Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-24
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Alexandria nosed out St. Cloud in
pretty game at the former place last
week, the score being 1914. The win.
ming points came following brilliant
run by Capt. Cassell in the last few
minutes of the game.
In defeating Marshall by a score OF
1920 last week, the Montevideo high
school football team accomplished q
most unusual feat, in that out of four.
teen forward pass plays attempted,
twelve of them worked successfully
for gains.
Litchfield closed the football season
by defeating Hutchinson 100 to 0.
They had the most successful season
ever experienced by team in this
section of the state. Losing but one
game during the season, they ran up
total of some $50 points to 80 for
their opposition. Twice during the
season they totalled 100 or more
points in a game. With the exception
OF Dart, that crack backfeld will be
on hand again next year. Their rec
ord speaks wonders for the ability of
DR.. VIM. Robertson as a coach.
A new basket ball luminary seems
to be flashing across the horizon, in
the person Of the New London high
school team. They have played four
or five games, to date, on their out
door court, and have yet to taste the
bitter dregs of defeat. Not only that
but the great regularity with which
they have been running up scores
ranging from 80 to 40 points, while
their opponents have been held to or
3, possibly more, field baskets, is
alarming.
Either New London has a wonder
fully strong aggregation or Brooten
and Belgrade are woefully weak Any,
way, it seems that in Angel Hanson,
New London has a wonderful basket
shooter, as in two games last week he
connected with the net for a total of
thirty-five baskets.
The main change in the basket ball
rules for the season Of 1856 which
affects the game as played by the To-
cal teams, is in dribbling. Heretofore
in interscholastic basket ball it has
been illegal to shoot for basket fol-
lowing a dribble. This has been done
away with, and players are allowed to
shoot from a dribble under the new
rules. The following comments on
the New Rules and Interpretations
were made by DR.. Joseph E. Raycroft,
OF the University of Chicago, Chair
man of the rules committee. All i'm
portant features of the new rules,
which were not common to both sets
Of old rules, as we'll as features not
hitherto contained by either, will be
classed as changes.
l. After q dribble a shot for goal
may be permitted.
2. In the course Of a dribble the
ball may be touched with both hands
even tho the dribble was started with
both hands. At the instant the ball
in the course Of a dribble, is touched
comes to rest in one hand, the dribblo
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be passed to another player, or thrown
for the goal
3. A player is disqualified for four
personal fouls.
4. On the so-called lump ball."
the jumpers must keep one hand be.
hind their back. Neither may catch
the ball until it has been handled by
another player.
S. In the situation commonly
known as three-men-on-the-ba ball, q foul
is only committed when the third
player charges in, and makes bodily
contact with the opponents. The con-
tact may be very slight, however, and
may be accidental. In fact it is diff
ficult for the third player to come in
without causing contact, yet it should
be born in mind that three players
having hands on the ball does not in
itself constitute foul.
6. On free trial for goal, as soon
as the ball hits the basket or the back
ground, players may enter the free
throw lane. This is expected to be
an improvement over both sets of the
old rules, in that the time of entering
the lanes is made definite.
Z. When the referee has awarded
the ball to a player out of bounds an
opponent may not touch it and so
check the play, until his team mates
have covered" their opponents. II
rigidly enforced, this rule will do
away with one Of the most unsports-
manHke features of the game.