6 3 i fed i iagaetyizal ly ayyytecl gy i “ih ae tt ae ia pl de Hie be ih Ha [ fay . ad j i if: a ey 8 We + fe i uit ait it Hp ii enn Tae a ay . rh 2438 nt : 4 a TIE stad An Ui . ti SoHE Ln 343 ap abd; A hee . Had33 sik ft al iff Hate Ha ila EI I have laid aside your questionnaire until I could have time to study it due to so many out of town activities. I. find attached to your questionnaire another questionnaire on training and conditioning of college basketball players. Is this yours, or is it a questionnaire from another source that might have become attached to yours? Will you kindly let me know, and if it is yours I will fill it owt. If it is not, I have no means of identifying it and I will relegate it to the wastebasket. With all good wishes to you and your co-laborers, I em j Very sincerely yours, | Director of Physical Education and Recreation, FCAAH Varsity Basketball Coach. 10. Te COLLEGF BASKFTBALL COACHFS OF AMERICA From The Fastern College Basketball Coaches Association In an effort to obtain completely accurate data as to coaches! preferences in such vital items of playing equipment as backboards and bells, this questionnaire is being mailed to every college basketball coach in the country. ‘The National Basketball Rules Committce recently urged rapid transition to the patented fan-shaped backboard and moulded ball with a view to making these imple- ments the sole official equipment in the near future. | This questionnaire is for no other purpose than to determine whether such a radical and hasty change is desirable, anc whether it is in accorc with the wishes of a majority of the. college coaches. , Information compiled from the questionnaire will be submitted to the board of directors of the Netional Association of Basketball Couches anc to the National Basketball Rules Committee for their guidance. Please fill out the questionnaire and mail it to me at your earliest convenience. U.S. Military Academy President, astern College Basketball Coaches Ass'n, PLYAS” 3! PROMPT March 1, 1938. Mee Oswald Towor, Andover, MaASSe Dear Oss shal A se ie NM iia! Director of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coache not baskets fer I would like desire to present it CHANGES IN THE BASKETBALL RULES - 1941-42 The fan-shaped backboard has been adopted as the official backboard. General specifications are given in this Rule. Rule 4. Section 1, Note 2 --The molded type of ball is recommended because of its aperiority to other types with respect to shape, reaction and durability. Rule 5. Section 3 --It is legal to make a substitution whenever the ball is dead. The effect of this change is to make it possible for a substitute to enter the game after a field goal. In other respects the substitution rule is the same as it wes last year. Rule 8. Section 5: Rule 13 --Sections 6 and 7 --These sections have been modified to clarify the procedure when a foul by one team is followed before time is in by another foul by either team. One change should be noted: if a pere sonal foul is followed before time is in by a technical foul by the same team, the throw for the technical foul is attempted last; that is, free throws are attempted in the order in which the fouls are called. Rule 10. Section 1 and Note --This section has been amplified and in cludes some of the provisions formerly found in Rule 7, Section 2. The first Note describes the use of the tree- foot restraining line when the space out-of-bounds is limit and if a restraining line has not been drawn, an imaginary line should be used. Rule 14. Section 11 --The three-seconds lane restriction applies only to that part of the free throw lane between the free throw 1 and the end line. If a player is touching the free throw line while the ball is in play and in control of his team he subject to this restriction; but if he is touching the floor only in the outer half of the circle, with or without the ba: he is not subject to it. Rule 15. Section 2 --Several specific acts of unsportsmanlike conduct are listed in this section. ; Rule 15. Section 11, Penalty --The wording and structure of (b), (c) and (d) have been changed slightly. ave /§ Lawrence, Kansas September 27, 1958 Dre John Brown, 547 Madison Avee, New York City, NY. Dear Dire Browns In reply to your good letter of the 2lst instant I am mailing you five questions based on the new rules which I feel are all fundamental questions. Perhaps these have been covered by others who have written in, but I an trusting that some of them will not be repeatersse With all good wishes to you, I am Sincerely yours, Diréetor of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coache NATIONAL COLLEGIATE A. A. - NATIONAL