NATIONAL COLLEGIATE A. A. - NATIONAL FEDERATION H. S.A. A. - Y.M.C. A. - CANADIAN I. A U. and A. B. A.

NATIONAL BASKETBALL COMMITTEE
of the UNITED STATES and CANADA

CHAIRMEN OF SUB-COMMITTEES Vice CHAIRMAN, JOHN BUNN
Executive Publication Cuairman, H. H. SALMON, Jr. Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, Cal.
H. H. Satmon, Jr. Oswa.p Tower 40 Wall St., New York, N. Y. Treasurer, FLOYD A. ROWE
Research Questionnaire Secaatany, H. V. PORTER Board of Education, Cleveland, Ohio
Forrest C. ALLEN H. V. Porter 11 So. LaSalle St., Chicago, Illinois Epitor, OSWALD TOWER
Game Administration January 9, 1938 Andover, Massachusetts

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Complete List of Ls
Committee Members Mr. F. C. Allen ZT

F. C. Allen Univ. of Kansas yw
Univ. of Kansas \ k A
Lawrence, Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Vy a!

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New York, New York Dear Mr. Allen:

John Bunn

stants Caitornia «©9091 hope you will pardon the couple of days delay in my answer to your re-
J. H. Crocker cent letter. However, I note that your letter is dated January 9th, which

Univ. of Western Ontario ts today, so possibly no apology is necessary.

M. C. Cunningham
ee nit I am very much interested in your comments relative to the alternate black
Seven te Gill and white method of marking the lines and hope that further study will be

Connecticut State College
Storrs, Connecticut made

H. D. Edgren
forse Wiliams College Along with this, I think we might very well interest ourselves in a study
E. J. Hickox of lighting conditions. We have made recommendations relative to height of
Springfield College setts COLling, size of floor, etc., but no attention has officially been given
cis ma the matter of what constitutes proper floor lighting. It sans to me that
Dept. of Public Instruction it should be possible to determine what constitutes the most desirable amount
: and type of light for the basketball court. If there is some way of measuring

Wshorewood Hills this, a statement in the rule book would be very helpful.

Madison, Wisconsin

Centennary College I note your comment about the fan shaped backboard. We have many coaches

Curtis Parker

Shreveport, Louisiana = =§ iving consideration to this matter and some of them are still collecting
M11 So. LaSalle St. statistics. Of the various forms which were proposed, the fan shaped board
ee with the lower edges sloping upward seems to be the more popular type.

sad Ce edeeation Life Blagi@ Go not yet have enough statistics to warrant drawing definite conclusions
Toronto, Ont. Canada -yelative to the advantages end disadvantages but early returns and comments

a ee do indicate rather conclusively that from one-third to one-half of the
ao present board is practically useless. Within the next couple of months
J. W. St. Clair odist Univ, © nope to have enough statistics to indicate some of the advantages and dis-
Daten, Sone advantages of the proposed new shape.
H. H. Salmon, Jr. :
40 Wall St.
New York, New York Yours truly,
Oswald Tower
Andover, Massachusetts (y
Willard A. Witte
Univ. of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming ® Ht belew
Secretary

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