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while running. due allowance shall be
made, provided he stops as soon as
possible"
Some of the original rules In their
first draft have been changed only
slightly throughout the years. Since
DIR. Naismith had Is in his class, he
needed q game with nine on each side.
This fact accounts for the wording OF
the first draft. which was drawn up
in December. 1891:
There shall be nine men on each
side--three forwards. three centers
and three guards.
Seven or Nine Men,
The next wear. In January. 1892, a
provision was made that gave an op-
ton. by mutual consent. OF playing
either seven or nine men.
A few years later "A further prrvi.
sion was made which permitted either
nine, seven or five men on team.
This @pfoe!sibsr3was contingent upon
the size of the playing space afforded.
Two years later the number of play.
ers was definitely placed at Ave. and
basket ball az 1t In played today began
Its rapid evolution.
Basket ball In points Of years is only
an infant. but SO far as development
in growth of interest liz concerned II
In n young athletic giant. r. $ game
has evolved In sensational way. A
game that in the beginning was spe-
officially created to take care OF the
play needs of Is dissatisfied Young
stalwarts Is now played by millions in
our country alone.
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CALIFORNIA NAMES
men TO PLAY PENN


BERKELEY. Calf. December %.
The mystery as to what the start
ing lineup of the University Of Cali
fornia foot bali team would he in
the game with the University. Of
Pennsylvania here December 81. was
cleared up today when Head Coach
"Nibs" Price announced the II men
who would take the field at the
kick off
Phillips and J, Doughery were
named at ends, Captain Coltrin and
either Green or. Fitz at tackles. Fl
Gill and Kaufman at guards and
Reigels ut center.
The backfield consists of Evans at
quarter, LON and Newman at halves
and either r. Doughery, Cockburn
or Schmidt at fullback.
The selection of Lom for one of
the halfback posts came as some
what of surprise. as Price has had
him working out with the third string
during the practice sessions last week.
Stan Barr. the sophomore fuliback.
who proved the sensation of the
Washington and Stanford games. is
definitely out of the lineup as a re-
suit of kick in the back he re.
ceived in scrimmage last week.
The California and Pennsylvania
teams INDUCED in short workouts in
the rain yesterday on Hilgrad Field.
A canvas has been stretched over
the turf at the memorial stadium. in
surfing a dry field for the contest
Saturday IL 1t does not rain during
the game.
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EAST HAS THE EDGE
IN PRO COURT LOOP

That the strength Of the American
Basket Ball League lies in the East
was again made evident last night
when the Rochester and Philadelphia
fves trounced their. respective OPP
ponents, Detroit and Cleveland, by
scores Of as.lS and $3.50.
Detroit's defeat sunk the Cardinal
u,rfnt deeper In the Western divisional
fourth straight loss and shortened
the gap between the Fifth City crew
and Fort Wayne only two games.
Cleveland again got the main pcr-
ton of Its points from. the reliable
Vic Hanson. ex.Syracuse University
star. and Nat Hickey, the former
scoring II markers and the latter
counting Is. The game was rough
and provided many foul scoring on.
lortuMties to the Clevelanders. but
the accurate shooting from the field
by the Philadelphians. especially by
kellett and Glasco. was the decisive
factor.
Cleveland In washington's next OPP
ponent Mt the Arcadia. two games he.
ing due TN January and 10. In the
meantime Ray kennedv's men will
20 through long series Of exhibition
and league games in the West.
Starting with a game at Sandussy,
Ohio. last night. the local quins
meets the I4orain. Ohio team tonight,
Monroeville, Ohio. tomorrow night.
and Flint, Mich. Saturday night.
Next week Fort Wayne. Chicago and
Detroit will engage Washington in
five contests.
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Foot Ball Committee Opposed Any Further Alteration
REST-PLAY is NEW IDEA
IN BASKET BALL GAMES

URBANA, ILL.,, December 20 P):-
Athletic officials at the University
of Illinois have instituted a method
OF playing basket ball which they
believe may he the basis, for a new
regime in the court sport, at least
in practice. s~
Three minutes Of rest are pro.
viled after each 10 minutes Of
play.
Under the direction Of Cord Lipe,
freshman basket ball coach, G. X.
Griffith. director of psychological
research in athletics, and q. 4.
Stafford, professor Of 0rthOpedirs,
have undertaken Il comprehensive
study Of the court game. will! the
threef0ld object Of obtaining better
players, better students and better
athletes.
Under the rest-play plan. Lipe
said, players seem to grasp tho
fundamentals. Of the game much
more quickly. They are required
to lie fiat on the floor. CONVERSE
ton In not permitted.
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ny Sol. Ml+TZtilcR.

