The Kentucky High School Athlete, October 1940

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1 Eastern Kentucky Unversty Encompass The Athlete Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton The Kentucky Hgh School Athlete, October 1940 Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton Follow ths and addtonal works at: Recommended Ctaton Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton, "The Kentucky Hgh School Athlete, October 1940" (1940). The Athlete. Book Ths Artcle s brought to you for free and open access by the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton at Encompass. t has been accepted for ncluson n The Athlete by an authorzed admnstrator of Encompass. For more nformaton, please contact Lnda.Szemore@eku.edu.

2 A KENTUCKY "WLDCAT" N ACTON Offcal Organ of the KENTUCK{ HGH SCHOOL ATHlETC ASSOCATON OCTOB!;:R

3 ALVN NUGENT McMLLN Head Coach, ndana Unve rsty Alvn Kugent.\fc:\flln. popularly known as "Bo.. snce hs colorfu l hgh school and college days. began hs nneteenth season as a football coach when he took command of the ndana football squad for the openng drll on September 10, W hen l'vf Cl\ llln went t o. ndana U nversty n 1934, he started the Hoosers on the road to g rdron gl~r y unkno \nl to ndana Cn versty before hs arr val. l-e has won hs way nto t he hearts of both partsan and non-partsan fans by puttng on the g rdron year after yea r a fghtng. hghsprted football team whch never once has fal ed to stage a courageous f g ht. r egardless of the odds or the outcome. Du rng hs 18 years as a coach,.\k\flln has a reco rd of 101 vctores, 50 losses and 9 te g ames. }fclvlln started hs football career at F o rt \Vorth. T exas. H gh School. He went from hgh school to Cent re College, Danvlle, Ky., where as quarterback for the famed Prayn' Colonels he became one of footbalrs mmortals. He was \Valter Camp's selecton for 1\-Amerca quarterback n 1919 and won ths same dstncton n hs one sea son o f professonal football. llo left Centre College n 1922 to become head coach at Centenary College, Shre\ eport, La. A fter three successful years there, }fc-:\.tlln went t o GeneYa College, Beaver Falls, Pa., for another three-year t erm. From there Bo went to Kansas S tate Coll ege n the Bg Sx Conference where he served fo r sx: years before comng to ndana unversty. T wo ye11rs ago McMlln was elected head coach of the College All-Star football team, chosen n the poll conducted by the Chcago Trbuue. Hs :;quad dceated the \Vas hngton Redskns. na tonal proessonal football champons that year , n the most colorful and spectacular game of the seres. n 1936, :\fc:\{ lln served as a n a s s ~ tan t coach or the A ll-star collegate squad, a nd has hac.l the pleasure o f seeng ont: of hs players elected to the squad every year snct: he came to ndana. He s presdent ths year ( ) of -the Natonal Football Coaches Assocaton. R ecognzed as one. of the keenest students of the game of football, :\1cMlln s noted for hs bafflng and ntrcate plays. Called "the m ost colorful football coach n the Unted States" by a promnent Chcago sportswrter, M cmlln's grdron comments a t ndana Unversty have become classcs wth newspapermen. McMlln, both as coach and player, s accustomed to workng wth small squads. B ut n every coachng post he has a cheved fne success. KanSHs State, where Bo coached s x years before comng to ndana. s thr smallest school n the Bg Sx. but hs teams rpped through such stalwarts as o wa State. Mssour, and Xebraska for sensatonal \'ctores..most of.mc:\1lln s Hooser S(luads have been small n n u mb er ~. but hs sx -year regme at ndana has bee;:n characterzed by the g reatest era of football prospcnty known to the school. He was the natonal hero when he led Centr ~ s lttle band o f P rayn' Colo ne ls to vctory over Harvard and other g reat football teams of hs college days. JvlcMlln's cou1plcte foo tball coachng 1 ccord follows : \Non Lost Ted At lndana ( ) At Kansas State ( ) At Geneva ( ) At Centenary ( ) 'fotals An undefeated season- the dream of e very coach- was realzed by Mc:\1.lln back n H s Geneva College eleven swept through ten straght g ames, and three o f the opponents were grdron "gants" of that..:ra, Davs-Elkns. Boston Colleg e and B ucknell. Hs undefeated team at Geneva ran up a ten-game total o 237 ponts. Onlr twce durng the season was the Gene, a g oal lne crossed. \N"hle Bo was n hgh school a t 1-ort \Vorth. Texas. he consdered attendng ndana Unversty, but hs hg h sc hool coa ch. Robert L. (Chef) M yers. was apponted a thletc drector at Centre College. a nd that shaped Bo's collegate ca reer. Four other members of Mc:\f lln';; hgh school team followed ~1 yc rs to Centre an< the whole football world knows what 3o and the P rayn' Colonels dd. Bo's leadershp was evdent from the tme he enrolled at Centre. Hs frs t two seasons on the g rdron sq uad he served as actng captan and was elected captan hs last two years. The Athlete jons the hosts o Bo s Kentucky frends n wshng hm contnued success. )..fay ths he ano1 her great season for you, Bo!

4 The -Ke.ntucky _Hgh School Athlete Offcal Organ of the Ken lucky Hgh School A thlelc Assocaton Vol. - No. 3.. OCTOBER, 1940 $1.00 Per Year. FroD the Presdent's Offee What can the Board do about an athlete who contnues to attend a partcular hgh school ater hs parents have moved to another school dstrct? T he a nswer s that the Board cannot do a nythng unless t can be proved that Rule XV has been volated. Free tuton s not n tself p roof of the volaton of ths rule though t can be used to support the charge that undue nfluence has been used. f t s the custom for a school to gve free tuton to all pupls who reman n the dstrct af.ter ther parents move to another communty, the school may g.ve free tuton to a tl1lctes after the parents leave the dstrct. However, t should be noted tha t the Board has consstently encouraged athletes to attend school n the dstrct where ther parents lve. T hs polcy has, n a number of cases, deprved a school o f the servces of a star athlete after the.team has been bult around hm. Even when the athlete contnues hs connecton wth the old school untl graduaton, there s always a measure of ll wll because he ddn't follow hs parents. t seems, therefore, that prncpals and coaches should encourage athletes to transfer to the new school when the famly moves unless the new s chool s defntely nferor to the old. * * * The presdent's offce rarely ever tres to justfy the rule under whch an athlete s declared elgble or nelgble. That means that the presdent's rulngs are usually very short, and may possbly seem a lttle blunt. He does not want hs rulngs to appear to be blunt. On the other hand, he doesn't wa nt to waste your tme by rectng a rgumen ts you already know. He answers nqures by statng that a boy s elg ble or nelgble and ctes tbe rule governng the case. Hs rulngs are always based on specfc questons and cover only the ponts rased n the nqury. An opnon <that an athlete s elgble under one rule doesn't necessarly mean that he s elgble under all rules. T he Board of Control wll hold ts next m eetng n Lexng ton at the Phoenx Hotel at 8 :00 P. M., October 24th. S nce only one meetng has been held ths yea r, there s an accumulaton of questons on whch the Board must r ule. By the way, one of the thngs dscussed at nearly every meetng s the applcaton of the rules to specfc cases. t s out of these dscussons that pol ces are fonned and nterpretatons a re made and become fxed. f any school feels that t should appeal.to the Board to modfy some nterpretaton or decson, the Board wll certanly hear the appeal. T hs has always been a democratc organzaton and t must contnue to functon that way. * * * * t s justly dffcult to get permsson to change an alleged error n the certfcaton of an athlete. T hat s especally true when a school has certfed for two or three years that an athlete wll become nelgble by reason of age on a certan date and then when that date s at hand a petton s made to change the prevous certfcaton so that the athlete w ll have another season or two of elgblty. A score of such pet.tons are rejected every year because of nsuffcent proof that the new date requested s the correct date. t should be noted here that the Board's polcy n ths matter s not a reflecton upon the ntegrty of the prncpal whose petton has been rejected. So far as the wttcr can recall, only one prncpal or superntendent has ever tha1ked us for an unfavorable decson but we prefer to thnk that n many cases we are protectng prncpals w ho, because of local pressure, have passed on to the Board for ts decson these case of doubtful mert. Of course, when a prncpal beleves that hs boy s elgble he should attempt to make out the best possble case for hm. We hardly antcpate that any prncpal wll knowngly fal to do ths. There are a t least two boys playng n Kentucky now who would not have been playng f ther prncpals had not stuck to ther cases untl suffcent evdence was produced to cause a reversal of unfavorable decsons. We owe t -to our players to make as clear presentaton of ther cases as possble. Ths can only be done when we know the elgblty rules. Let us take a case n pont. Recently a boy was declared nelgble for one yea r because he ha d left school A where he was a member of the basketball team last year and had gone to school B wthout a correspondng cha nge n t he address of hs par ents. T hs decson was later reversed when the case was re-submtted wth an addtonal statement that school A was dscontnued at the close of school last sprng. Ths mportant fact had not been presented at all n the frs t. request for a rulng on the boy's elgblty. ----:---- NATONAL ATHLETC SCHOLARSHP SOCETY s your school a member of the Natonal Athletc Scholarshp Socety? f not, t s a smple matter to jon- smply wrte H. A. s,...-affeld, Executve Secretary. P rncpal of Hgh School, Farfeld, Conn., askng for elgblty blanks. A charter certfcate, and membershp card wll be ssued for each boy, a nd a card for the school bulletn board. The purpose of the N. A. S. S. : 1. To foster hgh scholarshp among boy athletes. 2. T o stmulate a desre for balanced tranng. 3. To elevate the deals of sportsmanshp. 4. To develop more outstandng leaders n the secondary schools of the Unted States.

