Help
for Phog

Most Coaches Say
Ruies Are O. .K |

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whose teams have finished last}
in the Southwest conference the |
last five years, “Leave the rules |
alone—I can’t think of’ any
changes that would help us!” -

Allen does not stand absolutely |
alone in his amazing plan to par- |
tition off part of the court. Ken}
Loeffler of Yale would mark off a
semicircle with a 14-foot diameter |
under ‘the baskets. No. player |
would be permitted to enter this
“no man’s land” until’ the ball |
had touched the hoop or the bank- |
boards, and then only for about.
three seconds.

Big Ten Is Satisfied

Diametrically opposed to those
“left wingers” was the report of
Coach Harold G. Olson of Ohio
State: f

“A questionnaire sent to coaches
in all this area, including Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Min-
nesota, Michigan, Kentucky, ,West
Virginia and Pennsylvania, shows
that the coaches are well satis-
fied with the rules as they stand.
We feel we have a game full of

.| spectator’ interest, and we want
to keep it that way.”

There were some minor sugges-
tions that may be incorporated
into new rules. Hank Crisp of
Alabama and Dutch Lonberg of
Northwestern think the game
should be slowed up. Stanfield

| Hitt of Mississippi State believes
the out-of-bounds line should be
four feet back of the basket in-
stead of two.
No Evidence of Harm

Nibs. Price of California and
Everett Dean of Stanford find
fault with ‘the rule which permits
a fouled player to refuse the free
throw and take the ball out of
bounds. George Edwards of. Mis-
souri would increase the size of
the hoops.

From William “Bill” Bernlohr,
athletic director at Capital uni-
versity, Columbus, O., and presi-
dent of the coaches’ association of
the 20-school Ohio conference,
comes this reassuring note:

“Some coaches feel the game is)
too fast and might prove harmful |
to the boys. But, so far as we can
find, there has been no obective
evidence that the game is harm-
ful.7