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UNVERS T Y OF KENTUCKY 1939 SQUAD Offcal Organ of the KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETC ASSOCATON. ~ FEBRUARY 1939 ~.l
f) f) J. MATT SPARKMAN Member o f the Board of Control Here are some facts about J. ~fatt Sparkman, n pont of sen cc, the youngest member o f the Board of Control: A nat, e of Calloway County. Graduated from J\ lurray Hgh School n 1922. Gntduated from :\lurray College n 1928. Graduate W()rk n t U tt \ crsty of Kentucky. snmmcrs of 193 1. 1935. 1938. Prncpal, Kew Concconl Tlgh School. 1928. Prncpal, Benton ffg h School. 1929-1939. nclusye. P resdent. 1\lu mn.t\ssocaton. l\'lttrray C<d legc. 1931 and 1936. Drector. Alumn.1\ssocaton. :\'lurray Coll ege. 1937-38. Drector to 1-\:. E. :\.. 1937-1938. }furray College-Basketball. football. track. and baseball. Charman. Hgh School DYson. F. D. E. t\.. 1934. Steward. ~ ethodst Church. Benton. Kentncky. 1931-1939. nclnsve. Member: Mason, \\'. 0. \V.. P h Delta Kappa, Local C, c Club. Hobbes:!Tuntn g. fs hng, g olf, and atlend as many football and basketball games as possble. :\arrcd.
The Kentucky Hgh School Athlete Offcal Organ of the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton Vol. - No. 6. FEBRUARY 1939 $1.00 P er Year. From the Presdent's Offce The next meetng of the Board of Control wll be held n Rchm ond the afternoon and evenng o f February 24th and the mon1ng of February 25th. Ths nformaton s gven so that all member schools may have opportunty to present matters of mportance for consderaton by the boa rd at that m eetng. A number of schools charged wth volatons of the elgblty rules wll have an open hearng before the board on that date, dsputes nvolvng the nterpretaton o contracts wll be fnally settled, and all prelmnary arrangements for the state tournament wll be approved. The annual meetng of the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton wll be held n the ballroom o f the Seelbach Hotel Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Aprl 13th. Snce the meetng comes ths year so soon a fter the frst of the month, schools should be plann ng now to present ther proposed changes n the constt uton and by-laws to the secretary. Under the consttuton o f the Assoc at on, all proposed changes must be submtted to the secretary on or before Aprl 1st. The secretary wll then submt these proposed changes to the member schools through hs regular Aprl letter. n order to facltate the work of preparng ths Jetter n the secretary's offce, proposals should be submtted well n advance o f Aprl 1st. Occasonally we have complants that too many boys are permtted to re turn to ther home schools wthout loss of elgblty after havng a ttended a school o utsde ther home dstrct. F or ma ny years t has been the polcy of the Board of Control to encourage a thletes to slay n the dstrct to whch they belong. 'vve beleve that under secton 2 of Rule V, the board must restore the elgblty of o ne w ho returns to hs home school whenever the board s convnced that the returnng athlete s not returnng prmarly for the purpose of partcpatng n athletcs. Even when we are con\'nced that a player went to a n outsde school n order to partcpate n athletcs and has remaned there long enough to become elgble we wll permt hm to return to hs home school wthout loss of elgblty on the theory that t s better for hm to represent hs home school than to represent a school n another dstrct. Schools holdng dstrct and regonal to urnaments m ust dstrb ute the recepts accordng to the plan outlned on page 27 of o ur Assocaton's booklet unless the schools agree by unanmous vote upon some other plan. \lte have recently had to decde n a n umber of cases whether a gven hgh school s a two, three or four year hgh school The classfcatons as gven by local school authortes and by the State Department of Educaton do not agree. n all cases of ths knd we have accepted the classfcaton of the State Department o Educaton. Letters w rtten bv the membe1 schools to the presden t's offce oftet contan some very pcturesque From the Secretary's Offce REPORTS NOW DUE 1. 1938 Football Partcpaton Lst. 2. School's Report on Football Offcals. f you have not a lready done so, please fle these reports wth the secretary at once. The followng schools have not fled elgblty lsts wth the secretary for last year n the sports ndcated. These reports should be sent n at once n order that the records may be complete. Bell County Boyd County Bradfordsvlle Creenup Greenvlle Crockett Flat Gap l;atlff Lebanon 1937 FOOT BAL L K M.. Lousa McKell Mddlesboro 1937-38 BASKE T BALL Lewsburg (Mason Co.) Pruden St. J erome Morganfeld Versalles Wtherspoon Wurtland S t. P atrck Salt Lck Sanders S UPPLEMENTARY LST REGSTERED BASKETBA LL OFFCALS John Booth, Carrollton. Harold U. Buch, 213 Greenwood Road, Mddlesboro. Paul Bullock, Pttsburg. John 'vv. Easley, Tolu. Dck Fawbush, Benham. Shclve Fuson, F ourm le. T homas Har p, Pnevlle. V. T. Hornback, Normal Drve, Bowlng Green. Lyle L. Judy, 1510 Beech S treet, Lousvlle.!.'rank ). Lawrence, College H eghts, Bowlng Green. Nck Lews, Jr., H yden. Edgar P eters, 803 Bath Avenue, Ashland. Omar D. Phelps, Euban k. Alvn Rce, 2515 Clnton, Ashland. Lloyd E. Roberts, 614 North Street, Rchmond. Leo P. Sack, 1609 Ruth Avenue, Cncnnat, Oho J ohn E. Schaar, 173 Kentucky Drve, Newport 1, an Sprnkle, Tell Cty, ndana. E. B. Stansbur y, Bowlng Green. Gene Sullvan, 228 Knox Street, Barboun lle. Dravo E. Tarter, Russell Sprngs. Hugh Wse, 604 Booth Avenue, Owensboro. The follo wng o ff cals may ltave completed ther applcatons by the tme the maga~ne s p ublshed, and should present ther regstraton cards as evdence of membershp: Chas. Wm. Cronn, 2 Gardner Place, Lnwood, Cncnnat, Oho. Haskell H. Vncent, Martn. exj>ressons. One man reports that he "bols wth rage.'' Another apologzes because one of hs basketvall players has a "temporary loss of temper," w hle another reports tha t forgery connected wth a player's age s ' as evdent as a carbuncle on a man's nose."