5 Page Two "The 'KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE OcTOBER, 1940 Vol.. No. 2. P ublahed monthly, e.xcept June and July, by the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc AssOCJaton Offce of Publcaton, Carrollton, Kentucky Entered as second-class matter August 18, 1939, at the post offce at Carrollton, Kentucky, under the Act of Marca 3, Edtor ,..._.. RUSSELL E. BRDGES 32 ndana Avenue, Fort Thomas, Kentucky BOARD OF CONTROL Presdent \V. F. O'Donnell, Rchmond Vce-Presdent Russell E. Brdges, Fort Thomas Secretary-Treasurer.. _... Theo. A. Sanford, Carrollton Drectors- Jobn A. Dotson, Benham; Vv. B. Owen, Horse Cave; ]. Matt Sparkman, Benton. Subscrpton Rates.. $1.00 per Year FRONT COVER The pcture on the front cover s that of Em1al Allen the sophomore sensaton at the Unversty of Kent~cky last year. Because of hs sze, Allen had to sell hmself to coaches and fans alke by hs brllant performances before he was accepted as a t rplethreat star n hs own rght. Ths lttle 155-pound package of human dynamte who promses to be Ken!l:ucky's number one aeral threat ths season, s as famous n hs home state of Tennessee for hs golfng ablty as he s for hs passng ablty. He was runner-up n the Tennessee open at Chattanooga n played the top spot on the Wldcat golf team last year and was a contrbutng factor -to two Kentucky vctores over the Unversty of Tennessee golf team. ----:---- NSDE COVER PCTURE When football conversaton turns to quarterbacks or coaches the standard of comparson s Centre's mmortal Bo McMlln. We're glad to gve the Athlete readers a recent closeup of Bo n hs workng clothes. Matchng wts wth Schmdt, Berman, Bble and the other grdron greats have put some grey hars n hs head but n the words of Bo hmself, "Why worry about a lttle snow on the roof when there's plenty of fre n the furnace?" ----: From a College Coach n Kentucky "We enjoy the Athlete so much. t s worth a great deal to the athletc nterests of the state. t s the only medum n the state for genune athletc publcty. hope the hgh school coaches and prncpals realze ths as well as we college athletc people do." Thanks, coach. We hope they do too, and further hope that t may contnue to mert your approval. ----:---- OBJECTVES OF THE ATHLETC PROGRAM n modern educatonal theory and practce t has become the custom to "look at" varous phases of the program. So we read that the "Superntendent Looks at Supervson," The Prncpal Looks at Admnstraton," "The Teached Looks at Falures," etc. and etc., ad nfntum. Perhaps t would be well for all of us to stop occasonally and "look at" our athletc objeotves. Just what do we expect to accomplsh through our varous programs of athletcs? Some schools, no doubt, look upon the nterscholastc athletc program as one p hase of the physcal educaton program; others may leave athletcs to "outsde" nfluences wth wha,tever good or evl may attend the contests. t s to be supposed that one of the mmedate objectves of all organzed teams s to wn as many games as possble n the gven sport, and to a ttan a hgh standng n the conference or league. Such an am s commendable-necessary, n fact, to successful competton, but no season should ever be consdered a complete success or falure dependng upon the number of vctores or losses. A long wth the am to wn nter-school contests should go the objectves of frendly rvalry, good sportsmanshp, mproved school and communty relatonshps, and the formng of new and closer frendshps. f all, or any of these objectves are establshed n the athletc seasons of then the year may be judged successful regardless of the wn and loss columns. Among the general objectves of The New York Publc Hgh School Athletc Assocaton are men.toned: to encourage partcpaton n a thletc games on the part of as many pupls as possble, to promote the observance of good sportsmanshp n all athletc contests, to study and develop the rules for contests n order to make them adaptable to hgh school contests, an9 to mantan mnmum essental standards of elgblty. Kentucky Hgh School P rncpals wll fnd n the lttle handbook of ther own makng a lst of r ules and regulatons wh,ch serve as the mnmum essen- 1als for a thletc elgblty. However, the conduct of a sound athletc program ncludes far more than the mere observance of a lst of prnted r ules. To quote F. R. Wegner of the New York Hgh School Athletc Assocaton : "The concepton of ''bona fd e' must reman a trust wth the prncpals and a thletc drectors throughout the state. The men who have an actve part n schoolboy athletcs can be the strongest nfluence for good morale and hgh deals of sportsmanshp n t he schools; wthout ther postve nfluence, the result wll be demoralzng and the record a losng one." Each superntendent and each prncpal must decde for hmself just w hat wll be the objectves of the athletc program n hs own school. For the beneft of those who want a "ready-made" code, the Handbook of the Mchgan Hgh School Athletc Assocaton provdes a gude. ts careful readng and consderaton should a d school men n arrvng at a set of objectves whch they want to acheve through ther own. at hletc programs. ----:---- AN ATHLETC CODE FOR THE PRNCPAL 1. wll have a complete understandng of the athletc polcy of ths school system and of the ndvdual responsblty of all concerned. 2. wll be honest n my certfcaton of contestants and base that certfcaton on complete nformaton concernng the student's athletc and scholastc hstory. Questonable cases wll be referred to the State Drector before the prvlege of competton s g ven. 3. wll gve my loyal support to the coach n all hs efforts to carry out the state and local athletc polces. 4. l wll make every effort to nstruct the student body n ther responsbltes n makng the athletc program a valuable one and pont out desrable types of conduct at "home" and "away" games. (Contnued on page ten)

