25 Sg oy December 14, 1987e and SQth of December « the 23rd for the Christmas program and the 50th for whatever program, musical or otherwise, that you see fit to uses Tt happens that I will not get back watilZ ee ee Our team leaves Des dues at 4 o'clock on the Rock Island Rocket and we will not into Kansas City umtil 9:30. So a high school, and a great basketball future 4s predicted for these hoyes They are fine students as well as fine athletes. The meubers of the ever«victorious team will be Ray Boling, Paul Rogers and Ray Noble, forwards; Milton Alien, center; and Pranois Keppelman, Fred Pralle and Wilmer Shaffer, guards. page capnstaer or psoas ts ahd gern Kansas, to see the varsity+frosh game on the night of Syd. After witnessing the spectacular game put up by freciuin,' Whee Gok Akiben relemned en Tabell started — ering to bad oreny might at © Gtaloens eee ‘i woe It showld be a great geme. The allestar ever- victorious end the allestar frosh game will be played immediately after the Kansas-Oklahoma games At the Kansas-lashburn game on January 4th the varsity and the B teams of Kansas will play the varsity and the B teams of Yashburme The 5 team game will follow the A toan oonmbest ee Very sincerely yours, Varsity Basketball Coach, POAgAH | Director of Physical Education . Office of PROGRAM DIRECTOR 109 Fraser Hall Central Standard Time id ir Pa a) 1220 Kilocycles oo ye BROADCASTING STATION OF Studio in Electrical Laboratory THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS November 9, 1937 Dr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas bem Dear Dre Allen: « In reply to your letter of November 5, I regret that our announcer made such an error in the official title introducing Dre He Le Chambers. You gave me the title correctly and I passed this informa- tion along. to our announcer. He informs me that he confused Dre Chambers title as Secretary of the Kansas State Medical Society with his past official position on the Board of Physical Education here at the University. Mr. Pinney joins me in expressing our regrets and assures. me that such an error will not happen againe I am writing to Dre Chambers extending both Mre Pinney'ts and my apologies. Thanking you for calling my attention to this error, I am Sincerely yours, 0 ER of ena Assistant Program Director. Allen Naisnith Allen Naismith Allen RADIO PROGRAM PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR HEALTH January 13, 1938 “THE TIP-LESS GAME OF BASKETBALL" Dre Naismith, I would like to ask you a questione After 45 years of starting your game of basketball with the center tip, the rules camittee last April eliminated the tip after field and foul goalse In your opinion, why did they do this? Well, in originating the game, after considerable thought as to how the ball would be put in play, the center tip seemed the only reasonable way of giving each side an equal chance of obtaining the ball, Now, the only objection that I ¢an see to it is that the tall player monopolizes the tip-off because of his height and the assistance of the referee who tosses it up in such @ manner that the tall man has a better chance of obtaining it than the short mane There are several ways in which this might have been corrected, Now that is my idea. Doctor, what is yours? You are on the Rules Committee, and attended the meeting in which the National Rules body voted it oute Why did they do this? Well, Dre Naismith, I find myself agreeing with you on the contor tip-off. I have always believed in it, I have always contended that in football we have tho kick off at the start of the gamos I feol that the tip-off at the start of the game of basketball, and aftor each goal, is just as vital because it tends to give both sides an cqual advantage. At the Rules mect~ ing I foumd myself in a vory great minority, and as is the habit with all of those committee gatherings, the minority goes along peaceably with the majority. I felt that if the majority desired it, it was only fair to give thom a chance without protesting violontly against it, I still think basketball has onough thrills for the spectators and the players in the tipless games I found mony of the rules-makers blaming all the ills of basketball on the tall man at tho tipsoff,. Really, I think that because the basket is only 10 foet from the floor that we are blaming a man for bo- ing too tall under a 10=foot basket, because thoso tall players can actually dunk the ball into the basket. Some of the tall playors can actually reach 8 inches above the baskete In my epinion, the goal should be out of reach of all playorse Well, the things you have said aro still not a sufficiont reason to mo to do away with a fair and spectacular method and substituto one that is less s06 Dre Naismith, I still agree with you 100 per cont, because it is the tall man that beats you under tho defensive or offensive baskot by reaching higher than his teammates in obtaining the ball, No player may pull his opponents' arms down when he has the ball in his possession, because that is holdinge But, Doctor, they blame that tall fellow tapping the ball in the ‘Neismi th Allon Naismith Allen Naismith Allen Naismith Allen Ze center of the court for all the ills of the past gamc, I have heard one of our own bosy, Coach Arthur "Duteh" Lonborg, of Northwestern University Bay many timos that ho found when his team had a short center and could not control tho tipeoff that in those vory yoars he had his scrappiest tcams,s Those boys with their apparcnt disadvantage had to fight harder than over to recover the ball aftcr the tipeoff. Well, Doctor, that is a good point. Now, another question =- is there ony other game in which there is not cither an cqual chones for the opponents to obtain the ball after a goal is made, or the defendants are compelled to.drive the ball into tho opponents ' territory? In the carly !90s in football the ball was givon to one side at the beginning of the game and after the goal was made, they were pommitted to attack instead of tho usual kick off, This lasted about two years, and then the ree turn to tho kick off was madce Dre Nodemdth do you think that the game of baskotball as now constituted has a similar opportunity? I am not sure as to that. If the game is better without the tipeoff certainly it will not return, Only time will tell about thate .We want the game to continuously make progresse Doctor, one critic in Indianapolis contended that you are still in the cra of the peachebasket stage, What would be your ro- action to such