yale's basket ball has not heen
satisfactorily solved since la.5'
Last Winter Yale wound up last ~
"A hectic league race that required
"a play OH between Dartmouth a"d
Princeton. Dartmouth winning
rerl,aps Yates inability 10 out"eor"
Ihe other big fellows II due 10
uaws In its 0ffense. In principle
vaie's attack h Hike Miehtgan's"~
tour masses Ia n man cutting for
1hs bnsLst. THIS In u winning at'
tack when the men who eut nave
nheno,nenni speed and sufficient
height 10 permit playing th1 bai'
over the 0pponents heads.
Against Cornell last season ana
throughout the Winter Vale would
advance with four men handling
ths bali, u guard staying back u"
preyent M opponent getting Tree
In ease Ynie list the hall, The hase
III this attack. once past the center
circle, was ~ have un end man tnt
for The BASKET at lightning speed.
tai.a u Ioi,g pass froM a teanimate
and drihbia IN far u sl,nt. The play
In diaErat,nied above. Yale was
unabie IL work the play With any
degree Ut consistency. IN the opin,e
nsnt 4 wauid get the hall Nv snaii
The shut BY fast guarding. same
tiMes taia's attack was forced Ia
ihs c0rner Ut thu court, Then Vale
had IN depend M tina taust dtttir.iit
shat Ut ail~~the eross body shoulder
siaOts
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BUSY WEEK END FACED i
BY COLLEGE DELEGATES
Practically Every Phase of Student Activities to Be
Taken Up by Varied College Organizations
in Session at New York.

else, and that there are Just abou. az
many good players. Southern elevens
certainly have done better in the
games out in the Far West than ne
big Eastern eieven4 have, and this
year against the pick Of the Far West
il was the Southern eleven that ron
at Los Angeles while the Eastern
team lost ~ San Francisco. Inch
dentaily, no other school, has accom-.
plished in the Tourna ment u Roses
game anything in comparison 70 what
Alabama did the last two years.
One Of troubles in Southern loot
ball. as / see il, il not 50 much with
the teams, nor with the coaches. out
with the Southern sport writer's.
They, with hardly any exception.
commonly known AZ an irfertor.tv
complex. They are ert.re.Y TOO
willing 10 accept what Northern and
Western writer's say about their stars.
and hesitate to come cut and rate
stars from their own section On a.
parity with stars Of other sections.
II In high time THAT the Sou+Hern
sport writer's awoke 70 4 few facts.
nd the recent games in which the
South triumplled AZ Los Angeles
ought tn settle any Question about
the caliber Of the South's ptavsr<.
1T is nv opinion that tra south
had az many high class foct ball
teams in 1927 as any other section
in the country. and without any
doubt many Of it's teams would have
made it interesting for any team in
the United States on any SATURDAY.
afternoon this past Fall.
why should a foot ball team com.
posed Of the following NAMED men Re
the under dog against any human
opposition: Spears Of Vanderbilt.
quarterback; Thomas ~ MARYLAND.
Estes of Georgia and Brown Of Ala
hama. halfbacks; Dodson Of Tennessee
and MiddIekauf OF Florida. fulItackS:
Crowley. Georgia Tech. and Creson
OF Vanderbilt. ends: Pickard q Ala
hama . and Hood OF Georgia Tech.
tackles: Bowdoin of Alabama. and
Barnhill of Tennessee. guards ard
Sharpe of Vanderbilt az cen-er%
These are just few OF the really
high-class performers in the South.
These are seniors and the men who
won at Los Angeles We haverr
even mentioned Shiver and Nash.
Georgia's great ends. as well as many
others who do not graduate this
year. The South has been demon,
strating her true worth 70 the entire
foot ball world for the past three
years. and It Is about time her cwa
sports writers give her players and
teams the credit they deserve"
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STANDS PAT ON CHANGES
MADE In CRIDIRON CODE
Revisions Have Accomplished Most of Their Pur
pose, Is Contention Made in the Annual Re-
port Submitted by Chairman Hall.