6 for OCTOBER, 1940 From the Secretary's Offee The followng schools are members of the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton for the year endng June 30, Prncpals of member schools should check ~ths lst carefully to see f the names of schools wth whch they have scheduled games are ncluded. The lst was compled and sent to the prnter on October 7th. A supplementary lst of members jonng n October wll appear n the November ssue of the magazne. Adarvlle Brooksvlle Cub Run A. J. Jolly Broughtontown Cumberland (Calforna) (Crab Orchard) Cynthana Almo Buena Vsta(R. 3, Danvlle Alvan Drew Cynthana) Davess County (Pne Rdge) Buffalo (Owensboro) Alvaton Burgn Dawson Sprngs Anchorage Burkesvlle Dayton Annvlle nstt'te Burlngton Dxe Heghts Ashland Burnsde (R.5,Covngt'n) Athens (R. 5, Butler Dorton Lexngton) Butler Drakesboro Auburn (Prnceton) Dry Rdge Augusta Calhoun Dudley (Ary) Augusta Tlgbam Calvert Cty Dundee (Paducah) Campbell County Dunmor Bagdad (Alexandra) dupont Man. Tr. Balkan Campbellsburg (Lousvlle) Ballard County Campbellsvlle Earlngton (LaCenter) Camp Dck Rob- Eddyvlle Bandana nson Edmonton Barbourvlle (Bryantsvlle) Ekron Bardstown Caneyvlle Elzabethtown Bardwell Cannel Cty Elkhorn Barlow Carlsle (R.9, Frankf'<t) Barret Man'l Tr. Carr Creek Emnence (Henderson) Carrollton Eubank Beaver Dam Carter Evarts Beechmont Catlettsburg Ewng (Hawesvlle) Cave Cty Ezel Beechwood Cayce Fardale (Ft. Mtchell) Center Hll (Coral Rdge) Belfry (R. 5, Pars) Farvew Bell County Central Cty (Bondvlle) (Pnevlle) Central Falmouth Bellevue (Clnton) FarmersVlle Benham Central Park (R.l, Prncet'n) Berea (McHenry) Farmngton Berea College Chandler's Chap'! Faxon Academy (Russelvlle) (R. 7, Murray) Berry Chapln Feds Creek Bethel Clark County (Ngh) Bever-Cleaton (Wnchester) Felts (Bever) Clarkson (Corbn) Black Star Clay County Ferguson (Alva) (Manchester) (Luretha) Blane Clay Fern Creek Blandvlle Clfty (Buechel) Bloomfeld Clnton County Fnchvlle Boston (Albany) Frst Creek Bourbon County Clntonvlle (Mllersburg) Cobb Flat Gap Bowlng Green Columba Flat Rock Breathtt Combs (Fredona) (Jackson) Connersvlle Flemng (Blue Dam'nd) Breckenrdge Co. (R.l, Cynthana) Flemngsburg (Hardnsburg) Corbn Fordsvlle Breckenrdge Tr. Corda Forkland (Morehead) Cornth (Grav'l Swtch) Breedng Cornshvlle Fort Knox Bremen Crob Orchard Frankfort Brewers Crttenden Frankln Brdgeport (R. 2, Crockett Frederck Fraze Frankfort) Cromwell (Cloverport) Brstow Cuba Fredona Brodhead (R.l, Mayfeld) Fulton Gallatn County Krksvlle Mdway (Warsaw) Knfley Mlburn Gamalel Knox Central Mllersburg Garth (Barbourvlle) Mll Sprngs (Georgetown) Kuttawa Mlton Garrett Lafayette Mnerva Geo. H. Goodm'n (Lexngton) Montcello (Bg Clfty) LaFayette Morehead Glasgow Lancaster Moreland Glendale Laurel Creek Morgan Gleneyre (R. 2, (Mll Pond) Morganfeld Shelbyvlle) Lawrenceburg Morgantown Glensfork Lebanon Junct'n Mt. Eden Graham Lee County Mt. Sterlng Great Crossng (Beattyvlle) Mt. Vernon (R.J,Georget'n) Letchfeld Mt. Washngton Greensburg Lesle County Mt. Zon Greenvlle (Hyden) (Holland) Hadley Lewsburg Munfordvlle Hall Lly Murray (Grays Knob) Lvermore Nancy Hamlton Lvngston New Castle (Unon) Lvngston Co. New Haven Hanson (Smthland) (Unon) Hardn Lloyd Memoral New Lberty Harlan (Erlanger) Newport Harrodsburg London Nebo Hartford Lone Oak Ncholasvlle Hazard (R. 6, Paducah) No. Mddletown Hazel Lowes Nortonvlle Hazel Green Loyall Ol Sprngs (E. Bernstadt) Ludlow Okolona (R. 4, Headquarters Lynn Camp Lousvlle) (Carlsle) (Corbn) Olve Hll Heller Lynn Grove Olmstead Henry Clay (R. 3, Lynch Oneda nsttute Shelbyvlle) Lynnvale Ormsby Vllage Henry Clay (Whte Mlls) (Anchorage) (Lexngton) McCreary Co. Owensboro Hghland (Whtley Cty) Owenton (Waynesburg) McDowell Owngsvlle H~hland nsttu- McKell Owsley County tton (Guerrant) (Fullerton) (Boonevlle) Hs:hlands Mackvlle Pantsvlle (Ft. Thomas) McVegh Pars Hndman (Pnsonfork) Parksvlle Hsevlle Madson Parmleysvlle Htchns (Rchmond) (Coopersvlle) Hdgenvlle Madsonvlle Peaks lvfll Holmes Magnola (R.l, Frankf't) (Covngton) Male Pellvlle Hopknsvlle (Lousvlle) Pembroke Horse Branch Maron Perryvlle Horse Cave Martha Norrs Pkevlle College Howell Memoral Academy Howevalley (Marrowbone) Pkevlle (Cecla) Martn Plot Oak (R. 2, nez Martwck Water Valley) rvne Mason Pnevlle rvngton Mattoon Pleasant Vew Jackson (R.4, Maron) Pleasurevlle Jamestown Mayfeld Poole Jeffersontown May's Lck Poplar Creek ] enkns Maysvlle (Carpenter) Jenny's Creek (Leander) Maytown (Langley) Powell County (Stanton) Johns Creek Meade County Prestonsburg (Meta) (Brandenburg) Prchard Juncton Cty Meade Memoral (Grayson) Kavanaugh (Wllamsport) Raceland (La wrenceb'rg) Melber Renaker ( R. 6, Kevl Memoral Cynthana) Kngston (Hardyvlle) Rchardsvlle (R. 1, Berea) Mddleburg Rch Pond Krksey Mddlesboro Rneyvlle

