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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,