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Thank you for your letter of the 23rd instant.
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inois High School Athletic Association, and a member of the Research
Committee, is interested in reducing the size of the backboard. Ie
fecls that a fen-shaped board would do as well as a larger sixby~
four bounds

The objection to the glass backboard is that
Rules Committee says that the boards shall be painted whites That
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FCAsAH Varsity Basketball Coach.