glee F7-6- 44659 7 feo SEATING CAPACITY HOCH AUDITORIUM FOR BASKET BALL Main Floor 1290 Stage 816 First Balcony 827 Top Baleony | 568 3501 Approx. 500 of the top balcony and 75 on main floor and first baleony do not Bive view of but one-half of the playing court 575 Seats that give good view 4000 students to seat in 3000 seats if they all wanted to go to the same game, To the Officers of the National Basket- ball Committee of the U.S. and Canada Gentile men: The writer desires to report on the increasing num- per of tall players in intercollegiate basket ball this past year. Whereas players six feet five were rare a few years ago, they are now common. Now the player who is six feet ten is not so uncommon. This increase in average height is due to the con- stant search for tall players, and the encouragement to become basket ball players offered boys who have not had any particular liking for the game. Even in junior high schools, the extra tall boy finds a source of satisfaction in being able to capitalize on his height, and does so. For several years, I have advocated that the baskets be placed 12 feet instead of 10 feet from the floor, making all players - tall or short - perform the same scoring act, shooting for the basket rather than having the extremely tall man hover over the basket and either tip the ball in or dunk the ball into the basket. By having the higher basket the are of disbursement or rebound of the ball comes further out on the court, making it extremely difficult for a husky, altitudinous guard to block op- ponents away from the basket and still capture the rebound. Much research work has been done by using the 12 ft. basket placed 4 ft. inside of the end-line. This arrangement strikes hard at the zone defense because a guard is utterly useless camping underneath a 12 ft. basket. As a matter of fact a forward under a 12 ft. basket is in the poorest scoring position of any player on the floor. The writer is not promoting unduly a 12 ft. basket for this year but he desires to have the Rules Body scan the fol- lowing list of tall college and university players who are now playing this year, with a view of looking far enough into the future to find the six-six and six-seven basket ball player a very common occurence. Kansas had a player playing in his second year this past season who not being an adept at scoring was placed under the opponent's basket. Anyordinary arch shot that did not strike the backboard for a rebound could be either captured or batted away from the opponent's basket. #2 Nat'l Basketball Committee of the U.S. and Canada It is the writers hope that the Rules Committee will encourage by the printed or written page the use of a higher basket as a research problem. Doubtless there are members of — the Rules Body assembled who can from their memories add to this large list of extremely tall players. 6 tt. & in, 6 ft. 4% in. Neyland Tulane Berry — N.C. State Borries Wash. & Lee Jordan Geo. Tech. Guynes So. Methodist Schaefer Georgetown College Hamilton Arkansas Thompson Kentucky C.Benson Hardin-Simmons Estes Alabama Fore U. of Idaho, So. Morris Wake Forest Branch Yarbro N.Tex. St. Techs. Pederson West. States College Dewell So. Methodist Robertson Greeley State Hays Arkansas Goza Arkansas Brodie Arkansas Stoafan Stanford — Hedman | San Fran. Univ. S.Anderson St. Marys J.Ball Us Ge tue De French Colo. State Simmons Colo. Univ. Gunning Oklahoma Poppenhouse Kans. State K. Brown ' Missouri Baxter Nebraska Dohrmann Nebraska . Sorenson Nebraska 7 6 ft. 5 in, 6 ft. St in, Abbitt Virginia Groves Kansas State Kirkpatrick Baylor Thomson Iowa State E.Nelson Santa Clara Kewak UV. &. Ge C. Spencer Sam Houston 6 ft. 5 3/4 in. Babcock Denver Univ. Wade Utah State Scroggins _ Hardin-Simmons Ebaugh Nebraska #3 Nat'l Basketball Committee of the U.S. and Canada 6 £t. 6 in. | 6 ft. 6 3/4 ins Farren Georgia | McCrocklin West Ky. Tchrs. Nelson Nebraska Sneed Alabama 7. Connor E.Tex.St. Tehrs. Mabry Texas Chris. Dudis Dartmouth Novak Notre Dame 6 ft. 7 in, : 6 fe. Fe ie, Spessard Wash. & Lee Amundsen Chicago Ro. Glover -Hardin-Simmons Walsh Iowa Wellhausen Kansas D.Brookfield Missouri Sonderman Syracuse 6 ft. & in, | g ft. 9 im, Freiberger Tex. A.&iM. Gee Michigan Fechtman Indiana Nowak Loyola (Chicago) Troutwein Warrensburg : Childs : Utah | 6 <&. 10 in. 6 ft. ii in, (center) Canasius College/ Melvin Owens, Ike Howell N.W. Mo.St. Tehrs./ Ariz.St.Tchrs., Maryville Tempe, Ariz. «Levis Laister Illinois College/ Ex-college stars now playing in the National A.A.U. Tournament in Denver include the following: Shackelford West Tex. Teachers & ft. 9 in, Bob Gruenig (Denver Safeway) 6 ft. @ in. 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Mesch, Forward ( " SECOND TEAM Martin, Guard and Captain Harp, Guard Sehmidt, Center Harvey, Forward Wesche, Forward HONORABLE MENTION Burns, Forward Amen Ebling Mullen ) Klimek Cleveland Halstead Lobsiger Welie> ) Oklae Kanse Kanse Moe Ke State Ke State Nebre Kans e Okla. Ke gState a 5 Missouri , bi Oklahoma Basketball Resilience Tests The 1987-88 basketball rules will provide that the legality of a basketball will be determined by its bouncing reaction. A simple way to determine this reaction is to drop the ball from about head height and observe the percentage of rebound. This method has been in common use in connection with handball and tennis. It is a common practice for a handball player to test balls in this fashion before each con- test. If the ball appears te have low rebounding qualities, it is thrown out. In the case of a basketball, most of this testing must be done at the factory. Each ball manufacturer will test the ball to