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its dowmward arc." This suggested change is very inadequete and will not
do the job. Most shots for goals do not have a high arch. The ball leaves
the player's hands from a height of 5 to 5s feet. The basket height at
present is 10 feet. Most shooters use a low are on their shots, bare ly
skimming over the rim. Hence it would still be possible for 7 ft. goal
tenders to block shots before the ball gets over the cylinder of the
basket. This tall chap by moving to either side or to the front of the
basket could easily intercept 80 per cent of offensive basket shots before
they reach the plane of the basket. It would be necessary for offensive
players to use an entirely different arch ese, much higher than is
ordinarily used, to arch the ball high enough to get over this altitudinous
pier: It is doubly dierionit to teach players to change to a high arch
shot when they have been accustomed to the ordinary low, skimming shot.
This would be done only for the purpose of clearing the ball over the sky-
scraping goal tender. :

It is my observation that these coaches who are raising the
loudest hue and cry ageinst goal tending are the coaches who do not have
at the present time an site wudtsione center. They want the rule aieiuke
goal tending inserted because they have no goal tenders, ihen these certain
coaches previously had goal tenders they could not be interested in the rule
changes that abe being discussed today.

Let's not make a rule that will affect the players now in the
game, but let any proposed rule become effective three years from the time
that the same is put into effect. Such a rule will be fair for everybody
concerned and will not be construed as striking at an altitudinous player
now, in the game, That is why I say that the rules should be frozen for a

period-of time to permit the research conmittee to do some fact finding,

rather than ruling on opinions of coaches who have not tried out certain