FEDERATION H. S.A. A. - Y.M.C.A. - CANADIAN I. A U. and A. B. A. NATIONAL BASKETBALL COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN OF SUB-COMMITTEES Executive Publication H. H. Satmon, Jr. Oswatp TOWER Research Questionnaire Forrest C. ALLEN H. V. Porter Game Administration Sumner A. Dote Complete List of Committee Members F. C. Allen Univ. of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas John Brown 847 Madison Ave. New York, New York John Bunn Stanford Univ. Palo Alto, California J. H. Crocker Univ. of Western Ontario London, Ont., Canada M. C. Cunningham High School Desloge, Missouri Sumner A. Dole Connecticut State College Storrs, Connecticut H. D. Edgren George Williams College Chicago, Illinois E. J. Hickox Springfield College Springfield, Massachusetts Frank P. Maguire Dept. of Public Instruction Harrisburg, Pennsylvania W. E. Meanwell Shorewood Hills Madison, Wisconsin Curtis Parker Centennary College Shreveport, Louisiana H. V. Porter 11 So. LaSalle St. Chicago, Illinois Samuel Rogers 210 Confederation Life Bldg. Toronto, Ont., Canada Floyd A. Rowe Board of Education Cleveland, Ohio J. W. St. Clair Southern Methodist Univ. Dallas, Texas H. H. Salmon, Jr. 40 Wall St. New York, New York Oswald Tower Andover, Massachusetts Willard A. Witte Univ. of Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming of the UNITED STATES and CANADA Vice CHaiRMAN, JOHN BUNN Crammer, H. 4. SALMON, Ja. Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, Cal. 40 Wall St.. New York, N. Y. Treasurer, FLOYD A. ROWE Secrstany, H. V. PORTER Board of Education, Cleveland, Ohio Il So. LaSalle St., Chicago, Illinois Epitor OSWALD TOWER Andover, Massachusetts September 21, 1938. Dr. Forrest C. Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Dr. Allen: It. is time to set up the first basketball examination of the season for distribution among the officials, and I need your help. Will you please send me five questions, based on the new rules, that I may submit to Oswald Tower for his compilation of the examination. Do not use "tricky" questions. May I have these at an early date? Your cooperation in this matter will be appreciated. Cordially yours, JBUrGs,. le Ze Se 4e Please explain the new mrkings on the basketball court as they apply in their relationship to the end line and the baskets Is this ehange optional or mandatory? . oo Pete on no substitution after a field goale | Flesge desiinte tho locations on the court et which all jump balls are put in plays What is necessary for a collegé teen desiring to play in quarters to do to accomplish their purpose? What is the length of intermission between the first two quarters and the second two quarters? Please explain the new three second rule as it applies to nonpossession as well as to possession of the ball in the free throw circle when the player stands in the outer half of his free throw circles Lawrence, Kansas September 27, 1938 xe Oswald Tower, Andover, Masse Dear Mi, Towers I wonder if you would be kind enough to send me three or four extra copies of the printed changes in the Basketball Rules which go into effect in the 193839 seasome I shall appreciate it if you can do this for me. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. ‘FOAsAH NATIONAL BASKETBALL COMMITTEE of the UNITED STATES and CANADA The following is a synopsis of the changes in the Basketball Rules which will go into effect in the season 1938-9, 1, 10. End lines may be four feet, instead of two feet, behind the face of the backboards. This is an optional change for those who desire to adopt it and whose courts will permit it. For players below senior high school age the minimum circumference of the ball is to be 29 inches. For older players the minimum circumference continues to be 2914 inches. The maximum circumference for all balls is to be 30 inches instead of 3014 inches. Substitutions are not to be permitted in the interval following a goal and putting the ball into play from out of bounds unless a charged time-out or time-out for injury has been declared. It is still legal, however, for either team to take a charged time-out after a goal. By agreement between teams, or by league or conference ruling, games between teams above the high school age may be played in quarters. The intermission between the first two quarters, the second two quarters, and prior to each overtime period, is to be two minutes. This applies to all games which are played in quarters. By mutual agreement, in games between teams of high school age and younger, an official’s time-out may be taken in the second and fourth quarter provided there has not been a time-out for either team during the first four minutes