! with the result OF the changes rs
shown In the game during the season
| lust closed. Never before have we
seen better foot ball. AS long as we
can hold the game essentially as II
! is today. we will apparently have the
| the finest kind Of game--open. clean
| fast. interesting. safe and with such
wealth Of strategic possibilities that
the underdog always has his chance
TO come hack and the defeated team,
an opportunity to win the following
week.
NO changes in the rules are con-
templated by the committee other
than certain minor changes for the
purpose Of clarifying, adjusting or per-
fecting provisions already in the
rules"
Before the start Of the season,
Halls report said the most serious of
the rules.nakers' problems was the
illegal shift. It has disappeared. he
adds. and the danger of any return
To momentum plays through its de-
vice has been eliminated by the new
rule compelling approximately one
second fun stop after a team shifts,
OF the lateral pass rule designed to
strengthen the offense. Hairs report
says that it has not been given com
plete enough trial to determine its
value.
LAS in the case of the forward
pass" the report says. lit undoubted-
ly will take at least three or four
years to develop its real possibilities.
There Is no question. however. but
that to whatever extent the lateral
pass is developed as ground-gainsng
play. to the same extent it will force a
widening of the defense. and thus he
running game"
Withstand Early Assaults.
NEW YORK, December % R.-
Foot balls rules. bitterly attacked
during the playing season. have sue.
cessfullv withstood the opening as
suits launched by some OF the nation s
gridron coaches and officials gathered
hero for their annual conclaves.
The attacks. thus far, have been
few and far between with most of the
opposition confined TO the hotel lob
bies rather than the convention floor
Tacit approval. at least, to the rules
an they are, was given last night by
the Eastern Association Of 1ntercol.
legiats Foot Ball officials which re.
stricted its recommendations to the
rules committee. for the most part,
to suggestions for changing the ian.
guage OF the present code In order
to clarity 1t and to establis a definite
Interpretation Of certain disputed sec
tons.
The associations action followed an
address by Edward X. Hall. chairman
Of the national foot ball rules commit
tee. who indicated that he believed the
game had reached a satisfactory basic
foundation.
While the rules constituted a topic
for discussion at the annual meeting
NJ the National Collegiate Athletic
Association today. their most severe
attack probably will come when tho
National Foot Ball Coaches Assoc.a.
ton talks over matters on Friday. 1t
was considered certain that the coach
60 would unleash heavy barrage OF
criticism against the games code.
centering their attack on the new
rules, adopted last year. governing
the lateral pass and moving the goal
posts ten, yards back Of thA.sclual
goal line. y =
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PERSIAN ATHLETIC STAR
MAY ENTER GEORGETOWN

ROCK ISLAND. Ill.,. December
20 tA'.--Martin Knanishu. n native
Of Persia, whose athletic training
in youth was gained in playing
battlcdoor and shuttIecOck In his
homeland. has become one Of the
outstanding athletes mt Augustana
College here.
knanisl,u. whose American friends
have niclxnamed him Rabbit" is
a foot ball and basket ball star
and plays golf and tennis with IA
cility. The Augustana eleven's at
tack was built around him this
year.
Knanishu is preparing for con.
sular work and expects to enter
Georgetown University.
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TWO SCHOOL FIvES
r. HAVE GAMES AWAY

