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DISCOURAGE "PRO" VS AMATEUR COMPETITION

One item of business discussed at the annual convention of
this Association at Chicago last spring considered the attitude of the
group toward the relationship of school, amateur, Ssemi-pro, and pro-
fessional basketball players. An extract from the minutes of the meet—
ing covering this topic is printed:

SECRETARY EDWARDS: Mr. Bingham, executive secretary of the
A.A.U., is not here at this time, but wishes our opinion in regard to
the practice of scheduling games between semi-pro or pro teams and
school or college teams, He points out that a school or amateur player
who participates with or against semi-pro or pro players endangers his
jimediate as well as his future eligibility. To obtain the opinion of
this group a motion would be in order,

‘DR. ALLEN: In view of the fact that basketball will be in-
corporated in the Olympics, and in view of the fact that it might en-
danger the eligibility of school or amateur players who play with or
against professional teams; I so move you that college coaches go on
record as discouraging any participation with professional teams.

The motion was seconded by Mr, Kahler, voted upon, and car-
ried without a dissenting vote,

Along this line The Amateur Athlete, official publication of
the A. A. U., says editorially:

"Determined efforts are being made on all fronts to keep the pro-
fessional and amateur basketball teams apart and to elininate from the
amateur ranks those teams which insist upon traveling from one end of
the country to the other over long periods in defiance of the A, A, U.
rule which limits them to three weeks of traveling away from home,"

The same publication also states that the American Olympic
Basketball Committee has ruled that.no team will be permitted to play
in the Olympic tryouts under the trade name of the concern with which
the players are employed,

 

WILL TEST A CENTER JUMP MODIFICATION

Five of the schools in the Big Six conference have agreed
on two modifications of the official jumping rules to be tried as an
experiment in the championship games they play with each other this
winter. The changes are:

1. A 12-foot circle is to be drawn around the center circle and
will serve as a restraining circle for non jumpers under the same reg-
ulations in force for jump balls at the free throw line.

2, "Floor" jumps are eliminated. Any jump following a held ball,

3 for any other reason, will be made at the nearest of the three cir-
cles.
The five schools involved in this modification are Nebraska,
Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, and Missouri. Oklahoma, the sixth
member of the conference, was not represented at the meeting when the
changes were adopted and will not be required to enter the test. A set
of records covering the situations developed by these modifications
will be compared with similar situations found in games played under
official rules, Theoretically, the changes are expected to reduce the
crowding and fouling at center Jumps; to give the shorter player a
better chance to recover tips; to reduce the number of held balls; and
to eliminate a few out-of-bounds balls resulting from tips made in the
corners. A report of the findings will be submitted to the Association
at its annual convention,