, feints, lay-up shots, dribbling --- the
whole pattern of offensive basketball,

"He helped some of the preps, too, patiently answering their questions an
laughing when, after he'd micsed the easy ones just like us,"

"The next morning he was out at George Washington high working with Lloyd
Leith's kids, answering the same questions, and going through the same practice
schedule, he's religiously stayed with ever since he was an obscure prep.

"That, Bill, is why Luisetti was so great and may be even better now, He's
never figured himself so polished he couldn't listen to pointers from high sch-
ool coaches, And he's the same Imisetti I knew at high school, a little on the
bashful side, unaffected by the buridreds of superlatives that have fallen at his
feet from the time he could lift a basketball,

"Iuisetti isn't just an athletic champion,"

EDITOR'S NOTE---A crowd of 10,000 witnessed Inisetti's debut, follow-
ing his reinstatement, The king of the court scored 20 points, as
his Alma Mater, Stanford, scored a 52-48 victory over the Olympic
Club,
 

JOURDET PREDICTS RETURN SOON OF JUMP AT CENTER

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 14---Lon Jourdet, coach of the University of Pennsyl-
-vania basketball team, now in his 17th season, believes that a greater use of the
pivot play among college teams will be made during the coming season,

"We expect to make more use of the pivot this season than we have since
1934, when Donald Kellett graduated," Jourdet said, "I think other college
teams also will make extensive use of the play which many coaches and specta-
tors believe to be one of the most spectacular and at the same time one of the
most effective offensive vesapons in basketball,"

The restrictions placed on the pivot a number of years ago almost com-
pletely killed the play. The new three-second rule, however, has revived the
play considerably and Jourdet believes that this season it will return not to
its former high estate but as a definite part of most offences,

The three-secoénd rule and the fact that the pivot must work from out-
side the foul circle on either side will not prevent a good pivot from execut-
ing the play. It will teke capable, fast ball handling to make the play work,
but I am sure there are enough good ball handlers in college circles who can
work the play,

The speeding up of the court games durins the past few years as a re-
sult of the elimination of the center jump causes Jourdet to make his annual vre-
diction that the center tap will return to the game before long, Jourdet has
found a definite trend among the veteran coaches and a sprinkling of the younger
ones, toward the return of what he regards as a basic play of the sport that sh-
ould never have been removed,

The trend toward the return, according to Jourdet, will result in mod-
ifications within a few years with the possible complete return of the play
within five years, Jourdet says he will never change his attitude toward the
center tap regardless of the type of squad he coaches, This season, for instan-
ce, for the first time in many years, he has a squad tall enough to get the ball
_off the backboard,

FOURTH ANNUAL INVITATION GARDEN TOURNEY IN MARCH
By Everett B, Morris

Dates for the fourth anmal national intercollegiate invitation bas-
ketball tournament at Madison Square Garden next spring were decided upon ten-
tatively at a meeting of the Metropolitan College Basketball Committee recently.
‘This group, organized last year by representatives of all the colleges and uni-
_versities in the city excevt N, Y. U., selected March 18, 19, 22, and 24 for the
post-season fixture,

With four dates at its disposal, the committee will be able to invite
eight teams, instead of six as in the past, if that many high-ranking candidates
are available, An eight-team tourney will obviate the first-round byes hereto-
fore granted to teams traveling the longest distances to compete, and will make
for a better-balanced, more representative competition,

Professor Walter Williamson, director of athletics at the College of
the City of New York, was elected chairman of the committee, and Clair F, Bee,
of Long Island University, was named secretary-treasurer,
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and Carpenter from the foul line,

Then Hapac and Vauchn hit their stride, the former contributing a one—hand-
ed side shot and the latter two free throws, with Szukala finishing the drive by
tying the score on a perfect block play as the third quarter ended, They made it
30 to 30,

TROTTERS TO FRONT

Presseley's long one again put the Trotters in front to start the fourth
period, but Carpenter and Szukala caged quick ones to regain the lead, Then it
was Price and Boswell who turned the game around again, and with a free throw a-
piece the pros led, 37 to 35 with three minutes to play.

Carpenter's one-handed shot quickly tied it up, and then came that hair-
taising finish, with Vaughn and Boswell caging their spectatular shots, After
that the overtime -- and the All-Star victory over as fine a basketball team as
this country will see in many a year.

Carpenter, whom the All-America Basketball Board dug up from East Texas
Teachers of Commerce, Texas, was the individual star with 13 of the All-Star
points, besides some brilliant floor work, Stan Szukala, Bill Hapac, Erwin Pras-

se, Ralph Vaughn -- it's hard to pick any one who stood out, any more than it is
one of the Globe Trotters, They were ALL good!

REPRESENT CHICAGO AREA
The team which played most of the second half and the owrtime for the All-
Stars consisted of Vaughn and Hapac, forwards; Carpenter, center; Prasse and Szu-

kala, guards, Three of them--Hapac, Prasse and Szukala---are from the Chicago a-
rea, a fine tribute to the type of basketball played around here,

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COACHES TAKE NOTICE | { i
Bud Foster has asked that all coaches be on the lookout for movie material
for the convention, He wants to hear about everything that has been taken, and

will try to pick the best,