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The definition of research, according to Webster, is Me searching
for something, especially with care and diligence; careful or critical
examination in seeking facts or principles." I would suggest that the
present basketball rules should be frozen for a three-year period. And
that a competent research:committee of basketball specialists be appointed,
“This committee, should receive adequate compensation for their services sO
that they seule be held accountable to the same degree they are given authority
and compensation. There are very few competent college coaches who would
make good research men because their search is for taller players rather than
for finding the facts ical rules of ‘the Game.

Many college coaches ve thinking more of the financial income of
the game than ‘they are in improving the game. Some of these fellows endorse
watches, pos tun or bananas in their spare time rather than spending their
effort in finding the answer to goal-tending, out of bound plays, unlimited
substitution, or the effect of fatigue upon players under varying conditions,
Most of the efficient researchers are high school executives and school
officials. ‘The college exesubives ana coaches of the N.C.A.A. haven't done
any real baskathe’: research for years, They played lightly with the tern
"basketball research", The big time college coaches are more concerned with
tall players than they are with tall baskets. I challenge their research
committee to show one instance of constructive research done in the past ten
yearse

Some coaches at the present time are much concerned over goal
tending. Their contention is that tall pines wat Hic ball away from the
basket before it enters the same. They Circoes a rule which provides "that

of awarding a field goal when a defensive player touches a try for goal

above the level of the cylinder of the basket or if the ball has started