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INSTRUCTION April 5, 1940

 

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Phog:

Your wire received this morning. Replying to it, wish to say that my study
of your game reveals the following.

In the first half, Kansas had possession of the ball for ll min. 26 sec, In
the second half, they had possession of the ball 10 min. 20 sec.

In the first half, Kansas shot seven of ten fouls attempted. In the second
half, Kansas shot five of twelve attempted. This, of course, isn't a true
picture of what happened to the fouls in the second half, because

frequently Kansas took the ball out of bounds rather than attempting the
shot. Had Kansas attempted all the shots, there would have been fifteen
attempts, since Kansas was awarded two shots on two fouls in the second,half
plus an added technical. Kansas fouled Indiana but twice in the second half
and both fouls were made.

My remark to you that percentage basketball failed was on the basis that
Kansas was making a higher percentage of its fouls and making fewer fouls,
and controlling the ball for more than half the time.

In games studied prior to this, when those things occurred ~- namely, one
team controls the ball for more than half the time, shoots a higher
percentage of fouls attempted than its opponents, and makes fewer fouls
than its opponents ~- that team won the ball game.

My chart shows that in the second half, of the twelve called fouls on
Indiana, five were committed in the Kansas half of the floore In other
words, they were playing tremendously aggressive ball and were covering
your players under their own basket and in your own half of the floor.

In the second half, the two fouls committed by Kansas were apparently
because of location on the flooy committed offensively rather than defensive-
ly, although neither one was committed on an Indiana player within shooting
distance of Indiana's basket,

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