Central and Gonzaga basket bali
teams will travel tomorrcw. Central
Is to meet York. Pa, High tossers in
that Pennsylvania town and Gonzaga
is slated to hook up with ~. Xavier
School in New York. Teeh.tia down
for a contest with it's alumni In the
Boys Club gym in the only game on
local floor.
Coach Dan .ihern's Western High
court squad was to face Il team of the
schools alumni this afternoon at 5
O'Clock. 1t was To he the second prac-
tice game for Western in a week. 4
scrimmage was held with Calvary
Reds earlier in the week.
In sizzling struggle last night
Tech was handed It's first defeat. Of the
season by Southeast Cioyers. The
score was &c to "a.
1t was announced officially last
night at a banquet of the alumni and
athletic associations of Dewitt School
that the school viii stage "A track meet
on Georgetown University Field next
Spring. Cooperation Of the alumni
and students was asked.
Francis Knott. crack fullback of the
elected captain OF the 1928 eleven.
Letters and other awards were pre-.
scented Knott ard these remaining
members of the 1927 team by Coach
Jim Mcnamara: Shrugrue. Cutler.
Vincent. Hopper, Thompson. Walker,
Tangora. Fletcher, Engle, thrilling,
I.arche, Bernard. West. Bakshian. Nc
Intyre, Harris. Porter. Kennedy and
Manager King.
Mcnamara. in discussing next sea
sons grid plans, said he was in favor
OF Dewitt meeting more local teams.
He did not think frequent trips TO dis
tant schools were particularly helpful
to the school.
j. Leighton Cornwell war reelected
president OF the Alumni Association
fer the ensuing year, with Jack Car
malt. vice president. and Ike Wilmot,
secretary-treasurer.
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BY the Associated Press.
N YEW YORK. December 2a.-The
national foot hall rules com
VI n1ittee stands pat on the
4 changes made in the gridlron
code this year, its chairman
Edward X Hall. Of New York and
Dartmouth. disclosed today in making
his annual report to the convention
Of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association.
These rules changes. in Halls opin-
ion. have accomplished most OF their
purpose and as a result the commit
tee ccntemplates no alterations at its
annual meeting later in the Winter,
except possibly to clarity or adjust
some Of the provisions already in the
code.
The conservative stand by the rules
committee chairman came today while
coaches and foot hall officials from all
parts of the country gathered for their
annual debates and post-mortems on
the gri6iron season. 1t is contrast
with the somewhat critical attitude
adopted by numerous coaches. particu.
larry toward this years rules changes.
The changes with which Hall says
the rules committee lis much graft
fed" included setting hack the goal
posts 10 yards. removal of the major
risks in. use of the lateral pass ana
in catching punts, regulations Of the
shift with increased penalty for il
legal shifts, and control of "unreason-
able delays" in the game.
Answer 10 Criticism.
Criticism has been leyeled particu.
larly at shifting thu goal posts. Halls
report notes, adding: The argument
Is advanced that it is more difficult
for the spectators 10 tell whether the
play which is near the goal line has
resulted in touchdown.
The answer is clear. II the in
convenienced spectator can restrain
his curiosity for about three to five
seconds longer he will he advised in
no uncertain terms as 10 whether the
ball is over or not. Furthermore. the
rules committee always has acted on
the principle that this game was a
game primarily for the boys who play
1t and only incidentally for those
who watch it. When the permanent
safety of the boys must give way to
the momentary convenience of the
spectators our ideas as 10 the true
purposes Of academic sport will have
TO come UP for drastic and annihila-
tive revision
In defense Of the goal post re-
moval. Hall stresses the fact that
il has eliminated the danger OF in
Juries in scrimmages near the up
rights. II also he says, has removed
the unfair handicap which exists
when a team kicks out from behind
its own goal posts. makes IL more
difficult for a team TO capitalize a
star kicker's ability and adds to the
gamble for the extra point after
touchdown.
In his review of rules making,
covering the period of radical re-
struciion OF the game from 1905 to
1920 and the era Of sterilization and
Standardization since then, Hall sees
the game as now established on a
well balanced plane.
Changes Crafty Committee.
Pointing out the aim OF this years
changes TO strike a fair balance be-
tween offense and wdstepse be says.
The comaais Isl gratihed
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BY tho Associated Press.
Y AWRENCE. kans.. December %.
Out here In Kansas at our
State University we have in the
IL physical education department
genial and philosophical old
gentleman, a Canadian by birth and
a teammate of Amos Alonzo Stagg Mt
the Springfield, Mass, y. NJ. {. a.
Training School In the early nineties.
This man In DIR. James Naismlth.
originator of the game of basket ball.
This man and this sport are unidLe.
DIR. Naismith In the only man who has
invented a great national game single
handed. This game OF basket ball is
the only national game of Importance
which has come to us as the invention
OF one mans brain, All others OF our
national games. such as foot ball, base
ball, tennis. lacrosse and cricket, have
been handed down through the ages.
Foot bali has been In the process OF
evolution for more than 1000 years.
Game Is Ordered.
James Nalsmith was instructed by
his colleague. DIR, Luther Haisey Gu
lick. at the International Young Mems
Christian Association College, To bring
In as a special assignment game that
would bridge over the seasons OF foot
ball in the Fall and track and base
ball in the Spring. The discomfort
among the students In young Nal.
smiths class for formal gymnastics
was much In evidence. The Is menu
hers OF this class ranged in ages from
20 to 80 years. They were working
for their secretarial degrees and dis
liked 10 give one hour daily TO gym
nasium work. They wanted to play
game. However. this exercise was re.
quired for their graduation. So un.
less n game could be substituted this
work could not he evaded. The gym.
nasium requirement was very much
like that which obtains In our acad'
emio colleges today.
Young Naismith first tried to nodsfs'
foot ball for indoor needs. but that did
not work. II tackling could have been
eliminated, much Of tho roughness
would have been done away with.
Thus the search for "a new indoor
sport proceeded. Naismith used
soccer foot bali TO play with on nc.
count of It's even bouncing qualities.
and peach baskets suspended from the
running track as goals.
4 rule was soon made 10 prohibit
running with the ball. 1t read like
this:
"a player shall not carry the ball
while In bounds. IL he catches II
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tDg. ~ ~ D. and there was absolutely
no hops for The Stanford team.
Another team which stopped play,
ing four minutes before the legal
termination Ut Tins wins West Vir,
glnta. Michigan was leading 1874 10
q, when West Virginia decided IL had
reached the end Of it's resourees
yet another time saw uas playing
at Ann Arbor. Our opponent was
Buffalo, and the score WAS l2s to o,
with II minutes 10 pi#y, when they
stopped, Between the halves We had
given them the privilege of putting
back players y
Shortly before that aame tefmi.
mated ! n0tifed u big fellow IN buffalo
fsRaiia coming 0n the fsid toward
0uF bench.
You're In lbs wrong pew
brother said IN bin,
No In not. was his answer. !
know what I'm doing, I've been III
there three tl,nsn already aud In mol
going back 10 that other side Ut ihe
field"
Snst WAS guest At gathering III
iha University of Michigan club ri
Boston, Later he went 10 New iofh
for the annual meeting af the Ma
llonai Collegiate Artistic Association
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ARMY AND NAVY UNLIKELY
TO SETTLE THEIR BREACH
West Point in Giving Figures to Refute Some of An.
napo'is Statements, Indicates 1t Will Stand '
Pat ON Its System. -,

