The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-29
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(Heg. U. S. Pat. OIL By JACK CUDDY


 leaned back stoicaily behind . dcsui. tory protection of ice cream and black coffee as the pink-gkinned professor with the horn trimmed spectacles rose to the occasion. But our iethargy was blasted as the man behind the rims = pr. Forrest c. "phog" Allen of Kansas U. = launched Q scathing attack against collegiate basketball and tts current misconceptions.
 It seemed impossible that the vitriol!c words were coming from pr. Allen, 6 fnedium-sized man with crisp brown hair who looks like yMCA herder. But he was giving off violently--much to the surprise of newspaper men gathered at Toots shor's tavern.
 The theme of his verbal onslaught was: Let's have baskets I2 feet from the floor, and nertz to the NCAA."
 Hoop Freaks
 Dr. Allen, whose Kansas JAyhaWks spoiled Fordham'g egcutcheon 3l-3O last night ct Madison Square Gar. den, demanded the 12.foot baskets as the only remedy to rem ve from the hoop garie those extra-tali men of the seven.foot type whom iia Zee scribed as freaks" and "giandular goons."
 Raise the baskets from their original and ante-dated 10 feet to the fnodernIy -rcquired 12," he said, land those skyscraper players will be swept of the court because they'll be expected to play the game -instead of merely standing be. meath the baskets as tail towers of defense"
 Dr. Allen efnphasized that if the baskets were raised to 12 feet, the current "circus giants who now stan1 beneath the 10-foot baskets, tapping them in and knocking them out" would be as useless as mud pies in Aunt Maggte's fnarma- Jade. He said that the "gianduiar giants" would be forced to play bas- ketbali, which they cannot" and the game would be returned to speedy, normai-sized players.
 We've got to take the freaks out of college basketball, he continued because they are running the game that Dr. Nasssnith invented. He de- clared that when Dr. Naismith hung his peach baskets 10 feet from the floor Q half-century agO, he didn't mean that this height would prevail down through the ages. He fixed this height merely because 1t was comfortable in the loW-ceilinged YMCA at Springfield, Mass"
 Conditions hare changed since then, Dr. Alien-director Of physi- cal education and basketball coach at Kansas-pointed out.
 Blasts NCAA
 pr. Allen snOrted that the pro- posed height change would have been made already were 1t not for the stupid backwardness" of the National Collegiate Athletic Ass0- ciation and the jett1argy of college coaches.
 '-The NCAA." he said. Ifs a money hungry organization that fattens oil the bones of college basketball. and ktlS GCACBG U6SkStD8U GD8S8tSS are the most backward band Of mentors in ail athletics. This is a deadly combination which stifies any pro- gress in college basketball. and forces the dissatisfied college coach es to look toward the high school coaches for any improvement that may be made in the game.
 Tine only persons basketball who are doing any research are the high school pilots-instructOrs who do not concentrate on finding glan- dular giants to play with their teams instructors who study the game thoroughly and try to it it to their averaged-sized pupils"
 Dr. Allen concluded that if The ccns~-ti0n of ~tall towers were re- moved from beneath the basket by two-foot lift. the giants" would become useless and the hoop sport would revert to the fast. strategic game that pr. Naismlth had in mind when he invented #.