criticism as that? If I am in the peachebaskct stage it is because the lato rules. compel mc to be in that stagee In the carly days 10 men played the game in a 40 by 50 foot areca, and we gradually enlarged the ficld soas to get in sciontific playg But the rulcs since 1932 are now compelling 10 men to play in a space 45 by 50 fect which naturally brings in a lot of roughness as wo had in the peach basket stago, ond the centor tip is the only play that occupics the full courte ! Woll, Drs Noismith, this is a tribute to you when they talk about the penoh basket stago, because the basket idca was yours, and I would say that any idea that can enthrall’18 million people is a peach of an ideag But, scriously, Doctor, the proponents of the new rule state that this now rule has inereased the playing time about 7 minutese What do you say as to that? Do you think that is right? In the rule it specifically statcs that the ball is dead after a goal is made and play ceases, and how can you increase the playing time? You might decrease tho elapsed time, but you can't increase the playing timce That is exactly right, Doctore They have not increased the playing time one iota by rulee But they can actually play longer under this gome than they played under last year's gamco,. This is the roason: After a free throw or a ficld gonl was made the referee Ma, Rom tert Allen Naismith Allen Se tossed the ball up at center for the tipeoff,. By research it was determined that it took on an average about 10 seconds for the ball to be brought from the end line where the basket was made to the center at the time it was tossed up for the tip-off, and incidentally that 10 seconds gave the spectators time to catch thoir breath and their hearts to resume normaley after a thrilling scoroe Courting the nunber of field goals and free throws that were suecessfully made, ond multiplying this by 10 seconds, the total clapsed time during the progress of the game was 5 to 7 minutes. Had the time been declared out last yoar after field goals, the playing situation would have been identically the same as this ycare . gooording to the wording of the new rule, how can the game be speeded up on accoumt of the rules? Is it not in spite of tho.rules that the game has been specded up? Weil, now. Well, Doctor, sofar as the speeding up of the game is concerned, that is entirely up to the play of the two opposing teamse The so-oalled now rules have not been in’ the bocks long enough for the teams to get thoroughly adjusted,’ as yet. If the side scored upon really desires to delay the game, that side may hold the ball 5 seconds out of bounds by rule at the end line before they throw the ball in, and then they may take 10 seconds in addition before the players on that side are forced by the rule to cyvss the center linc of the court, or the division line. In other words, it is possible to withhold the ball from the offonsive court for 14 seconds after a goal is madee So you can see that they can play the slow broak just as well as they can play the fast broak, and personally I think that some smart team is going to try that. I noticed by Sumday's papor thot Iowa State used the slow broak against Kansas State and beat them 41 to 50_. So you sec, Doctor, all teams are not going in for this fire doparte ment basketball. In another year I predict that muny teams will be using the slow break and then you will have 5 seconds to pass the ball in from out of bounds and 10 seconds to get across; Thon after they got across they are going to uso a play that many people call “stall", and it will bo a dreary gari¢e Don't you think so? : Yes, I certainly agree with youe That is the real objection to the whole thing, and that has been and is my objection to the tipless center. It gives the team that has been scorod upon an opportunity to delay the gamee Well, thon, Doctor, who knows but what your prophecy, although you didn't prophesy you did indicate, that since the football rules wont back tothe kick off there may be a return to the conter tip- off in basketball in a year or twoe Don't you think there is a possibility of rotating the jumpers in basketball just as they have the batting order in baseball? The coaches could instruct their playcrs during practice, so it would be an casy matter to handle the game situatione. Naismith / Allen Naismith Allen Naismith Allen Noismith Allen- Naismith Allen 4e And another thing, Dr. Allen « if there ws a deviation from this practice by any one team, the opponent would quickly recognize it and call it to the attention of the referce. Why, certainly they would. No difficulty would be encowmterod in this regarde But, Doctor, I see that our time is fast drawing to a closee But wait a minute - at least we have time for another question, haven't we? Sure lye A great deal has been séfid about the Enjurious effects of the fast break, especially in league games among jumior high schoolse Don't you think that they are putting too much stress upon the contest rather than upon the recreative sport and educational factors for the young boys? Yes, Doctor, Instances of this have come up often in the National Rules discussione I remember distinctly that Floyd Rowe, dir- ector of physical education of the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, submitted o research finding that was done in Clevelande This research showed that organized league competition actually effected the nervous system of these boys to such an extent that the normal growth was influenced. One group was taken with no special emphasis upon league play and the other group indulged in regular league competition, According to the findings in Cleveland, the regular league competition was very detrimental to high school boys under the old rule, and wmder the new rule the stronuosity of the game would be increased. I am sure that the authorities who are making surveys would certainly Be against this new game on that principles Well, now, isn't this league contest a strain upon the nervous system rather than upon the muscular? And for my part, I think that it would be very much better to limit the league playing or the interscholastic competition in the junior high schools, Yes, Doctor, you have hit the nail right on the head, because isn't it true that the nervous system controls the glandular system, and the glandular system determines the growth of the individual? That is my idea of ite By the way, we have Nelson Sullivan, our sports ammouncer atop Mt. Oreade Sully, you tell the wide world the news, will you?