It is my belief that if coaches would have a more definite and
friendly undertanding with the officials whom they so kindly hire, our
game of basketball would improve rapidly. This friendliness and good
will would bring about a resultant good feeling on the part of the
players, who by their many remarks and actions can force a crowd to
terrific boos that we so often hear during the forty minutes of play.

It is my thought that teams who are fortunate enough to belong
to a conference should classify their officials as A, B, and C. The
man who has been in the game for a number of years and, in your, opinion,
is of the better grade should receive a top fee. The man with less
experience and less ability than a Class A man should receive a lesser
fee. Beginners should be relegated to the C class. [I look at this
purely from a business standpoint. If I hired a man tomorrow I would
pay him for what I got. If he were young and inexperienced I would start
him at a minimum wage. As his knowledge and experience improved, his
salary would be inoreased. I believe this also holds good in basketball
because I could not expect from a beginner or from the Class B official
what I ought to expect from an old timer.

Meany times when an old timer is hooked up with a beginner and
the game does not go along smoothly enough for the coach, the coach will
address his remarks on certain fouls that are missed to the more ex-
perienced official because he is expected to carry the load. Why, then,
can't we financially reimburse the old timer for the load he assumes in
carrying the beginner ?

I know that, if the bond between basketball coach and official is
strengthened it will improve our game with leaps and bounds. The fact
that a coach has engaged the man on the floor because he knows him to be
honest and to have courage to call what he sees, should be proof enough
that the game will be played according to the rules. We admit our
mistakes, Should not a coach also on his defense, offense, and
substitutions ?

 

 

RESULTS OF KANSAS ~ KANSAS STATE TESTS

The games in which Kansas and Kansas State tested various pro-
posals for rules changes found the two splitting the series. Each team
lost its home game. Kansas State won at Lawrence in an overtime contest
39 to 35 while Kansas was the winner at Manhattan 40 to 26.

Votes registered by spectators showed an approval of (1) séeortng
three points for a field goal; (2) Placing the backboards six feet from
the end line; (3) Use of restraining circles for jump balls; (4) Throw-
ing of personal freethrows in the half of the court where the foul was
made. Number 3 received only a very small margin of approval while the
others were more decisive.

The spectators were almost 3 to 1 opposed to any elevation of
the basket