of that quarter. This time-out is to be taken the first time the ball is dead after four minutes have expired, and is to be of two minutes duration. In games between teams of high school age and younger, the “sudden death” method of deciding tie games is to be applied to the first overtime period. The intermission prior to this period is to be two minutes, during which teams may not leave the court. The first team to score two points in the first overtime period wins the game. If neither team scores two points, but if one team has scored one point by the end of the three-minute overtime period, that team wins the game. If neither team scores in the first overtime period, additional periods may be played under the same conditions. All jump balls must take place at least six feet from the nearest boundary line; that is, the jump ball rule applied to the side-lines last year now applies also to the end-lines. The rule which forbids a player to be in his free throw lane for more than three seconds is not to apply to a player who is in the half of his free throw circle nearer the center provided he does not have possession of the ball. In other words, a player without the ball may stand in the outer half of his free throw circle indefinitely, but as soon as he gets the ball he is subject to the three-seconds rule. If he is touching the free throw line he is not in the outer half of the circle. All teams may take five charged time-out periods and they are to be notified by an official when they have taken their fifth time-out. Additional time-outs may be taken at the expense of a technical foul for each time-out, and these may be taken even though there is no injury or other emergency. Failure of an official to notify a team that it has taken its fifth time-out does not prevent calling a foul if a sixth time-out is taken. If a player in possession of the ball is touching or straddling the division line he is to be considered in the back court regardless of the direction from which the ball comes to him. If he dribbles the ball from the back court, the ten-seconds count continues as long as he is touching the floor on or behind the line. If he dribbles the ball from the front court, he is considered to be in the back court as soon as he touches or straddles the line, just as last year. If he receives a pass while touching or straddling the line, the foregoing applies in the same way. Under this new ruling there is one fact to bear in mind: on the line ts in the back court. If the ball is in the air on a try for goal when the signal sounds to end a period, subsequent touching of the ball by a teammate of the thrower nullifies the goal; but if such touching is done by a defensive player, the goal counts if made. Prepared for the National Basketball Committee by Oswald Tower, Editor. Andover, Massachusetts, April 25, 1938. Enacted at Chicago, Illinois, April 5-6, 1938 Sensiled Prenk P, re Member, Rules Committee This is only a preliminary synopsis of the most significant revisions end changes in the basketball rules for 1938-1939, No attempt has been made to properly word any of the revisions or changes. For the Official context consult your rule book when issued, ls Be 4. Se 66 V6 8. ‘ The Rules Committee voted to legelize a court marking which will place the end lines four feet behind the plane of the backboard for those who have the space end inclination to use such markings, The four-foot space is not to be procured by moving the backboards in, unless the floor is now larger than. wlateme dimension. The Cehéwnnes between the minimum and meximum size of the ball has been reduced from % to § of an ineh. It was voted to make the size specifications for basketballs as follows? Minimum circumference 29 inches for participants below senior high school age and 29 1/2 inches for others} maximum circumference 30 inches, No substitution will be permitted during the intervel which follows a score unless there is a charged time out or a time out for an injury; This is intended to correct an | ying practice of last seasons It wes voted thet in case the bell is in the air on a try for goel when the gun sounds to end « period, subsequent touching of the ball by a teammate of the thrower will constitute the end of the play. However, such touching or deflecting by a defensive player will not nullify a goal whieh may be scored following the touching, . By mutual agreement between college teams or by conference or Salih ruling any college game may be played in quartersi In such cases the administration will be the same as thet which is now prescribed for high school. games. In games between contestants below college age a referee's time