New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-30
AUSTRIAN BUYS ANOTHER CLEAN UP BASKETBALL
Changes in Rules Meet with
Favor of Officials.
PLAYERS TO BE NUMBERED
Time Period of Disqualified
tion for Four Personal
Fouls.

Judging from the enthusiasm with
which the revised basketball rules were
received by a conference of officials,
coaches and players which was held at
the Hotel Astor yesterday, it is apparen,
that the rules committee accomplished
its purpose toward cleaning up the game
in its sessions last summer. Few vital
changes have been made i'm the game,
but reforms have been introduced In
minor particulars which without doubt
will SO long way toward making the
game what It should be. The Keynote
Of every change that the committee made
is, play the bail and not the man.
One strikingly novel feature which may
be copied by the football people is the
provision for numbering the players.
Each man will hereafter wear felt num-
bers six inches in height on the back Of
his jersey. Thus it will be much easier
for the officials and scorers to designate
the players who have been guilty Of conn
hitting more than the allotted number
of personal fouls il is a feature that
the basketball committee has culled from
the mass of suggestions made to the foot
ball authorities for the reform Of that
game.
Charging and blocking players and the
demarCation OF the so-called personal
and technical fouls we're the chief points
of discussion brought up. The blocking
Of opponents without personal contact,
and the charging from behind Of players
who are about to shoot without bodily
contact provoked a lively discussion, in
which Or. Joseph h. RayCroft, of Prince
ton. chairman Of the rules committee and
presiding officer Of the meeting, and Har-
ry A. Fisher, the Columbia member OF
the committee took part
After talk that continued for nearly
an hour IL was decided that a reCommcn-
dation be made 10 the rules committee
to the effect that where unnecessary
rOughDesS was part of either the
blocking or charging the foul be con-
sidered a personal one. In reference TO
the personal foul rules it was urged that
instead of permanent disqualification
from the game, the PLAYER that had com
mitted four personal offences be disqual-
flied for a time period as I'm hockey
This, however, did not find much favor,
In the interests of a speedy game it
was ruled that the basket be not tied
and that the ball should have free pas
sage through the net, and, furthermore,
that the referee declare the ball in play
ten seconds after IT is placed on the foul
line after foul Is called Coaching
from the sidelnes was also ruled against,
especially when the teams go to their
corners during time of periods.
Those who attended the meeting were
X. Z. Morgan, Pennsylvania; Oswald
Tower, Williams; Fred Dawson, Prince
ton: r. J. Thorpe. Columbia; A. Kefaber
Pennsylvania; r. Z. Lamberton, Penn
sylvania; +. J. Quigg, New York A. c.;
A. G. Salmon. Brooklyn Central J. NJ.
{. A. j. c. Lee Columbia; r. Benson,
Columbia. s. Jaques, Columbia; +. p.
Carney, Trenton Y. NJ c. A: Wilmer
Crowel, Swarthmore: Fred Murphy,
Yale; W. L. Lush, Yale; G. A. Wey-
mouth Yale; 4. W. Fauver. Oberlin; y,
F. Emery, Pennsylvania; J. A. Aspin-
wall Springfield r. s.: Paul Sternberg,
Syracuse; G. G. Melvin, Hayerstraw;
Carl A. Read Springfield; II. Baetzel,
Pennsylvania; q. J. Lawrence, Pennsyl-
vania George Kent, Cornell; J. ". Can
non. Dartmouth; Claud Allen ST. Johns
College +. L. Freeman. Williams r., A.
Victor. Williams; Y. +. Jarvis Prince
ton; w II. Dillon. Swarhmore &. Carl
son, Wesleyan, J. j. Flanagan, Ford
ham; Il. b. Sampson, r. =. l.; A. Calder,
ST. Lawrence. and W. Adler, Sewanee.