RAPS ALLEN’S CAGE PLAN

ELEVATING BASKETS TO TWELV
| FEET IS CALLED ABSURD.

Notre Dame Coach Says 10-Second
Rule Should Be Abolished if
an Improvement Is

‘ Sought.

Norre Dame, Inv. March 20.—
| Coach George Keogan of the Notre
[peme basket ball team brands as
absurd the pro-
posal of Coach
F. GC. (Phos)
Allen of Kansas
to elevate the
basket to twelve
feet in college
competition.

“This proposal
is as absurd as
the existing 10-
second rule,”
Keogan said
yesterday. “If
they want to
legislate against
big men, they
ee « Cal abolish the

“Phog” Allen, 10-second rule.
This rule has legislated the uninter-
| esting zone defense into basket ball.

“Big men now jam in under the
| basket. If the 10-second rule is
abolished, these big men will wear
| themselves out trying to follow the
'smaller men. The game will become
faster and more interesting. Four-
_ teen of the sixteen teams in the Indi-
“ana high school tournament used the
zone defense, and it was generally
agreed that this year’s tournament
‘was the least interesting in recent
years.”

Keogan rebonineaned that fouls in
the lower part of the court be not
charged against a player as far as
his ejection from the game is con-
_cerned, or that five fouls be allowed.
The player fouled should be, allowed
to take his free throw as under the
present rule. Keogan believes too
‘many good men are ejected from
'games for harmless fouls.

He also recommended that a large
‘circle be drawn outside the center
jump ring and that forwards and
guards be kept out of this circle until
|after the jump. “There is too much
jamming around the center circle
‘now, and it slows up the game. Such
a rule also would hurt big men,” he
said.

Koegan’s team won twenty of its
twenty-four games the last season.
All except one of his men were over
six feet tall. - :