TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Court Rules From Wooden Fruit Baskets to New Are Changed Glass Backboards
Bv BOB TAYLOR
Glass backboards have been made legal for colleges, and the stitched leather basketball recommended over the rubber ball for the ensuing season by the National Basketball Rules Committee. These are the latest of the ever-changing rules that basketball undergoes yearly.
The game of basketball has evolved from a very crude into a highly scientific game during the fifty years of its existence.
Looking at the original rules, we find that the ball was 27 inches in diameter. Later it was enlarged to 32 inches; then because it proved too bulky to handle, it was reduced to its present size of 29 inches.
A wooden fruit basket was the first basket used, and the ball had to remain in the basket to count as a goal. A long pole was used to poke the ball out after a basket had been made.
If a person fouled an opponent twice he was disqualified until a goal was made, and if it was evident that he had attempted to injure his opponent he was disqualified for the whole game. No substitutes were allowed.
Striking at the ball with the fist was considered a foul, and if either side made three consecutive fouls, it counted as a goal for the other side.
When the ball went out of bounds it was thrown in by the first person to touch it. In case of a dispute, the referee threw the ball straight in from the sidelines.
There were 13 original rules. These were hung in the gym at Springfield Y.M.C.A. College at Springfield, Mass., by Dr. James Harrison in 1892, one year after he invented the game. A photostatic copy of these rules hangs in Dr. Forrest C. Allen's office.
ADD SOCIETY---and Mrs. L. E. McCauley and Stanley,
Leona, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Haas,
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lett, Almena; Martha Fairhurst, and Sally Krehbiel, both of Kansas City.
Mo.; and Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Weihe,
Lyons.
...Sunday guests were Mr. and Mrs. John A. Jones, and Miss Maude Overlander, all of Topea; Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Titus and Bill, Florence; Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Ukena, Dottie, and Jane; and Mrs. W. M. Boone', all of Highland; Neal Ukena, Kansas City, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Haas, Mrs.Mary McNitt and Marilyn, and Mrs.M. F. Stark, of Hiwawath;Mr. and Mrs. L. E. McCauley and Stand
Bethany, Mo.; Mr., and Mrs. Max B.
Wells, Paola; and Phil Dynan.
WAGER HALL
WAGER HALL . . .
...Sunday dinner guest was Lois
Ann McDowell, Topeka.
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KAPPA ETA KAPPA . . .
...initiated Don Atchison, Clyde McKale, Arthur Benner, and Richard Miller last weekend.
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DELTA TAU DELTA . .
...Sunday dinner guest was Kenneth Nicolav.
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JOHN J. O. MOORE CO-OP . . .
...dinner guests Sunday were Prof.
G. K. Kalisch, and Don Beamgardner,
Hays.
ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA . . .
...Ivy pledge club will have an hour dance from 8 to 9 tomorrow night.
RICKER HALL ..
celebrated the birthdays of Rosa Lee Erickson Friday night and of Esteleen Downs Sunday night.
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WATKINS HALL .
weekend guests were Joyce Whiting and Arlene Boltz, both of Dighton; and Winnona Cram, Richmond.
...dinner guest Sunday was Barbara Edmonds.
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ALPHA OMICRON PI . . .
...the Mothers Club entertained the chapter with a tea Monday afternoon.
...officers elected at a meeting of the Mothers Club Monday afternoon were: President, Mrs. George B. Dunkley; secretary, Mrs. George Wise; treasurer, Mrs. Owen Clark.
announces the initiation Sunday of Clyde McKale, Don Atchison, Ralph Weir, Arthur H. Benner and Richard D. Miller.
KAPPA ETA KAPPA . .
Attention Students
D. Miner
... Glenn Gray and Bob Harrison
were dinner guests Monday.
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7—BASKETBALL TICKET SALE
Sale of student season basketball tickets began yesterday morning at the athletic office, according to Earl Falkenstein, financial secretary. Students are to exchange activity ticket slips for seat reservations.
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(continued from .page four) Matassarin has passed for over a hundred of his club's points this fall. Harry Jennison and Dewey Nemee will also answer the starting whistle for Battenfeld.
Students have been urged to purchase the tickets immediately, if they desire good seats. Price of the ticket is $1 plus 12 cents tax.
Tickets will not be necessary for the annual freshman-varsity game to be played Dec. 1, but they will on Dec. 15 when the varsity opens the season with Creighton University here.
SIX-MAN GAME---bachelor of science degree in
600 WOMEN---bachelor of science degree in
(continued from page four) most popular. More than 75 girls are enrolled in equitation. A course called recreational sports includes deck tennis, aerial darts, table tennis and shuffle board. Other courses are archery, fencing, tumbling and swimming.
All of the women in physical education courses are in physical conditioning classes on Friday. In that class they march and do callisthenics. Recently they took Brace's Motorability Test, data from which will be compiled so that the women will know how they rank comparatively.
GIFT TO COACH--bachelor of science degree in
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team at fullback. He began his
coaching career at Douglas, Wyoming
and went from there to Pikeville,
Kentucky, where he had championship teams both years that he coached
from. 1931 to 1940 he was head coach and director of athletics at Elgin Academy, Elgin, Ill.
"Rep." as he is popularly known has worked for a number of summers as a ranger in Yellowstone park. He also holds a commission as a "Kentucky colonel" and has taken up oil painting as a hobby. His brother Max starred as a Jayhawkter halfback during the seasons of 1936-37-38.
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Life Spared By Japs
"I want to get my degree," he said, "but my summer plans are uncertain." He now plans to enroll in summer school. "But if I decide it will be too hot, I will return for three months service with the merchant marine. This country is so hot in the summer time," he remarked.
Honorato's ambition this semester is to raise his grade in the mining engineering laboratory from second in the class to first.
"He is alive, because he is a K.U. graduate," Honorato Echavez, junior in engineering from Cevu, Philippine Islands, said in speaking of his brother, Pastor, a graduate of the University. "My brother is a Japanese prisoner, captured with several companions. The prisoners with the exception of Pastor were killed. His life was spared because he was the only person who could operate the Sante Fe Water Controlling system," Honorato explained.
Pastor Echavez received a civil engineering from the University in 1935 and a bachelor of science degree in the School of Engineering and Architecture in 1936.
University of Texas food engineers are working on plans for cooking and drying carrots, according to similar processes followed for sweet potatoes.
Honorato and Pastor enrolled in engineering at the University with the aid of Dr. Milton Curtis Cummings, who received his masters degree from the University in 1926, and doctor of philosophy in 1934 from Yale University, for several years principal of the high school at Cevu.
Honorato has been in active combat serving as 3rd mate officer on deck in the U. S. Merchant Marine which is equivalent to a lieutenant (j.g.) in the navy. He completed two years service on August 21, enlisted in the army reserve, and came to the University where he is studying mining engineering.
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Basketball Film Will Be Shown to WAA Members
A film of the Kansas State-KU basketball game played at Manhatan last season will be shown at the WAA meeting in Robinson gym at 4:30 p.m. Thursday.
The chairman of the hiking committee is Alice Goff. Gladys Hawkins and Jean Ott are the other two members.
The WAA board has added hiking to WAA activities as a means of getting points. Every mile will count one point on hikes of at least five miles, with a bonus for 25 or 50-mile walks. The board has made out prescribed routes and will set a time limit on each hike.
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