7 \ Page Four Rochester Rockfeld Rockhold Rockport Royalton Rugby Unvers'y School (Lousvlle) Russell Russell Sprngs Russellvlle Sacramento Sadevlle St. Charles (Lebanon) St. Frances (Owensboro) St. Joseph's (Owensboro) St. J oseph's Prep. School (Bardstown) St. Mary's (Pagucah) St. Xaver (Lousvlle) Salt Lck Salvsa Salyersvlle Sandy Hook Sedala Scence Hll Scottsvlle Shady Grove Sharpe (R. 1, Calvert Cty) Sharpsburg Shelbyvlle Shepherdsvlle Shopvlle Short Creek Smon Kenton (ndepend'nce) Smpson Co\mty (Frankln Snkng Fork (R. 5, Hopknsvlle) Slaughters Solar (Busy) Somerset Sonora So. Portsmouth Sprngfeld. Stamp'g Ground Stanford Stearns Stnnett Settlement(Stnnett) Stuart Robnson (Blackey) Sturgs Sulphur Summer Shade Sunfsh Sunrse (R. 2, Cynthana) Taylorsvlle Temple H ll (R. 4, Glasgow) Todd County (Elkton) Tollesboro Tolu Tompknsvlle Trapp (Wnchester) Trenton Trgg County (Cadz) Trmble County (Bedford).Unversty Hgh (Lexngton) Upton Valley (Valley Stat'n) Va111:eburg-Lews "County (Vanceburg).Van Lear Versalles Vper - Vrge Waco Waddy W allns (Wallns Creek) W ahon-verona (Walton) Warfeld Washngton vvaynesburg vv caverton (R. 3, Henderson) Webbvlle Western (R. 5, Hckman) Western (Sna) West Lousvlle W est Pont Wheatcroft Wheelwrght Whtesburg Whtesvlle Wcklffe Wndy Wngo Wllamsburg \'Vllamstown Wllsburg Wlmore Wnchester Wtherspoon (Buckhorn) Woodbne \'Voodburn Wurtland Yeaman SUPPLEMENTARY LST REGSTERED FOOTBALL OFFCALS These offcals have regstered snce the September report was made. Ths lst was compled on October 7. Offcals regstered after ths date rnay present ther regstraton cards as evdence of membershp untl the November report s made. Adams, Earl, 213 W. Broadway, Bardstown. Allen, Chas. M., 1322 Folsom Street, Knoxvlle, Tenn. Andrews, C. W., Russellvlle. Andrews, J. B., 1508 South Thrd Street, Lousvlle. Applegate, Sparky, Foster Avenue, Bardstotvn. Banko, Gus, Bosse Hgh School, Evansvlle, ndana. Barney, Jm, 2629 Country Club Court, Ashland. Beersdorfer, Jm, R. 14, Box 244-A, Cncnnat, Oho. Betts, Gordon, Mllersburg. Bradwood, Charles, 301 Wayne Street, Glasgow. Bruner, Edgar L., A. & R. Offce, Ft. Knox, Kentucky. Burch, Clarence 0., Barbourvlle. Chambers, Boyd B., 641 Man Street, Cncnnat, Oho. Cocanougher, Everett, Washngton. Cox, Chrs H., Madsonvlle. Cox, Clff J., 405 Man, Prnceton. Crst, F. W., 2532 Algonqun, Ashland. Crowdus, Hugh, 1160 College. Street, Bowlng Green. Cubbage, George A., Letchfeld. Dandelet, Tom, Marshall College, Huntngton, W.Va. Dyer, Wllam, 3023 Woodbne, Knoxvlle, Tenn. Ells, Lesle M., West Second Street, Central Cty. Ells, Thomas B., Bardstown. Elmore, J. W., Box 1566, Knoxvlle, Tenn. The KENTUCKY lllgh SCHOOL._ ATHLETE Fawl,>Us.h, D. B., Benham. Flemng; James, Flemng. Frank, L. P., 449 South Fourth, Lousvlle. Fuller, Woodrow, Corbn.. Geverts, Jm, 3760 Drake Avenue, Cncnnat, Oho. Glb, Elmer T., 308 South Ashland, Lexngton. Gosger, Paul, 1218 nglenook, Cncnnat, Oho. Grgsby, Lee W., 209 S. Thrd Street, Bardstown. Groves, F. C., Drud Hlls, Lousvlle. Gruber, Herbert C., 1915 Rchmond Drve, Lousvlle. Hackensmth, Charles Wm., 403 Penn. Ct., Lexngton. Harrs, Jack R., Chapman Hway, Knoxvlle, Tenn. Hatcher, Cassus B., Pkevlle. Henold, Fred W., 101 W. 70th Street, Cncnnat, 0. Hoendorf, R. L., 3436 Prce Avenue, Cncnnat, 0. Hogan, J ohn E., 1656 Jonathan Avenue, Cncnnat, 0. Holland, Tom, Pkevlle. Hooper, T. C., 116 E. Water Stree t, Mayfeld. Johnson, Denman, Crm. Ct., Knoxvlle, Tenn. Johnson, W. A., 602 East Parkway, Lousvlle. Jones, Frank D., 1014 Gratz St., Knoxvlle, Tenn. Kemerer, J. Paul, 1206~ S. 7th Street, ronton, Oho. Kurachek, Pete, 403 Penn. Ct., Lexngton. Lawrence J. D., 14 Nokoms Crcle, Knoxvlle, Tenn. Lawrence;.. Frank J.. College Heghts, Bowlng Green. Lawson, L.. E., 210 Ford Street, Corbn. McConnell, G. W., Greentree Manor, Lousvlle. McGhee, Lawrence, 217 Beat.ty Avenue, Danvlle. McKown, C. H., Wayne, West Vrgna. McNabb, Edgar, Bellevue Hgh School, Bellevue. Maddox, Harry, 536 Herndon Drve, Evansvlle, nd. Malone, Fred H., Bypro. Mavar, Fred Jr., 1160 Ky. Street, Bowlng Green. Moeller, Wnton L., 3502 Vctora Pl., Cncnnat, 0. Moore, Alfred H., 1554 State Street, Bowlng Green. Moore, Wm. A., Central Park, Lousvlle. Newman, J. Avery, 415 Central, Harlan. Oakley, Carlos, Hawesvlle. Perdue, Paul, Cadz. Perkns, Wllam Anton, Catlettsburg. Pckerll, W. E., Letchfeld. Potter, Lexe, Whtesburg. Quast, John H., 110 Crescent Court, Lousvlle. Reynolds, Wayne, 1102 Washngton, Sturgs. Roe, Everett W., Jr., 210 Crescent Court, Lousvlle. Scheman, Leo A., 449 South 4th Street, Lousvlle. Shelds, Harry A., Hawesvlle. Shuey, John vv., Wheelwrght. Shull, Bll, 2518 Parkvew, Knoxvlle, Tennessee. Shultz, 0. M., Jr., Bardstown. Slverman, Joe, th Street, Huntngton, W. Va. Sosnn, H. A., Sutclffe's, Lousvlle. Sparks, Harry M., rvngton. Spray, Max L Hackworth, Ashland. Strecher, Abe, 1623 South 2nd Street, Lousvlle. Taylor, Glenn, Matewan, \'V. Va. Taylor, Rumsey, 704 Locust, Prnceton. Thompson, A. W., 215 W. Adar. Lousvlle. Thompson, Wm. H., 519 \'V. 4th Street, Owensboro. Threlkeld, W. H., 1910 South 2nd Street, Lousvlle. Throgmor.ton, Ranne, Mayfeld. Tollver, Mllard, Whtesburg. Turner, Robert B., R. 1, Sna. Vnson, Jarrel, Lousa. Wadlngton, James, 119 Waller, Lexngton. Walker, J. Earl, 5th and College Sts., Pantsvlle. Wasson, H. L., Box 105, ndependence. Watters, Rchard W., 4372 Schenck, Deer Park, Oho. Webb, C. A, Box 1179, Lexngton. Webb, C. Buford, 502 S. Ralroad Street, Earlngton. Well~an, Earl, 1310 Enslow Blvd., Huntngton, W.Va. W esshng, Harry E., 2828 W erk Road, Cncnnat, 0. \'Vestfall, D. F., Route 3, Box 352. Charleston, W. Va. Wnkenhofer, Arnold, Bowlng Green. Wlson, Barney E., Unon College, Barbourvlle. W lson, Jm, Black Star Hgh School, Alva. Wse, Hugh, 118 E. 21st Street, Owensboro. York, Howard A., 106 E. Green Street, Prnceton.

8 for OCTOBER, 1940 THE FORW" ARB PASS By AB KRWAN; Head Coach, Unversty of Kentucky Page Fve For the purpose of convenence shall dvde the subject nto four parts.!-mechancs of passes, 11- Mechancs of recevng, -Protecton of the passer, and V-Strategy of the pass. -- do not feel that the manner n whch the passer places hs hand on the ball s of vtal mportance. have seen good passers use three or four dfferent grps, and they all got excelent results. Probably the most common grp s the placng of the ends of the four fngers on the laces of the ball wth the thumb encrclng the ball and grppng t on the opposte sde. Ths s a good method and f the boy s startng fr.orn scratch beleve wol!ld teach ths method, as the feel of the lace under the fngers gves the new passers the feelng of good purchase. However, f the boy prefers to place the thumb on the laces and the X fngers extendng around to the far sde do not change hm. Ths s a good grp and has been employed by some very fne passers. There are also some who lke to place the ndex fnger on the back end of the ball wth the long axs of the ball lyng on a lne from the tp of that fnger to the heel of the hand. Also some passers lke to have the pont of the ball between the frst two fngers. All of these methods are sound and f the boy s able to control the ball by usng any of these grps he should be permtted to do so: The mportant thng s that he must grp the ball, not palm t n hs hand. Consequently the larger the passer's hand s the better he should be able to control the ball. Whle fadng nto poston for the throw the passer should carry the ball chest hgh, and should place the ball n hs passng hand at the same tme. n makng the throw the ball should be rased quckly to a pont behnd the ear and close t o the head. When the ball s n ths poston t should be thrown quckly, as any delay wth the ball n ths poston s a sgnal to the defense that a pass s to be thrown. n throwng, the passer, f he s rght handed, should have hs rght foot back and should be well set n a balanced poston. 'As the ball s thrown he should step n the drecton of the throw wth hs left foot and follow through. Of course f the passer s left handed the opposte foot work should be used. A great many boys develop the habt of throwng sde armed. Wth a great deal of pra_ctce they are able to get reasonable results wth ths sde arm throw, but t should be changed regardless. The sde arm throw s not nearly as accurate as the over hand delvery and t s much easer for an ncomng lneman to block such a pass. A good drll for effectng the mechancs of throwng s to have the passers lne up about tel or ffteen yards apart and throw the ball back and forth wth the coach present and crtczng ther,delvery. -l- The art of catchng a pass s equally as dffcult and as mportant as the throwng of the ball. To be a recever a boy must have a delcate sense of touch n hs hands so that they nstnctvely gve wth the ball at the nstant of contact. The ball should always be caught n the hands, not snatched at, and then brough~ n to the body.. One very mportant pont.to stre.ss 1s that the re~e1ver keep lookng at the ball unt1l he has caught 1t. Too often the recever takes hs eye off the ball at the last mnute to see where the defensve men are cornng from and what path he must choose after he has caught the ball. Of course when he does ths he does not catch t. As mportant as catchng the ball s the maneuverng of the recever. To get nto the open he should start out n a gven drecton at about three-quarter speed and then at a gven spot ether fake n a dffer ~rn drecton and then burst at full speed n the orgu~al p~th or else at the apponted spot to change hs d1rect10n at a very sharp angle and then to burst at full speed. Ths last maneuver wll requre a great d_eal o~ wor~ to keep th~ recever from runnng n a Crcle 111 wh1ch case he S easly covered. -- Of course the ndvdual assgnments of the protector wll vary wth the postons of the defensve men, but aganst a stand- X ard sx man lne defense and usng a balanced lne these assgnments wll work satsfactorly. The blockng of the men n the lne should be what s called passve, that s the blocker does not charge to meet the defense but wat an nstant untl the defensve man has commtted hmself to a certan path then apples hs block. Hs ob-

