NATIONAL BASKETBALL RULES COMMITTEE

March 6, 1945

Mr. Phog Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kanaas

Gent lemen:

The questionnaires are just beginning to return and there seems to
be a rather universal acceptance of the rule changes made by the
‘committee last year.

One exception to this universal acceptance seems to be the five
personal fouls. There are a number of the returned questionnaires
on which the rather emphatic statement is made that the five per-
sonal fouls has increased the roughness of the game. While a large
majority of returns as indicated above show acceptance of the change
still I thought it might be worthwhile to get some statistics on
this one point.

For that reason will you kindly check back through scores for last

year and this year and send in at your very earliest convenience, the
following bit of statistical evidence for the use of the rules commit-
tee, naturally the number of games and whether or not the games are
tournament games would have some bearing on the validity of the returns.

What we want is the average number of fouls called per game in the
season 1943-44 and the average number of fouls called per game in the
season 1944-45. Kindly give information also as to the number of
games as well as the average number offouls and indicate whether these
games were tournament games or regularly scheduled games. This infor-
mation will be of use to the rules committee. Thank you for your
cooperation.

Very truly yours,

Floyd A. Rowe
Chairman
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