New Britain herald., 1922-10-19
MANY CHANGES IN
 BASKETBALL RULES
New Code Provides for Two Free
 Tries After Personal Fouls

uppermost in the minds of the col legiate coaches and lovers of amateur basketball at the present time Is the radical change in rules made by the joint committee on basketball rules at its annual meeting at the close of the 192l-22 season. The variations from the former code prove interesting at the present time with so many teams preparing for the coming campaign.
 The most important change is the one concerning personal fouls in the end zone, which necessitated the com- mittee also altering the marking Of the court
 This new rule allows two free throws to the offensive team If a player is fouled within the opponents end zone, known as the area within the free throw mark. Another ruling which has created wide comment is the new technical foul law, the pen alty of which is the loss of the ball to the opponents out of bounds on the side lines in the near vicinity of where the infraction was committed.
 Simplified Version
 Dr. Walter E. Meanwell of the Unl- versity of Wisconsin, a member Of the joint rules committee, has advanced a simplified version of the new rules prior to the publication of official basketball guides in which he speaks favorably regarding the committees newest venture to make the game cleaner and better.
 The rules in marking the court will require that a line be drawn IT feet out from the parallel to each end line. In other words, the free throw line at each end will be extended to touch the side lines,
 The area at each end of the court bounded by the end line, the new line parallel to the end line, and the side lines, will constitute an end zone. or penalty area, within which certain fouls will have decidedly different penalties than formerly, some of which will be more severe and some less so, depending upon their charac ter, personal or technical, and upon whether the team on attack or on de- fense is the offender.
 How the personal foul in the end zone rule reads as follows:
 l. All personal fouls committed by a team, when it's opponents are in possession of the ball in the penalty area in front of their own goal. will be penalized by the award of TWO FREE THROWS town goal means the one at which they are shooting)
 2. All personal fouls committed elsewhere on the court than in the penalty area and by either the offen sive or the defensive team are penal ized by one free throw as formerly.
 3. Personal fouls within the pen alty area, when the ball is in the pos session of the defending team, shall be penalized by the award of one free throw.
 In other words, the old personal foul penalty of one shot holds every where and in all cases except where the defending team fouls the attack ing team, when the latter has the ball within the zone in front of its own basket
 Eliminate Fouling
 The rule will do away with deliber- ate fouling of backs when the men on the offensive have worked so diligent- ly to bring the ball within a radius where players with good eyes for the hoop have a percentage of missing about two in five shots Now If man is fouled in the end zone he is amply repaid by the rules in being given two tries from the 15-foot mark the equivalent of a floor basket if he makes both his attempts good.
 Technical fouls in this area will be penalized as in previous seasons with one free try.
 Hockey and soccer have their pen alty areas and now the hoop game is following suit
 The one free throw penalty holds as formerly for all the fouls com monly known as technical except those named below, for which new var iety of penalty has been created.
 Tn the case of variety of fouls for merly known as technical and includ- ing CD running with the ball, CD advancing, (3) striking the ball with fists. (4 unintentional kicking ball, (5) violating the jumping rules, (6) passing ball instead of making a free trial for goal, CD the double drib-