9 Page SU& ject beng not to mov~ the defensve lneman b.ut to keep hm from reachng the passer who s some dstance back. The backs and any lneman who s pullng out of the lne to protect should bear the same thought n mnd. They are not tryng to move the deferrse but to keep them from gettng to the ball carrer. They should therefore look mmedately for the man they are to block, lettng hm commt hmself, then apply ther block across hs path. - V- n ths artcle wll not attempt to cover the quarterback feature of the pass. That s, when to throw a pass, what knd of a pass, and to what recevel wll merely deal wth the types of pass whch a team should have n ts repertore. beleve that the passes whch any team employs should resemble bascally plays whch they employ n ther runnng attack. For nstance most teams employ a wde sweepng run. beleve therefore that a team should have a runnng pass whch looks qute smlar at the start to the runnng play. n the dagram below have drawn such a runnng play and pass.. J( A great many teams use a wng back reverse, f so a reverse pass such as s drawn below would ft well nto ther scheme of play. X X X Spnner plays have become an mportant part of of everyone's offense. Because of ths a spnner pass s almost ndspensable to the attack. Below s an example of a good spnner pass. X X am not recommendng that you em.ploy these partcular passes. am merely suggestng that you X lc TM KENTUC~Y HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE us-e passes- whch n the beg~nng resemble your own runrung plays. Conversely f a passng attack has a great number _of. passes where the thrower merely steps back and throws wthout any partcular decepton on hs part would nclude n the runnng attack a few plays where he fakes a pass and then runs. The two wll work well together. ----:---- From... COACHES ASSOCATON The Kentucky Coaches Assocaton wshes to o~cr the followng suggestons n regard to the selecton of the coaches for the Shrners All-Star "Football Gane to be played n Lexngton ths fall: Dvde 1he state n east and west sectons wth Manual n the west and.male and St. X. n the east. Dvde eacn one of these sectons nto four dstrcts, these dstrcts to be so dvded that there wll be as equal number of schools n each dstrct as can possbly be arranged. A coach shall be selected from each of these dstrcts by popular vote. The four coaches n each secton shall be the coaches for the All-Star Game and the coach recevng the hghest number of votes shall be the head coach. No coach can be elected to coach the ~-Star Game two consecutve years. Through ths way we are of the opnon that t wll be stmulatng to a gr~ter number of schools n ths All-Star Game. -. ;..~- The Coaches Assocaton wshes to urge all coaches and basketball offcals to attend ther dstr~t or sectonal basketball rules clnc ths fall. The Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Asoscaton has gone to consderable expense to offer. ~hs servce to the offcals of the State of Kentucky. t s a very benefcal servce to all concerned and f we do not show more nterest n the clncs than we have n the past doubt f the Assocaton wll feel justfed n contnung to hold these clncs. The Kentucky hgh schools should nsst on the offcals to be regs tered offcals and that all offcals attend at least one of these cjncs. * * * * A.moton pcture on the nterpretaton of basketball rules was shown durng the coachng- school at the Unversty of Kentucky ths summer. All those that saw t were very favorably mpressed >vth the pcture. We have been able to secure ths pcture to be shown at each one of the basketball. clncs. We.may be able to use ths pcture for a longer perod than the clncs. We beleve that ths pcture s well worth your tme to attend these clncs to see t. ~ A. L. LASSTER, Presdent Kentucky Coaches Assocaton :---- Too many people tch for what they want wthout scratchng for t. What knd of a school would ths one be f every one n t were just lke me? * f your lfe's a grnd, be thankful for the oppor-; tunty to sharpen your wts on t.

10 for OCTOBER, 1940 NATONAL FEDERATON NTERSCHOLASTC ATHLETC ORGANZATON P robably the outstandng athletc development of the last decade s the rapd growth and perfecton of a hgh school athletc organzaton. At a tme when there are powerful organzatons n all r elated ndustres and professons, the schools would be helpless and ncapable of progress f they were not banded together n a way to make unted and cooperatve acton possble. Man-power and nsttuton-power s dsspated when there s no co-ordnatng agency and there s wasteful duplcaton of effort and lack of unty.n acton. Progress s based on teamwork. Cvlzaton s cooperaton. The dfference between cvlzed socetes and prmtve trbes s a dfference n artculaton of ndvdual effort. The men n charge of school athletcs have fortfed themselves aganst any bltzkreg whch mght be launched by those who would explot the athletc actvtes for poltcal, fnancal or other personal reasons. The athletc: actvtes have been kept wthn reasonable lmts and n prope.r relatonshp to the entre educatonal program. There has been mpressve evdence of ths n the last few years. n the early thrtes when each branch of the school program was subjected to metculous examnaton to determne whether t was an educatonal essental or a supplementary fad or frll, the hgh school athletc program came through wth honorary decoratons. More recently these actvtes agan were subjected to the spotlght or publcty when matt ers pertanng to ncome tax and admsson taxes were revved by agences on the search for addtonal ncome. W hen all of the facts were presented, the hgh school athletcs were placed n the same category 'vth the academc, scentfc or smlar departments of the school That s where they belong. They are an ntegral part of school lfe and the educatonal proceues. f anyone thnks ths condton has come about by mere accdent, he has only to consder the fact that many other forms of athletcs have faled to qualfy. T hese nclude the programs of the larger colleges and unverstes whch were affected by a Unted States Supreme Court r ueng handed down n the case of the U nve r~ sty of Georga. Ths dec s~ on s based on the belef of the court' that such actvtes are not drectly controlled by the governng body of the school and are an nsttuton operatng n conjuncton wth the school rather than as an ntegral part of t. No one who has observed the thorough way n whch the hgh school men have planned and admnstered these actvtes can have any doubt as to ther motves. They have, from fr st to last, nssted on sports. supervson and drecton rather than sports promoton. T he dfference s ob~ vous. n one, the attenton s centered on keepng the actvtes wthn reasonable lmts and makng t hem le: -ln ll!m'2 0 l'tlll llle OlJ'CEa 1lS J'El!W'lar 'OOmU. = e USl.rnllW'JqN BASam.1LL 11JUS /:;. am: l'll.!lm:d ll>l'1!j lul1ztj mnster to the welfare of the partletpants. n the other, the nterest s on attractng nterest through sze and spectacular nature of the event and the contrbuton, n money or prestge, whch s made to the promoter. To nsure a benefcal type of program Kentucky hgh schools are grouped n a State Hgh School Ath letc Assocaton. They, wth thrty-sx other state assocatons, form the Natonal Federaton. T hrough the natonal group, matters pertanng to nterstate contests are properly regulated and each member state profts frol'!1 the cooperatve actvtes of all. From tme <to tme, these columns wll carry materal desgned to keep readers nformed relatve to the dversfed actvtes n whch Kentucky s cooperatng. The ma p carred n ths ssue shows the membershp of the Natonal Federaton and other facts relatve to ac tvtes of member states. MOLDED FOOTBALL EXPERMENTATON The nventon, perfecton and fnal adopton of the molded basketball has proved to be a great boon to hgh school athletc departments. Approxmately nnety percent of the hgh schools are playng wth one or more of the three types of approved molded basketballs. T he result s an mproved game and a consderable savng n the athletc budget snce these balls are several tmes as durable as the old type ball The molded football has not developed as rapdly. There are several reasons for ths but probably the chef one s that so much attenton of the manufac~ turers has been drected towar d perfecton of the basketball that development of the football. has been delayed. The des and steel molds whch are necessary n the producton of such balls are expensve and all manufacturers have hestated to expand too rapdly untl ntal costs con n e~;t ed wth the producton of the new type basketball have been partally met. t seems qute evdent that t s only a matter of tme untl the molded football wll be just as satsfactory

