RCC FOR The ROVEPENT

It would be ridiculous to say that there isn't room for
improvement in basketball. But when the rules committee takes
up the matter of correction it should renember that most of the
things now being criticized are the result of changes that were
designed to correct what previously were considered faults.

A case in point is the elimination of the center tipoff
after a score, rurpose behind the elimination df the tipoff was
to minimize the importance of .a tall.center, Maybe ‘the change did
that, but it stili didn't eliminate the LAP OE HAASE of aeight in
the team as a whole, ;

Beyond that, the cha nge -prouc cht up ‘the réasons for the
present epbti ding has ving the ball ta the team which was scored
on, cut of bounds; Do. thescritics want to’ a° back-t6.the .center
tipoff, or do a. aces an mind:a, better -way of putting the ball
back in pray: afte apSeQre? ek. bee es on |

ANOTHER ¢ ‘CHANGE FAILE :D OF: PURP

Another chenge that. aeasa akan ds AS , SROADPE PS PERS PPP ently

has ‘failedoin/ itsopurpose ofp) chaos. ieee A Ge Boas
Theat is the one that provides for ‘moving the ball out cr the

back court within 10 seconds, The purpose was to, eliminate svalling,
In a way it may have done that, but it resulted in an objéction
-@ven greeter. than the old- time stalling.
4 Whereas. it is still possible to stall the fron cou;t, the
game is now limited to helf the floor roe “of agile cot as
once was the’ case, Defensive: players no longer: go: beyons mid-court
to obtain possession of the ball, but.wait; for. the, oppos sien to
advance past mid-court, It is much like defensive hockey “at its
worst, with the defense scurrying back to. def ense of its” own goal
as soon as it. doses possession of the. ball, . 4

These various matters. are not pointed out as direct criticisms,
but merely to illustrate the difficulties into which the rules
committee can get itself if it listens and responds, to all critics
without giving due. consideration to the new. diff iculties which
chenges — bring UD. . i)

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NO. PENAL IES: Li wees
Sports writer- L.innes epolis,

By Dick Cullum,
Vr. Cari B “have” Hoy, -s
Univers ity of south Dakota . ad Biuew ttadbadead
Vermillion, Std k 3 : hae 7

Dear Rube: ‘There: s oi . publicity yom here fron your “school which
quotes you as apposing. the .old four- fouls-and- out rule in basket-
ball, ebSi 63 ;
| You say that, in, all other $0 ants, ployers nay commit any
nunber ‘of fouls cand mene Ly; rhakke .the penalties unless, of course,
they are disqualifying: fouls

You say the same principle should govern din pasketbell.

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