full varsity career at West Point. In
other words, the average previous ex'
perience per man was only six-tenths
of n year instead of IS years. II the
Army calculation Is accepted.
The Navy quoted figures on IL men
with an aggregate of Ga years expert
ence, but by some process strange to
the Army followers. divided this by ]
to arrive at an average of 5.S years.
The Army, for good measure. adds two
more experienced names to the list
making 10, with total experience of 90
years, to produce an average of 80.
West Point Is Puzzled.
what" these Army men are ask
ing, was the Nays idea in forcing
the three-year issue now, in view OF
the existence, of a four-year contract
with three years more to run and the
known stand of West Point on the
eligibility question:"
The Navy points to this paragraph
in a recently published news pamphlet
issued at Annapolis:
In our athletic relations with the
college world we have from time tn
time been requested to conform to
college standards of eligibility The
freshman rule was first applied partly
at the insistence of Yale and Prince
ton 1923. Now Notre Dame asks for
the three-year rule in foot ball" -.
But If Notre Dame made such a re-
quest to the Navy 1t neglected TO take
up the same issue with West Point,
with whom the IIoosiers have had
gridiron relations since 1913.
Neither Notre Dame nor any other
institution, except the Navy, has
taken up the three-year rule with the
Army, it Is declared on authority.
where has the Navy been particu-
larly at n disadvantage over the long
period of rivalry?" These persistent
Army men inquire up to the time
of the war, the Navy held the upper
hand, since the war. there have been
two ties, while nearly all of the other
games have been close. Other teams
such as Yale and Notre Dame. haven't
found so-called Army experience too
much to overcome; in fact these two
teams both hold decided edge over
West Point over a period of years"
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Foot Ball Iron Men Not New.
Yost of Michigan Declares

ny she Ass9elatsd Press
BOSTON, December zy,~ Fielding
IL. Yosi, athletic director II the Uni
yetsisy ~ Michigan. after n visit 10
Boston left behind "reminiscences Of
opponents ~ Michigan who quit the
kFidifnn bef0fh time WAS up.
THIS first WAS Leland Stanford on
New Year day, 1909, Yost had been
eoseh III Stanford before he went 10
Michigan.
/ The Michigan team numbered only
IL men, "bnt only II ef them played,
Yes, you might call IL one ~ the early
editions III iha iron men," f1si said
The captain nj Stanford Wac
Fisher, q hoy who had played great
game In the I,sekt1sid for me In 1900
| saw him before the game, recall
thai ] asked him how long the halves
would be- Like b. sbof las answered
ThigtysiSse minutes
II thought they might bs able 10
agree oH shorter halves. but IL was
evident Stanford had made up lin
mind.
well, with only nine minute. isfi to
play Stanford aiii tbs game ana lha
field with the wholly stneers statement
thst every one Of rs or 40 men avail
llle had been In The game and was
absolutely played out. We were Lead