11 Page Eghl The KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE as the molded basketbal. t 'only requres tme and engneerng attenton. Work along ths lne s progressng at a normal speed. Several years ago varous expermental footballs o~ ths type were made and :sent. out for. tral. The frst balls. were far from satsfactory and several of the. manufacturers almost dscontnued ther efforts, at least untl such tme as they mght complete the t ranston n the factores to the makng of the new type basketball. The tme has now arrved when some of ~he manufacturers are ready to work wth the school organzaton n attemptng to perfect a football. Durng the sprng and early fall several dozen molded footballs were sent out through the state and natonal offces to schoolmen who were wllng to test them under actual playng condtons and to make detaled reports on blanks whch were furnshed. The frst lot of balls brought reports whch ndcate that they need to be further perfected. Changes have snce been made n the wegh(, pressure and method of constructon and the modfed balls are now n the hands of expermenters. Balls of two dfferent types of constructon are n use. Durng the course of the football season addtonal work along ths lne wll be done. The followng report sheet ndcates some of the factors whch enter nto the expermental work: * * * * MOLDED FOOTBALL EXPERMENT General Statement: To assst manufacturers n perfec.tng a molded ball wth desred reacton, data are needed. Approach ths work wth an open mnd and return ths sheet promptly to your state executve offcer who wll nspect t and forward t to the Natonal Federaton Offce, 7 South Dearborn Street, Chcago. How To Collect Data: Secure. a Wntark, Rddell or Last-blt molded football.to test n comparson wth a top grade sewed ball. Use the two balls n practce scrmmage and n varous kckng and passng drlls. Some dependence must be placed on general observaton but facts should be secured befoj'e conclusons are dt:awn. Type of Ball: Check type Molded Ball Used (Wntark, Rddell, Last-hlt) Weght Pressure... Short Crcumferance... Name of Sewed Ball... Weght... Pressure... Short Crcumference... Kckng: Use molded and sewed balls nterchangeably Average punt n yards (From kcker to where t Sewed Ball Molded Ball comes down Average drop-kck Average place-kck Was there any notceable dfference n accuracy?... f there was a dfference whch could be more accurately kcked?... Rea.cton Followng Puntng: vvas there any notceable dfference n the bouncng qualtes when the ball struck the ground followng a kck?..... Comment:... Passng: Sewed Ball Molded Ball Average dstance ball could be passed... f posble, provde target and collect data relatve to accuracy of pass... W as there any dfference n ease of catchng!'... Durablty: Keep record of number of hours molded ball s n use and note ts condton from tme to tme Does t absorb water or sweat? Based On Your Ob~e~aton: s the molded ball rght n reacton or t t too lvely or not lvely enough?... Does the ball have the proper rotatng moton on passng and kckng?... s the shape about rght for hgh school players?.... s the weght about rght? Comments :..... Sgned... SchooL..... * * * * Snce ths matter s of nterest to all schools that purchase football equpment, an appeal s beng made to those coaches wth a scentfc turn of mnd to assst n ths work. Obvously the number of balls whch can be sent by the state or natonal offce wthout charge s lmted. However, molded balls can be secured at a reasonable prce durng the expermental perod and athletc departments wll render a servce by securng one or more of them for purposes of expermentaton. Regardless of the outcome of the tests, the balls should be worth the cost prce for use n practce or even n scheduled games where they may be used by mutual consent. Any coach who s wllng to test one or more of these balls n comparson wt11 any good grade sewed ball may secure blanks on whch to report. These are avalable at your state assocaton offce or they may be secured drect from the Natonal Federaton offce, 7 South Dearborn Street, Chcago, llnos FOOTBALL NTERPRETATONS Sectons of the football rules always cause questons. Some recent nterpretatons have elements of general nterest and have been put n the form of play rulngs whch are ncluded here for the beneft of students of the rules. Play: A receves the snap and throws a legal forward pass ntended for A2 who s a few yards 11 advance of the lne of scrmmage. A2 lea ps n the ar and bats the pass backward to tackle A4 who was on the lne of scrmmage at the snap. s ths a legal play? Rulng: Ths s legal up to the pont where t was touched by A3. A3 s nelgble and consequently t s nterference when he touches the pass. Play: A legal forward pass comes down a few yards n advance of the lne. AZ bats the pass forward and t s completed and advanced by A4. s ths legal? Rulng: Yes. For a number of years the rules have specfed that a pass (ether backward or forward) may be batted n any drecton. The rules of ths year permt a second elgble player to complete a pass after t has been touched by a frst elgble player. Comment: Ths s about the same stuaton as that whch has exsted n connecton wth a lateral pass. Cases have been reported where a lateral pass was thrown close behnd the lne. A teammate batted the lateral forward and thus ganed ground. vvhen ths occurred for the frst tme a couple of years ago, there were a number of expressons 'of fear that ths mght develop to such an extent as to hnder the orderly progress of the game. Such development has not transpred. When the ball s batted, both teams have a rght to ntercept and snce a ball shaped lke the football can not be accurately drected through a bat, there s no great danger n permttng the play. n the case of the forward pass, t s not probable that the play wll be very effectve because f the pass recever has ths much control of the ball, he woulcl ordnarly complete the pass and ether advance or try a lateral,

12 for OCTOBER, 1940 Play: The ball s snapped to Al.and, he.. runs. sdewse for several yards and then kcks or passes. Durng. how. much of ths acton s the ~all loose? Rulng: Techncally the ball s loose whle t s. n the ar from the snap and also whle t s n the ar or rollng on the ground after. the kck or pass. However, to facltate en forcement of penaltes the entre acton s classed as a loose ball play. Ths permts enforcement of the penalty from the prevous spot f a foul occurs any tme durng the play. Play: A's ball on the SO. Al carres t to B's 20 where he fumbles. The fumbled ball travels through the ar to B's 10 where t s caught by Bl. B1 advances to hs 40. Does ths consttute one runnng play? Rulng: n ths case there are three plays nvolved, two runnng plays and one loose ball play. The frst runnng play ends when Al loses possesson. vvhle the bah was n the ar durng the fumble, t s a loose ball play. vvhen Bl secures possesson, a second runnng play starts. f a foul occurs, the spot for enforcng the penalty depends on whether t s durng one of the runnng plays or whether t s durng the loose ball play. As an llustraton, f B fouls durng the frst runnng play, the penalty s enforced from the spot where the ball was fumbled (20-yard lne). However, f he fouled whle the ball was loose durng the fumble, penalty s from the prevous spot n accordance wth the general loose ball rule. f he fouled durng the second runnng play, t s now a foul by the offensve team and the penalty s from the spot where the ball s dead, unless the foul s behnd the spot where dead. n that case the penalty s from the spot of the foul Play : Al s out of bounds or s prostrate near a sdelne. A2 receves the snap and advances to the 20-yard lne. s penalty enforced from the spot where dead? Rulng: No. The foul occurred before the runnng play started and consequently the general rule apples,.e., penalty s enforced from the prevous spot n accordance wth Play: Al throws legal forward pass whch s caught by A2 who was out of bounds whle the ball was n the ar but came back n the feld. After catchng the pass A2 advances to the 5 where he fumbles and B ntercepts. Was ball dead at the spot where caught by A2? Rulng: No.,t s a foul (nterference) when A2 touches the ball but the play should be allowed to go through to completon. Play : Al forward passes to A2 who s also behnd the lne. A2 also forward passes and the ball s caught by tackle A3 who advances to B's 5 and fumbles. The ball rolls nto the end zone where B falls on t. s ths a touchback or a safety? Rulng: Nether. The ball was dead when t was caught by A3. t should be noted that t was dead, not because of touchng an nelgble but because t s an llegal pass caught by the passng team. Ths s an ncompleton n accordance wth the last clause of Play: Can nterference occur behnd the lne of scrmmage? Rulng: nterference can not occur behnd the lne of scrmmage except n the case where an nelgble player behnd the lne nterferes by touchng a forward pass. Play: n order to deceve opponents, Bl sgnals for a far catch but the kck s caught by B2 who then runs for a touchdown. s ths a legal advance? Rulng: No. f B2 also sgnalled, t s a far catch and the ball s dead where caught. f B2 dd not sg- Page Nne nal; the. ball-s.also dead even though t s not a far catch. Play: Al throws legal forward pass nto B's end zone. AZ leaps n the ar and catches t 1 yard behnd the lne. Before he comes to the ground he s ht by B1 so that he frst touches the ground on the 2-foot lne. s ths ntederence and, f not, s t a touchdown? Rulng: nterference of ths type can not occur after the ball s touched. Ths s a touchdown. Comment : Ths s not n conflct wth the rulng that recever s not deemed to have possesson untl hs foot strkes the ground. Ths rulng apples only to plays not complcated by other acts such as the one cted here. BOOK REVEWS Durng the past month several new football books have arrved at the natonal offce and have been examned wth a vew to ther sutablty for use n the hgh school football tranng program. Sx-Man Football by Ray Duncan: Ths book s publshed by the A. S. Barnes Company and the prce s one dollar. The book deals wth smple football fundamentals and devotes an adequate secton to the outlnng of playng formatons whch may be used n the sx-man game. The last few chapters dscuss proper methods of tapng and some frst ad measures. The book s sutable for use n any hgh school but s desgned prmarly for those who are startng football and who are nterested n learnng the game from the begnnng. The book does not deal wth rules of play and the termnology s n harmony wth the nterscholastc football rules. The book s recommended for any sx-man lbrary. Football Offcals' Gude far Three-Offcal Game: Ths book s publshed by Vle-Goller Prntng Co., Kansas Cty, Mssour, and was prepared by Carrol, O'Sullvan, Pendleton and Waldorf. The termnology n ths book s tha.t of the collegate gude and s wrtten from the standpont of college offcatng. The book s not sutable for hgh school use but contans some valuable suggestons for those who are offcatng n college games. Questons and Answers on Football Rules by E. C. Kreger: Ths book s publshed by Lawhead Press, Athens, Oho, and s based on the Natonal Collegate code. A few pages jn the back of the book are devoted to a lst of the provsons n the nterscholastc rules and also n the professonal rules whch dffer from the college code. The book s well wrtten and the play stuatons have been selected to llustrate provsons n the college rules whch mght gve rse to dsputes. The prce of the book s one dollar and t s worth ths amount to those who are prmarly nterested n the college code. t s not recommended for hgh school use. Sx-Man Offcal Gude and Rules Book: Ths book s publshed 'by the Amercan Sports Publshng Company and the prce s ' thrty-fve cents. The college rules are used as the bass for the code. The book s satsfactory for those colleges whch are nterested n sx-man football. t s not recommended for hgh school use. NATONAL TRENDS Post-Season and Pre-Season Contests: The sentment n favor of a defnte lmtaton for the begnnng and endng of each of the major sports seasons contnues to grow. Last year llnos set a date for the endng of both the football and basketball seasons. Football ends on the frst Saturday n December and

