NEWS RELEASE

BASKETBALL GOLDEN JUBILEE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Springfield, Mass.: The Naismith Memorial Executive Committee
announced today that the University of Pennsylvania had designated its
regularly scheduled basketball contest with Cornell University, on
February 25, 1942 at the Palastra in Philadelphia, as a Golden Ball Game.

Golden Ball Games are being played everywhere by teams this
year as part of the Golden Jubilee campaign, ‘is order to raise funds for
the construction of a Temple of Basketball at Springfield, Mass., to
honor Dr. Naismith, who founded the game fifty years ago.

The Committee also announced that the thirty-one members of
the Public High School Athletic Association of Suffolk County, Long
Island, passed unanimous resolution scmmbircine each schoal to play a
Golden Ball Game,

Since the start of the campaign, 426 games have been scheduled —
in forty~two of the forty-eight states, as well as in Alaska and Puerto
Rico. New York leads the list of states with 71 Golden Ball Games
scheduled; Illinois is second with 26 games; Iowa third with 21; and
Massachusetts fourth with 19,

In the Temple of Basketball, which will consist of a Museum
and Hall of Fame, will be preserved all the records of the leading
- teams and players of past, present and future generations, as well as
all the important memorabilia of the sport. Every team playing a
Golden Ball Game will have its picture anda record of the game placed

in the archives of the Hall of Fame.