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BASKETBALL REBCUNDS

Fitt Coach Annoyed by 'Loboy'
for Changes, Tosses in some
Good Fointers,

By Everett B, Morris.

For years Dr. Harold ¢ Carlson,M.D, Pittsburgh University's
Health officer, and basketball coach, has enjoyed .-.if that is
the word - a not undeserved reputation in our game as aggre tie
“of a stormy petrel, It has. been the custom to bracket him wit
such niviaahor ended hoppers: and convention eirdirdnds as Plgey Loeber’
and Doc Meanwell. “

But. time and his. ‘en Let’ Seite < Ca Lling eaves combined to mellow

r,.Carlson's nature and: t0 reduce. the violence. of. its Sap i OR h~
ness, As befits a figure: of his status in the ‘sports, he has come
to look upon’ basketball and its © yee wi oh. on enselfich, toler-
ént and understanding yee) -

Consequently, he has: been fhuch a) stutwea: bg ‘tho peens wave
of suggestions for altering the game, Proposats to go-:back to the
rules of -ten years ago ond counter-propogals to: toh the baskets,
establish traffic zones, use smaller’ balls andido dway with the
backboards cause im to Rpinkie his “brow in.perplexity.

PINT LLIGENT Ap? ROACH URGED

%,

"There is- nothing | wrong with basketball “that cannot be cured
» with a properly intelligent: ‘ooprocach," ne..sayss- "To put: it bluntly,
‘the fault lies right-with us, the condues, as

"This maze of” rule chang GS leads, to nowhere, it>ts..a man-
ifestation of dissatisfaction “with thé situations which force the
officials to decide the winners in a great majority of ali games,
We should have hed the courage end intelligence to face reality
When the pivot’plcy erystalized the fundamental issue of contact
several years ago, We evaded the issue by restricting ereas on the
floor rather then defining our game as non-contact, And now we
have more territoral claims to cause more wars,

"If we can return to the one fundamental of a non-contact
game, most of: the complexities will become simplified, The players
can end will play a non-contact game if they know waht to expect,
The officials will not be forced to define the varying degrees of
contact, Their work will be comparatively simplified by the per-
sons responsible for the contact,

"Let us begin a campaign to help the officials rather than
confound them further," 7

REST CURE FOR COACHES

Furthermore, the good doctor has a concrete plan for helping
the harried whistle-tocter, He suggests that a coach, instead of
putting the blast on referees in th ie heat of disappointment, after
losing games, go home, sleep on his troubles and the next day think
the whole matter over ‘rationally.. "Then," Dr, Carlson suggests,

Continued.