UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS NEWSLETTER —

Published weekly by the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Kansas.
rence, Kansas, May 31, 1919, under the act of August 24, 1912.

Admitted as second class matter at the postoffice at Law-
This number edited by W. A. Dill, Director of Publicity.

 

 

VOL. XXXVIII

LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 19, 1938

NO. 8

 

 

TO BASKETBALL COACHES AND PLAYERS

OF KANSAS AND NEIGHBORING

STATES:

You are invited to attend the annual ‘Basketball Clinic’ at the University
of Kansas, and the opening game of the season, with Missouri State Teachers

College of Warrensburg, Dec. 3, 1938.

‘Tom Scott, Warrensburg Coach, and

his team will assist in the demonstrations of the clinic, starting at 2:30 p.m.

The game is at 7:30.

FORREST C. ALLEN, Coach of Basketball.

High School Basketball Teams and Coaches
Invited to “Clinic” and Opening Game

HE annual “Basketball Clinic” will be given at the

University of Kansas December 3, 1938, with the
clinic proper at 2:30 in the afternoon, and the clinic
game, one with Missouri State Teachers College of
Warrensburg, in the evening at 7:30. |

Invitations have been sent to basketball coaches of
High Schools of Kansas and of neighboring states, in-
viting them to come and to bring their teams, to attend
the clinic and to be guests of the University manage-
ment at the opening game the same evening.

Dr. Forrest C. Allen, head of the physical educa-
tion department,
and _~ basketball
coach — in fact,
the dean of bas-
ketball coaches in
America —is ar-
ranging an after-
noon program
that will develop
many of the fine
points in basket-
ball playing and
coaching.

Basketball
Coach

 

DR. F. C. ALLEN

Tom Scott, who is coaching his first year at War-

 

rensburg, succeeding Tad Reid, will bring his team to
Lawrence, and will open the clinic program with these
demonstrations:

1 Ball-tipping practice.

2 Drill for enlarging periphereal vision.

3 Defensive practice in switching men when
screened out of the plays.

4 Drills for deception in under-basket shooting.

5 Dribbling, stopping, and pivoting drill.

This will take a half hour, to be followed by an-
other half hour by Dr. Allen and his men, demon-
strating:

1 Mass defense drill.

Mass offense drill.

Set offense against man-to-man defense.
Set offense against zone defense.

Fast break offensive.

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Following the team demonstrations two sets of film
will be shown. One will be the talkie showing tech-
niques of six American coaches; Carlson of Pittsburgh;
Keogan of Notre Dame, Bunn of Stanford, McMillan
of Minnesota, Bee of Long Island, and Allen of Kansas.
The other film, a silent, is the Eastman teaching film
prepared at the University of Kansas two years ago
under the direction of Dr. Allen.

At suitable times during the afternoon there will
be words of greeting from Chancellor E. H. Lindley

and from Gwinn Henry, director of athletics, and re-(yJ
marks by E. A. Thomas of Topeka, executive secre- _ ~
tary of the Kansas State High School Activities Asso- Te

ciation and a talk on officiating by E. C. Quigley, vet-
eran sports official of the nation.
Quigley and John Carmody are to officiate.

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