determine the air pressure at which the required reaction will be secured. The ball will then be stamped with the air pressure which will make the ball legal. As far as the school is concerned it will only be necessary for them to inflate the ball at the stamped pressure. However, if rough tests should be desired by any coach, he may make these tests by dropping a ball from a height of six feet and observing the height of the rebound. In order to determine the optimum bouncing re- actien extensive tests have recently been made. In these tests, balls made by various manufacturers were used. The general method was to arrange a platform six feet above a solid wood floor. Each ball was then dropped a great number of times and the height of the rebound was measured. It is obvious that some spots on a ball have greater resilience than others. This is especially true of balls whose panels are sewed together. At the poles of such a ball there are five heavy seams which come together in a small circle. In addition there are four thick- nesses of lining at such a circle. The mechanics of making the sewed ball are such that it is impossible to eliminate this deadening factor. Hence when a ball strikes on a pole, its bouncing reaction is con- siderably less than when it strikes on some other part of the surface. Likewise the ball is slightly deadened if it strikes on a seam. The spot of great- est resilience is the middle of a panel, Because of these facts it has been found that a considerable tolerance must be allowed between minimum and maximum resilience if balls of the sewed type are to remain legal. It will be noted that this tolerance is considerably less for the molded basketballs which have no heavy seams and which have no particular dead spot. Data secured from one of these series of tests are shown in the following table: TESTS TO DETERMINE RESILIENCE OF BASKETBALLS G1 $1 Wi w2 G.W. D Wi Ss R Ww2 Laced Laced | Laceless | Laced | Laceless | Laced Laced — Molded | Molded | Molded omp. Leather (Resilience Percentage at 13 POUNDS PRESSURE) Minimum Rebound | 60.5% | 54.3% 52.9% 54.2% 54.2% 56.0% 61.5% 65.4% 71.0% 69.6% 63.9% Maximum Rebeund | 64.7% 63.8% 59.8% 65.4% 58.2% 65.2% 65.5% 69.6% 72.1% 72.3% 64.2% (Resilience Percentage at 10 POUNDS PRESSURE) Minimum Rebound 64.0% 71.0% 66.1% 59.4% Maximum Rebound 66.1% 72.3% 68.1% 59.6% (Resilience Percentage at 8 POUNDS PRESSURE) Mii Rel mad 57.0% 65.3% 64.0% Maximum Rebound 60.4% 68.1% 65.4% The above table should be interpreted as follows: When the G1 laced ball, listed in the first column. was inflated to 18 pounds pressure and dropped from a height of six feet it rebounded 60.5% of this height when it struck on its least resilient spot (probably a pole) and it rebounded 64.7% of this height when it struck on its most resilient spot. Another illustra- tion is: When the W2 molded leather ball was in- flated to 18 pounds pressure and was dropped from a height of six feet it rebounded 63.9% of that height when it struck on its spot of least resilience and it rebounded 64.2% when it struck on its spot of greatest resilience. When this same ball was inflated to a pressure of 10 pounds its bouncing reaction ranged from 59.4% to 59.6%. _ It will be noted that the tolerance for the molded ball need not be greater than approximately one per- cent while the tolerance for the sewed ball must be 11 percent if present balls are to remain legal. If it is assumed that the optimum resilience of a ball is approximately 60% most of the present sewed balls should be inflated at a pressure of approximate- ly 12 pounds (at least less than 13) and the various types of molded balls should be inflated to a pressure ranging from approximately 7 pounds to 10 pounds. = Through these and similar tests the National Bas- ketball Committee hopes to arrive at what is con- sidered the best reaction of a ball. During the first year, the tolerance which will be permitted will be great in order that no present top grade official ball will be made illegal provided the proper air pressure is used. It is quite probable that this tolerance will be gradually reduced so that there will be a narrow range in the bouncing reaction regardless of the spot on which it happens to strike the floor or backboard. It sheuld be noted that in making a resilience test, if the ball is dropped from a height such that its lower surface is six feet above the floor, then the re- bound should be measured to the lower surface. Probably the rules will deal in linear measure rather than percentages and for ease of testing these meas- urements may be made from the bottom of the ball when it is dropped and to the top of the ball on the rebound. This is because the height from which it is dropped is above the level of the eye and the rebound is always below the level of the eye. It would be easy to correlate such figures with the percentages given in the table above by merely adding 9 inches (the diameter of the ball) to the linear figures. (Reprint from May, 1937 Issue of Illinois High School Athlete) Feeling perhaps that you would be interested in the group academic standing of the pasketball team for the past two semesters, with pardonable pride I am sending you a copy of the personnel of the basketball group with grades. | Be I am especially proud of Dietrich, the two Johnsons, Kappelman, Schmidt, and Voran for their academic excellence. You will notice also that not a single boy of the thirty-one players failed in a single hour the two preceding semesters. “incerely yours, Director of Physical Education, fal al & ee a 2 Re ” . aS ARRaRAERREARA HA RHRARATAS oak ahweeHenRr Rw we oR Ao Ba 2 « @ evwkhe = =. 2 8