Page Two f EBRUARY, 1939 Vol. 1, No. 6. P ublshed monthly, except June, July, and August, by the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton. Edto - - --- - - - -- -- -- - RUSSELL E. BRDGES J2 ndana Avc.uuc:, Fort Thon'l:as, Kentucky BOARD OF CONTROL Presdent.....\ \'. 1 ', O'Donnell, Rchmond Vce-Pre&dent... Russell E. llrdges, Fort Thomas Secretary Treasurcr... Theo. :\. Sauford, Carrollto Drectors - John A. Dotson, Denh:11n; W. ll. Owen, H orse Cave: j. llfatt Sparkman, Dcutou. Subscrpton Rates... Sl.OO per Year COVER PAGE UNVERSTY OF KENTUCKY WLDCATS \Ve arc g lad to adc.l to our "Pcture Gallery of Good Teams" our own U nversty or Kentucky squad. Kentucky Basketball Teams have 111ade a remarkable record n the past nne years under the drecton o ther great coach, Adolph Rupp. Durng Coach Rupp's tenure at Kentucky hs teams ha\ e won undsputed champonshps o the Southeastern Conference three tmes and have had good clam to the ttle n four other years. Three All-Amercan and a host of allconference stars pay trbute to U. K. and Coach Rupp. - ---:---- NATONAL FEDERATON NTERSCHOLASTC FOOTBALL RULES A statement u Mr. Rumsey Taylor's artcle n the October ssue o The Athlete has led to much dscusson. Mr. Taylor wrote: "Tll: majorty of the coaches attendng our clncs do no t approve of the SCHOLASTC football rules." Quotng further from the same report by M r. Tavlor, "Coaches should adopt ONE SET OF RULES AND EV:::RY TEAM STCK TO T." n the last statement, ~fr. Taylor s qute rght; n the frst, t s to be hoped that hs observatons were ncorrect. The school men of Kentucky have very defntely adopted ONE SET 01- RULES for use n ther games. f they an:: not stckng to these rules t s not the frst nstance of rule breakng that has been observed n hgh school athletcs n Kentucky or elsewhere. The fact that rules arc not follo wed docs not necessarly 111ake the rules wrong. Rule XXV of the By-Laws of the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton reads: "All foot hall games played n Kentucky by member schools of the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton shall be played under the 1\atonal Federaton Football rules." Contrary to the opnon of some, ths rules was not made by the Board of Con trol The rules governng hgh school athletcs are admnstered by The Board of Control, but are made by the 64 representatves of the member schools. 1\ow the fact that approxmately 40 of our 48 states are usng the Federaton Rules s not absolute proof that Kentucky should usc them, but s farly concr ete evdence tlnllt a MAJORTY OF OUR COACHES and school men of the Unted States feel that the hgh schools should e111ploy n ther games rules made BY hg h school people FOR the the hgh schools. Kentucky co<1.ches have not been noted for takng radcal steps. sn't t lkely that they knew pretty well what they were dong when they wrote RULE XXV nto our By-Laws? Dscusson wth coaches and offcals of, arous parts of the state leads to the concluson that the dffcultes ar;; ng out of playng games wth Tennessee and Oho The KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATH1.ETE teams under dfferent rules arc more magnary than n;al. Observatons of dozens of games between Oho and Kentucky teams n the last two years worked by competent offcals have faled to reveal a sngle dffculty. Before any radcal steps are taken lc:adng possbly to the use o ntercollegate Rules would t not bt: '' t ll to make sure that our neghborng s tates are not just now gettng ready to adopt Fes! craton Rules r \V c have n progrcs:-. a consruct, e p rogram for Kentucky H g h School Athletcs. All o ver the state men are sayng that more progress has been made n the past two years than n the prevous ten. lf that s true, and t undoub'tedly s, t has been due to the fact that hgh school 111en have been gvn~ more attenton to ther own problems and have not hec:n leavng them to the college people. As for the rules, we must come to realze that the ""hole rules movement s a pan of our larger problem of gvng drcctou to the hg h school athletc program by m en who arc actually engaged n hgh school athletcs <lncl who arc organzed n state and natonal assocatons..