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(1) The necd for special rulings in the high school and jumior high school game
have never been questioned by the college coaches; similar efforts regarding
the college game have been discouraged. The major problem of our associition
seems to lic in the problem of satisfying the needs, problems and interests of
the college group in situations where the colleges and high schools Inve a
wide difference in these necds, interests and problems.

Numerically, the ratio of high schools to colleges is at least 25 to 1; the
grouping of the opinion of 211 of the bodies represented on the National Bas-
ketball Committee gives the high schools such a preponderance of strength on
the questionmire that it my dictate the nature of the college gamc.

The criticism that the National Basketball Coachos Association is a sm1l a
body of the college coaches and not representative of college thought and opin-
ion is not a justifiable conclusion. MTowever, our present questionnaire, which
is mailed to every college and university coach in the country, will present an
accurate cross section of college opinion this year and in future yoars.

THE COLLEGE GAME OF BASKETBALL WILL EXPECT SPECIAL RULINGS FROM THE NATIONAL
BASKETBALL COMMITTEE IN SITUATIONS WHERE THE PROBLEMS; INTERESTS, AND NESDS OF
THE COLLEGE GAM WARRANT SUCH SPECIAL RULINGS.

(2) The wide difference in results from the questionnaires of the respective groups
has caused our group to question the methods employed by the Questionnaire Com-
mittee in formulating, sampling and tabulating their research questionnaire.

Quoting again fron correspondence with Mr. Floyd Rowe, Chairman of the National
Basketball Committee, indicates some of the problems relative to the oucstion=
naire:

"After all, the Rules Committee places 21 tremendous lot of weight upon the
results of the questionnaire."

"It would scem that largely the point at issue betweon you and Porter is whether
or not the questionnaire for this coming year (1942) should include questions
regarding the shape of the back stop and the type of ball. I think I am ina
position to say that you will never get a vote in your favor on these two items
when majority opinion is concerned."

Is this lattcr statement consistent with what one should expect from an un»
biased rules body? Should we not have the privilege of suggesting items for the
rules questionnaire?

"Personally, I am quite sure that you are fighting « losing fight on this parti-
cular issue (ball anc backboard) and one which is of no great importance."

Again, we should know what problems are of great importance to our group. Greater
than the mtter of the fom-shaped board and the molded ball is the need for SOI
DEFINITE POLICY IN ESTABLISHING THE TYPE OF EQUIPMENT TO B= USED IN THE COLLNGE
GAME. Must we alvays be adopting novelties such as the Baskeo-lite, the various
molded basketballs, the convex or flat surface fan-shaped bankboard, the 20"
diarter basket?

The wording of pertinent statements on the questionnaire in recent years have been
misleading. Quoting from the 1941 QUESTIONNAIRE OF THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL COM-
MITT EB: