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a new foneshaped backboard is legal where the home mana gement chooses to
stall it,

Since the rule in the book at this time read this way, most cozches interpreted Pe
meaning of this statement to be a test for opinion relative to "play on the ba:

beard by coaches who had not installed it for their games at home" an@ they were
willing to play for experimental purposes. Tying this statement up with the stote.
ment listed in the 1940 QUESTIONNAIRE OF THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL COMMITTER:

"Assuming that proper safeguards would be made against any sudden compulsory use
of equipment whose use would involve considerable expense, do you favor per-
mitting the optional use of:

(2) A flat surfaced backboard with several inches removed from the borcers and
with the upper edge circular,
(b) ** convex surfaced board with the shape as in (a),"

Is not the inconsistency of the wording evident? Reading further into the science
of research we must return to the 1941 QUESTIONNAIRE and the following statemont:

"Check below only if you ‘Coached, playec, officiated, or managed games on
courts with new type of bankboards:
(a) Prefer new type - 819
(b) Prefer old type - 196 "

 

 

 

Two factors are very evident in this statement. First, those who have gone to
their administrators for the money to buy this innovation will hesitate to cordemn
it even though they do not find it an improvement over the rectangular board.

Thesecond evident factor is that of the approximately 1900 high schools, colleges,
Yts, and others who answered the questionnaire, 1015 answered the above statement.

jnce less than 4000 sets of these boards were in use at tmt time, one might logi-
cally draw the conclusion that the questionnaires were mailed to a carefuliy
selecte? sampling of those schools favoring the new type of equipment.

Would not the schools using the rectangular equipment heve a perfect right to voice
their opinion regarding the faneshaped bankboard?

The tabulation of the results of the questionnaire by the chairman of the Question=
naire Committee is questionable; the total summary of the results are tabulated in
five sections as follows:
1. Atlantic Coast Area (New England States, Delaware, Maryland, New Jorsey,
Now York, Ponnsylvania, Virginia, Washingtor, D.C. and West Virginia)
2. Southern States (Alabam, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississivpi.
North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
3. Central States (Illinois, ee Kentucky, Michigan, Opio, Wisconsin)
4, Widwestern States (Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraskn, North Dakota,
South Dakota ) j
5, “Yestern States (Arizona, Califormia, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, N
Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
6. Canada

 

 

 

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How can ao N.C... representative determine the reiction of his district when the
research tabulations are scattered over three or more districts? Why was this
change in tabulation allowed by our N.C wi, representatives?