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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.