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INTRODUCTION

This monograph on basketball drills is the result
of a study of five years’ duration. The materials
have been compiled through the author’s experi-
ence as a player at Purdue University, as a mem-
ber of professional teams, as a high school official,
and as a high school and college coach.

In starting this collection the author was pri-
marily interested in improving his own methods
of teaching basketball by making practices more
diversified and interesting. It has since been used
as materials for teaching in the basketball course
in the teacher training work for the physical edu-
cation department at Earlham College. The in-
terest shown by these students and players and |
the insistence of friends has resulted in this
publication.

Some of the drills are original or partially orig-
inal. All have been tested thoroughly over a
period of time. Other drills are the favorites of
successful coaches who have permitted their use

’ here. To these men the author is deeply grate-
ful; the standards of our profession are dependent
on the contributions of its members.

BLAIR GULLION.