March 17th
: & 3 '4

Mr, George Edwards,
Basket Ball Coach,
University of Missouri,
Columbia, Mo,

Dear George:

In answer to vier Letter of the
14th inst., 27 am very happy to offer my suggestions for mater-
ial for consideration by the Rules Committee of the Nat ional
Association of Basket Ball Coaches,

One suggestion that I would like
to make would be namely, thet time should continue for the
last minute of each half as regards substitution, In other
words, to have the same rule that we have in football, namely, aed €
ae substitutions ere made in the last minute of each half time
shall continue even though substitutions are made,

¢ I have seen the last minute of a
game where 4.coach would take out time and inswpp a new man_
either as a move to frustrate the players or to save seconds.
For instance, when @ goal is made by either — there would
be a change of personnel,

| ZI believe this is ea distraction to
the game ant it is my opinion that many times this is done to
defeat the purpose of the rule. Especially so, when & man can
go into a game naceae times now, instead of two, °

In looking over the basket ball
questionnaire I am impressed with question #8, with its subdivi-~
sion. I am enclosing a copy of this questionnaire. for your perus- -
al,

The crowding in front and around the
basket seems to me a matter of the height of the basket. You
know I. believe that we could very profitably raise the basket to.
a height of 11 or 12 feet and take away some of the advantage