might get inte some home game Ta hate anenom mona
taken on @ trip, ‘Therefore this rule is discouraging the number of
students who indulge in physical exercise rather than encouraging them to do soe

Further than this, the Big-Six this year cut the allowable mumber of games
from 20 to 18, while the BigeTen, the larger organization that the Mg-Six was
patterned after, has for years permitted their schools to compete in 20 games. Again,
instead of allowing greater athletic participationyg they are curtailing ite

Basketball does not incur & deficit, Om the other hand a tidy
net profit above equipment and coaching expenses is ageured, Consequently, the
game economies that might be practiced in a sport showing a deficit would not
necessarily be imperative here,

Summing up all the legislation that has happened in the last yoar, it
seems as if thore is discouragement in physical participation and also a definite
danger to the health in the legislation made in regard to basketball mmbera and
rarticipations eo

At the present time I find myself absolutely unable to pick the first
men that will make the trip to Norman, Influenza riddled ow’ squad on the e
trip and wo have at the present time three or four men definitely weakened fran the
effects of fue Therefore, it is necessary to take a larger squad on account of this
dllness than the rules permit, and with the beginning of the seeson and an inexe
perienced squad I find timt thie rule definitely works a handicap, Of course, we
will the rules, although I think they wore discriminatory and not thought
out fully, especially when we consider the health and welfmre of our boyse

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