13 Page Ten basketba11 ends wth the state fnal tournament. ~ No all-star or post-sea$on games are permtted~ Durng t he past month owa has taken smlar actop.. n fact they have gone a step further. They not only prescrbe lmts to the football season but they also make t llegal for any school to partcpate n any way or to lend ts support to the selecton of all-star teams of hgh school players who mght be brought together for a post-season or pre-season game. ndana has had a smlar rule for a number of years. These actons are n lne wth the polcy of keepng each sport n ts proper place n the school program. t s the feelng of t he schoolmen.that postseason and pre-season games are used more for explotaton than for any contrbuton.to the welfare of players. nterpretaton Meetngs: Great strdes are beng made by most of the states n connecton wth meetngs desgned to mprove game admnstraton. These meetngs follow a pattern whch. has.been found effectve by a few of the states whtch p10neered tb\! work. At these meetngs all of the varous groups whch are nterested n a gven sport are brought together so that there wll be a clear understandng of the polces and practces of the state hgh school assocaton. As a result, unform methods are promoted and contests tend to become good wll events rather than grudge battles. Parochal and Prvate Schools: Last month the owa Hgh School Athletc Assocaton adopted an amendment to ther consttuton whch permts full membershp to approved parochal ~nd prva~e schools. llnos recently adopted a rule wh1ch permtts a type of afflated membershp for such schools. The llnos assocaton makes up an approved lst of the schools not supported by publc taxaton whch are adherng to <the mles of the state hgh school assocaton. A few rule exceptons n connecton wth such matters as lmtaton by dstrcts are permtted. Member hgh schools may schedule contests wth such schools only after they are placed on the approved ls t. Dstrbuton of Rules of Play: Most states have adopted measures for supplyng all regstered offcals wth the nterscholastc rules of play n football and basketball. Some of the states have recently gone a step farther and are supplyng at least one copy to each member hgh school. Among such states are KENTUCKY and Pennsylvana. Cost of ths servce s defrayed n varous ways. n cases where a tournament bonus s sent to each school at the end of each year a small amount may be deducted to take care of the rules servce. Another method s to request that each member school add the proper amount when payng annual dues. Of course, n the case of those states whch have an adequate ncome from the state sponsored tournaments, the servce s provded wthout a ny added payment on the part of member schools. A number of states have adopted the polcy of permttng member schools to purchase the books n quanttes drect from the state offce. Under such crcumstances t s possble for athletc departments to naugurate a sports admnstraton class and to supply each member of the class wth the nterscholastc sport publcatons n that sport. These are used as textbooks durng the gven sports season. Rado Programs. Staton WOC at Davenport, owa, naugurated a new type of program ths year. Durng t hs program the Secretary of the Natonal Federaton, m embers of the staff of the llnos and owa state offces and several other nterscholastc rules authortes were brought n for a panel dscusson of nterscholastc football rules. The program dealt wth the organzaton through whch the states supervse the athletc actvtes and wth the ways n whch nterscholastc. football wll be affected by the 1940 rules. The KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE Ths program ~was sapplemented by. weekly rules programs n charge of the owa state~ offce. These weekly programs were broadcast by the rado staton at. Ames, owa, ~ and coaches and offcals were requred to make reports on ponts brought out n the broadcast. The work appears to have possbltes for further development. ----:---- An Athletc Code for the Prncpal (Contnued from page two) 5. wll endeavor to foresee possble dfferences and msunderstandngs wth other schools a nd, as far as possble, settle them or provde m eans of settlement before they materalze. 6. wll nsst that any msunderstandngs that may arse be settled prvately between offcal representatves of the schools concerned. 7. wll requre the passng of a medcal examna ton and parental consent before a student s allowed to compete. 8. wll have a defnte understandng wth the busness manager or athletc drector about offcals, schedules, fnances, ca~ of felds and gymnasum, handlng of spectators, etc., and gve hm every assstance n carryng out hs dutes. 9. wll consder t unprofessonal.to wthhold any seemngly authentc nformaton from another school whch calls n queston the elgblty of any of ts players. 10. wll attend as many of the athletc contests n whch my school partcpat es as school work wll allow. 11. wll commend opposng schools for outstandng examples of fne ctzenshp. - Handbook of the Mchgan Hgh School Athletc Assocaton. KENTUCKY'S REMANNG ;.-0-0_t_C_D_C_C_O_O_O~~ :~ HOME GAMES lj o October 19-.,.. ~~ George Washngton. Lexngton November 2- Home Comng Alabama Lexngton l, November 9- Georga Tech. Lousvlle 1 Tckets for all games can be secured by wrtng Manager Football Tcket Sales, Unversty of Kentucky... Tckets for Georga Tech game are also on sale at Sutclffe's and Appel's n Lousvlle..;.~-t-D_J_a_c U _ O _ O _ C _O_ U _ O _ O _ C _~., l!

14 for OCTOBER, 1940 Dear Mr.-- Prncpal: Are the athletes on your teams protected? Are you famlar wth the K. H. S. A. A. Protecton Fund, nc.? Your assocaton has helped to make nterscholastc games safe fo~ your boys by: 1. Settng up unform elgblty rule. 2. nsstng that athletc teams be handled under t he supervson of certfed teachers, traned n physcal educaton. 3. Regsterng and tranng competent offcals who know the game and whose nterest and alertness pre vent athletc njures. 4. Studyng from year to year njures occurrng n varous sports and suggestng through the representatves on the rules commttee, changes whch have made the games less hazardous. 5. Cooperatng wth the Natonal Federaton, of whch Kentucky s now a member, n recommendng {or use approved equpment desgned to gve protec {on to the hgh school athletes. All of ths has been most helpful. There remans, however, some hazards n our nterscholas:tc games. Serous njures do occur, though much less frequently than n former years. To assst n protectng Kentucky Hgh School athletes aganst the cost of njures sustaned n games Page.Eleven or n practce perods, the Assocaton has Organzed the K. H. S. A. A. 'Protec.ton Fund, nc., and ha s successfully ope@ted t for one year. That t has been emnently successful no one wll deny. All of the 59 schools protected under ts provsons last year testfy that t has been proftable.to them. Some have suggested that t s the most valuable and forward-lookng contrbuton ever conceved by our assocaton. The experence n other states has establshed ts prac.tcablty and value. n every state served by a Beneft Plan the accdent rato has been decreased. Ths, wthout doubt, reflects the advantages of doctors' examnatons, more careful supervson by the coaches, mpro:vement n playng condtons, all of whch ar e stmulated by the work of the beneft plans. The am of the K. H. S. A. A. Protecton Fund, nc., s to make avalable facltes whdj wll nsure prompt attenton to even the slghtest njury, and to keep the doctor, the parent, the school, and the athlete conscous of the possblty of preventng njures. The ultmate success of ths program depends on YOU, and on other prncpals. f your school can afford to support an nterscholastc team, can you afford NOT to jon n.ths plan? Send today to Secretary Sanford f?r your cards and applcaton forms. Be among the pwneers m one of the fnest projects of your assocaton. KENTU :KY A PONEER N THE ATBLET PBOTE(;TON FELD ' Do you know that the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Asocaton was a poneer n the feld of Athletc nsurance? Refer to your handbook of 1938 or earler, page 5, and read, "n 1932 a plan for Mu~ual Beneft nsurance was adopted at the State Meetmg, but not a suffcent number of schools appled for coverage to put nto acton." Accordng to the mnutes on fle n the secretary's offce at the annual mee.tng n Aprl, 1931, Mr. C.. Henry offered a resoluton that the K. H. S. A. A. adopt such a plan. Ths moton was passed. n accordance wth tradtonal procedure n such matters, Mr. Henry found hmself the charman of a commttee to nvestgate the practcablty and feasahlty of such a plan for Kentucky Hgh Schools, and to make a report at the 1932 annual meetng of the Assoca-ton. That the commttee took ts work serously and dd an excellent job s evdenced by the report whch they made n Aprl, Quotng from the mnutes of ~hat meetng: Mr. C.. Henry read the report of the commttee to nvestgate the feasblty of adoptng some plan of mutual beneft nsurance to he operated by the assocaton. and moved ts adopton. Mr. Champon of Lancaster seconded the moton and t was passed. The plan s as follows : We, the commttee, a pponted by Presdent O'Donnell of ou.r organzaton to nvestgate the feasblty of adoptng some plan of mu.tual beneft nsurance to he operated by the assocaton,desre to report the fndngs and recommendatons of ths commttee. Our plan of study, for several months, has been along three separate lnes, and we are presentng our judgment as a result of fndngs n each branch of our stttdy. n the frst place, we undertook to ascertan whether commercal companes, now n operaton, were sellng group nsurance to athletes n the hgh school feld. From a large group of nqures sent out, we were able to locate no nsurance company n the Unted States whch, at the present tme, s sellng ths class of coverage. n the second place, we nvestgated plans of operaton, whch are now n effect n the Unted Sta-tes. Through the cooperaton of Mr. C. W. Whtten, Secretary of the Natonal Federaton of State Hgh School Athletc Assocatons, we found.that only two members of the Natonal Federaton are, at the present tme, carryng on a group plan of nsurance. The state of llnos, for the past year, operated what they called a mutual assstance pla!j, n wh.ch twenty- nne schools havng football, cooperated. The \..Vsconsn nterscholastc Athletc Assocaton ntated a plan of accdent nsurance durng the school year , and has contnued to operate snce that tme. The comm-ttee found the data furnshed by the Wsconsn Assocaton to be very valuable for comparson wth the estmated cost of such a plan n Kentucky. n the thrd place, a questonnare, regardng types of njures, average cost of njures, and total expense, was sent to each member of the Ke.ntucky Assocaton. The commttee receved ffty reples from schools havng football teams for the present year. The data submtted was compled and we have what we beleve s a rather accurate estmate of athletc njures for the nnety schools whch partcpated n football durng the present school year. From a careful study of data from all sources we desre to make the followng recommendatons:

