Coaches To Vote On Possession Rule
NEW YORK—(U.P.)—College basketball has more politicians than Tammany Hall and a hard core of defense-minded, possession-play coaches can be expected today to block a new attempt to appropriate the professional 24-second rule for the collegiate game.
Yale's Howard Hobson spearheaded the new push when he asserted that the "pro rule has been a fine thing." Its adoption will be the big issue 'at this year's rules meeting, he admitted, and it "has a good chance."
Two Schisms In Coaching The answer is that there are two schisms in coaching. Call it the defense-minded against the offense-minded. Or call it the "country" coaches against the "big city" coaches who have seen the success of the pro brand of play and ache to copy it.
There is no attempt by the city boys to "slicker" the fellows from the hinterlands. But the rural tutors look at it that way and there seems some basis for the accusation that they are guilty of a certain narrowness when they frown on anything born of professional ingenuity as a taint to the purity of their game.
Two Schisms In Coaching
Thus they banded together, under the banner of such as defense-minded Hank Iba of Oklahoma A&A,M and killed the adoption of the 24-second rule last year. And they'll probably do it again.
Would Kill Stalling
All of which probably is wishful thinking.
Hobson, sounding the progressive slogan that the 24-second time limit on possession would provide a faster game and help kill stalling, has another suggestion which is so novel that it probably won't even get a hearing.
He would like to see three points given for a basket scored from outside 24 feet.
"Only one-ninth of the total scoring is done from outside that area," he explains. "Even if we install the 24-second rule, the zone still could be used unless we give a premium on long shots and make the defense come out of the zone to stop them."
"Making a long field goal worth three points would kill the deadening zone defenses," he insists. "It would make for a faster game, make the defense come out and, as result, allow more space for drive-in shots."
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Dillard To Seek 3rd Olympic Berth
CLEVELAND, Ohio,—(U.P.)—Harrison "Bones" Dillard, 1955 Sullivan Award winner, is about to start a new winter track campaign which he hopes will win him a third consecutive berth on the U. S. Olympic team.
"I don't mind saying that I want to be in the Olympics again this year," said the 32-year-old Dillard. "But it takes more than just a wish. There's a lot of work to be done in order to make the team.
"It all depends upon how I do in competition this winter. If I do good, fine. If not, I think I should quit."
HAVANA, Cuba (U.P.)—Kid Gavilan said today he is confident he will undefeated Peter Waterman of England in their bout at London, Feb. 7. "I'm in top form right now," said the former world welterweight champion.
If Dillard should win a place on this year's Olympic team and win another gold medal at Melbourne, he will join Finland's immortal Paavo Nurmi as the only athletes who ever have won championships in three separate Olympic classics.
East Team Drills
Gavilan Is Confident
LOS ANGELES—(U.P.)-Eddie Lebaron of the Washington Redskins and Adrian Burk of the Philadelphia Eagles turn turs directing the East squad yesterday in a practice drill for Sunday's annual Pro Bowl game.
April 17 has been chosen as the opening date for the 1956 season of the American Association baseball league.
Mangrum headed for Pebble Beach and the Bing Crosby Clamake, with $6,000 for winning the $30,000 Los Angeles open yesterday.
LOS ANGELES—(U. P.)—With the "most satisfying" victory of his long and brilliant career, lanky Lloyd Mangrum today faced a full campaign on the touring pro circuit—health permitting.
Lloyd Mangrum Wins $6,000 In LA Open
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Big Ten Race Undergoes Another Major Shakeup
By UNITED PRESS
That crazy, mixed-up Big Ten basketball race, where the form chart has been just a joke sheet, took another dizzy spin today as a result of two more upsets and this time streaking Illinois came out on top.
Illini Lead League
Indiana, ranked No. 6 nationally, and Purdue had been tied for the top spot but both were major upset victims. Indiana lost its shooting eye and bowed to Minnesota, 77-71, at Minneapolis, and Purdue was beaten by upset-conscious Michigan, 74-67, at Ann Arbor, Mich.
These surprises enabled Illinois, ranked No. 5 nationally, to vault to the top of the famed league with a 2-0 mark by whipping Wisconsin, 96-77. Ohio State could have tied
This is a league where defending champion Iowa started as a hot favorite to win, but lost five of its first eight games. Illinois bid for attention then, and so did Indiana with a nationallytelevised victory over Wisconsin last Saturday.
for the lead, but was beaten -by Iowa. 88-73.
Iowa, coming out of a "coma" that saw the Hawkeyes lose four straight, downed Ohio State by a second-half surge that created an 18-point lead with four minutes left. Robin Freeman of Ohio State, the nation's leading scorer, was the game's star, however, with 37 points.
Wins Over Wisconsin Illinois had no trouble downing Wisconsin for its seventh
Basketball Scores
LSU 91, Florida 84
William & Mary 92, Furman 81
Washington 93, Georgia Tech 59
Maryland 59, South Carolina 53
Miami, Fl. 89, Mississippi College 84
West Virginia 89, VMI 65
Alabama 89, USC 69
Alabama 87, Mississippi State 75
Cincinnati 85, Loyola, La. 53
Detroit 81, Drake 65
Juvenile 86, NC State 77
Minnesota 77, Indiana 71
Iowa 88, Ohio State 73
straight win as George Bonsale
scored 26 points and Bill Ridley 25.
The experts may be puzzled about the Big Ten, but they're pretty sure that national champion San Francisco will register its 38th straight victory tonight at the expense of Santa Clara.
Four other high-ranked teams will see action tonight:
Southern Methodist (No. 7) vs.
Texas A&M, North Carolina (No.
10) vs. Virginia, Holy Cross (No.
11) vs. Rhode Island; and Mar-
quette (No. 18) vs. Valparaiso.
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