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Why is Canada with only 27 votes tabulated on the questionnaire representing all of
the various bodies in Canada given two representatives on the Rules Commitiec?

(3) Certain factors have caused the coaches to question the organization of the
National Basketball Committee:

the determination of Mr, Porter to press the issue relative to the molded baskethall
and the faneshaped bankboard has developed the question regarding the evil of having
anyone as & permanént member of the Rules Committee. When this permanent member of
the Rules Committee is also the permanent Chairman of the Questionnaire Committec
and has the power which Mr. Porter holds over the high school group through his vosi-
tion with the National Federation of High School Athletic Associations, he is sub-
ject to the efforts of many PRESSURE GROUPS. Certainly this is not a healthy situa-
tion and is one that the National Collegiate Athletic Association could well investi-
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Quoting from another letter from Mr. Rowe in an effort to show the power which Mr,
Porter exerts on his group:

"mwnna=( Porter) as seerctary of the Rules Committee, he is very influential,

of course, and if I can enlist his support of these things, it will go a long
way toward securing the sort of Rules Committee action you coaches are anxious
to have,"

"Porter will continue as a member of the Basketball Rules Committee rather inde-
finitely. He is seeretary of the National Federation of State High School Ath=
letic Associations and, as such, will logically continue as one of their repre-
sentatives on the Rules Committee,"

(4) The members of our association have been puzzled by just what functions are
proper on part of the members of the National Basketball Committee. The follow-
ing inconsisteticies are noted;

(a) Endorsement of the faneshaped backboard by Mr. H, V. Porter for the J, E,
Porter Company, manufacturers of the board.

(b) hLrticle in the October 1941 issue of the ATHLETIC JOURNAL entitled, "YO
CAN NOT ST.ND IN THE WAY OFPROGRESS ,"

Not only did this article condemn the college coaches for their expression
of attitude against this article in a disrespectful mnner, but the article
was also used in a reprint sent out by the same J, ©. Porter Company,

The National Basketball Coaches Assceiation feels that this is contrary to
the spirit of the duties of the members of the Rules Committee to in any way
endorse any article of equipment or to push any new rule adoption. If the
proposal has merit, IT WILL BE ACCEPTEL BY THE COACHSS OF BASKATBALL.

Tho plan of action for the committee in studying the proposals for better relation=
ships between the two groups scemed to resolve itself into the following phases:

(1) Contact with the N,tional Intercollegiate Athletic Association relative te the
functions of the 1.C,A.4, representatives and the possibilities of an appeal to
that body shoulda our efforts to improve relationships with the National Basket-
ball Committee fail.

My, Phillip Badger of the N,C,,4, was contacted for atvice relative to the fimetias