15 Page Twelve 1. That the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton operate a plan of mutual beneft nsurance for the football season of Tha t the plan be fnanced by chargng a coverage fee to each school ncluded n the plan, the amount of such fee to be determned by the sze of t he football squad. A schedule of fees s ncorporated n another part of ths report. 3. That the plan be electve, and that schools be pem1tted to submt applcaton for partcpaton n the plan up to and ncludng September 30, That the Board of Control be empowered to determne the desrablty of contnung a smlar plan through the basketball season of 1933, wth such modfcatons as experence seems to dctate. 5. That the plan be admnstered by the Secretary of the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton. 6. That the organzaton s to operate as a subsdary of the K entucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton and that the latter organzaton shall assume no fnancal oblgaton n the matter of benefts to njured athletes, but shall be responsble for the prntng, postage and supples ncdental to the carryng ou! of the plan. 7. That the Secretary shall not allow clams for njures untl the close of the football season and un tl each school partcpatng has fl ed ts clam. 8. That no clams for benefts shall be allowed untl all data and forms are fled wth the Secretary, properly flled out and certfed. 9. That, n the event.the coverage fees pad by the partcpatng schools are nsuffcent to satsfy all clams whch are allowed, all avalable funds be pro-rated to the partcpatng schools. 10. That ths mutual beneft plan s an experment and t hat ts contnuaton after the school year be determned at the annual meetng of the assocaton n 1933, upon submsson by the Secretary of a complete fnancal report for the frst year o operaton. 11. That the benefts of ths plan shall be lmted to actual expense nvolved n med.cal servce and that n no case sha ll t exceed the lmt fxed n the table attached. 12. That all benefts be restrcted to members of a squad for whom data s f led wth the Secretary at the openng of the athletc season. SURVEY OF NJURY COSTS Number Tot.Exp. Avg. Cost *Lmt Name of njury njures Beneft l. Broken Bones Arms 11 $ $ Legs Collar Bones Rbs Hands Feet Bruses, Cuts and nfectons Sprans and Dslocatons Other njures: Teeth Head nternal Knee Eye so 10 TOTALS $ $5.16 *Lmt of benefts to be allowed for njury under the Mutual Beneft nsurance Program. The KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE SCHEDULE OF COVER CHARGE WTH DSTRBUTON OF FOOTBALL SQUADS Sze of Squad Coverase Charge No. Schools 20 or under... $ $ to , to to or over $3, Note: The applcaton of ths cover charge for nnetyeght schools would yeld $ Submtted by Commttee: Chas.. Henry, Charman, Madsonvlle Everett Howton, Prnceton Paul Garrett, Versalles. Ths report was favorably consdered and adooted. T he next record of the nsurance program s found n the mnutes of the K. H. S. A. A. meetng of October 1, 1932, under Mutual Beneft Plan for Football Not Accepted By Member School$. T he mutual beneft pla n for football whch was adopted at the annual meetng n Aprl wll not be put nto effect. Early n September each member of the Assocaton receved a blank applca.ton form and a copy of the rule~ - under whch the plan was to operate. Under the rules the applcaton must be submt.ted before October 1. Only one school made a pplcatjon for coverage. Thus for the next seven years Kentucky mantaned an noperatve plan, and n so far as the records show no further attempts were made to put t nto force. --THE PHOENX HoTEL LEXNGTON, KY. Extends greetngs to the Kentucky Hgh School Athetc Assocaton. May your deals be realzed and your actvtes successful. We ~pprecate the prvlege of servng you and sncerely hope that your vsts to The Phoenx wll always be pleasant ones. GEORGE M. LATHAM General Mgr. A. E. (Red) HUKLE Asst. Mgr.!

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17 : _,_.)- )-( )-()- ~... ~._..,_.,.~,~~ --~----,_._-~)~_, 1 _... :- Basketball s Next! Our new fall catalog was maled to all our Kentucky schools about September 1st. Complete basketball needs were covered n ths catalog ajong wth wholesale school prces. Let us know f you dd not get your copy. j vve are repeatng agan n ths ssue 3 hot tems whch we advertsed n the Septem- her "Athlete." There was a bg acceptance to our frst offer and as a result many of the j szes n basketball shoes were deplet ed. However, we stll have plenty of popular szes left. Check over the sze lst under the llustratons and get your order n quck. Ve stll have about 75 of the specal value Basketballs. ' ~. j 1,. No No. 255 No Present stock : 5/5, 8/ /6, REACH "LAST BLT" Present stock : 2/6, 9/ /7, 39/6-2, 50/7, 46/7-2, 83/8, 33/8-2, BASKET BALL 27/7-2, 14/8, 23/10, 10/10-2, 23/11, -t 21/10-2, 5111, 3/ ll-2, 12/12, 6!12-2, 6/13. Close Out LAST YEAH. RETAL j LAST YEAR RETAL H. f t 1 ll CLOSE OUT NOW CLOSE OUT NOW fo~ rep:!c t~ce 1 :e~f{=~~e >~r These arc the best grade all whte Ths s a Converse All-Star black tournament use. A cls- s hoes as made by the T yre Rubber 1, leather basket ball shoe whch was contnued number by the Co. Thev were dscontnued bv that 1. dscontnued bv the factory on ac- 1 t,t.cto1 -}. 1>tJt j)erfect 1 11 facto1 y - snce the sale of whte.shoe5 Collrl t 01- sl1.gl1t COllStl uctl.ol.c1" 11ge'.. t t was not heavy enough to justfy j t ~ ' ea\1:1et. er:([re1'jsopt~lc b~a.' ntchegtft,'aac:~ carryng an nventory. f you can,.! Check over your shoe ne eds wth ~ r use any of the szes above we reel above lst of szes. Get your o1 de r to ry and The Sutclffe ommend them to you as an excep- n quck. These shoes arc real b uys. Company. tona! buy. THE SU~!2!.!FFE co., LOUSVLLE. K.ENT CKV :,~l-,.-..)~.._cl.-.c.._.c~~~,...~,.._...,._..._..l._.t.._.c.._..,._.~,._~,-c,_c)-~-t.-c-- :!