\'lore wll be sad n future ssues of The Athlete regardng rules. Opnons of coaches and offcals wll be welcomed and wll be presented to our readers f sgned and offered for that purpose. undrecb of testmonals can be g ve n from coaches and o ffcals of other state payng trbute to the progress made u nder nterscholas tc r ules. Perhaps the followng pretty well,;ums up ther ~ tatements: am a belever n the nterscholastc rule~ for the followng reasons:. t has smplfed the rules hom offcals, coaches, and players' angles. All of the ~e groups are able to s tudy the rule book as t s now wrtten, a nd really understand the rules, the nteq>retatons and have reasons lor them. 2. t has resul ted n better offcatng partcularly because ~ h e ru les havt: been smpllt-d..'3. Snce the adopton of the nterscholastc Rules we have hat! fewer njures- 1 feel that ths s the result of legslaton on the part of the rules commttee to safeguard at all tmes the boys who are playng the game. -1. t has tended to make a more nterestng game, d ue to the fact that the game s now more open because the r ules l) rovdc for more and better ball handlng. Another artcle by Mr. A. L. Lasster. "nterscholastc Football Rules," prnted on page 5 of ths ssue pretty well summarzes the coaches' atttude on football rules. ----:---- STATE MAGAZNES T_he Gc~ rga Coach and Athlete s a n~'y magazne publshed or coaches, players, and off.c1als. t s devoted to the coachng of the varous sports and s publshed by the Georga Athletc Coaches Assocaton and the Georga Football Offcals Assocaton 751 Park DrYe, :\.E., Atlanta, Georga. ' The Kansas Hgh School Actvtes Journal s another new offcal state organ devoted to hgh school athletcs and actvtes. ts attractve cover. and nterestng content make t a real contrbuton to the servce that the Kansas Assocaton renders to ts member schools. We_ hear t~1at Pcnnsyh ana s publshng a monthly magazme wh1ch they call the Pa'thlcte. And. speakng of new magaznt>s. we are remnded of the mam nce comments and letters of congratulatons on ou.r own Kentucky Hgh School Athlete.
jor FEBRUARY, 1939 Page Three BAS(ETBALL ETHCS FOR COACHES Basketball Ethcs jor Coaches has been prnted n Rule Books, Magaznes and Bulletns over the country ths year, but t wll bear publcaton agan. Regardless of whether or not you have read ths Code oj Ethcs, read t agan. Prncpals, read t and pass t on to your coaches. Let them read t and then fle the magazne jor jutl~r e use and reference. Do your coaches and boys play by "the code"? n a sncere effort to promote better sportsmanshp on the part of coaches, players and spectators a t all basketball games, the Coachng Ethcs Commttee of the Natonal Assocaton of Basketball Coaches th1 ough John J. Gallagher of Nagara Unversty, Charman, offers the followng suggestons n whch t s hoped every basketball coach wll concur. 1. nstruct your players accordng to the letter and sprt of the Rules. 2. nsst that your players do not queston the judgment decsons of a referee. n dsputes coverng msnterpretaton of rules have your captan call tme out and dscuss n a gentlemanly manner wth the referee the stuaton n so far as the rules cover t. 3. T reat the vstng team coach wth the same f rendly atttude that you would hope for when your team played on the opponent's court. 4. Secure honest nad capable offcals, preferably members of the Natonal Assocaton of Approved Basket Ball Offcals. Do not attempt to ntmdate tbem or talk to them pror to the conte~t regardng the faults of your opponents. t s advsable to stay a way from the offcal~ before the game and between the halves. There s no one more vtally nterested n havng a well offcated game than the offcal hmself. A basket ball offcal s called upon to make many judgment decsons and occasonally he wll make mstakes. Usually, however, the average offc<!-! does not make the. number of mstakes that the average coach or player s gulty of durng the course of a game. 5. The Coachng Ethcs Commttee of the Natonal Assocaton of Basket Ball Coaches ntends makng a Natonal Drve to mprove Spectator sportsmanshp. From the reports of o ur predecessors on ths commttee we fnd that the atttude of the coach on the bench ether encourages good spectator and player sportsmanshp or throws fuel on the fre of poor sportsmanshp w hch The Natonal Basket Ball Coaches Assocaton s attemptng to elmnate. f the coach s n the habt of makng uncomplmentary gestures everytme the offcal calls a foul on one of hs players. then you can be assured that the partsans of hs team wll break loose n ther loud dsapproval of the decson. Ths condton sometmes leads to worse stuatons on the court as s pectators exercse a tremendous nfluence n determnng the sportsmanshp atttude or the lack of t among the contestants. 6. The coa ch should make efforts pror to the openng of the season to encourage good spectator sportsmanshp. Ths can be accomplshed f the coach would request The College Dean or the H g h School Prncpal for permsson to address one of the school assembles pror to the openng of the basketball schedule. Notces n the schoors weekly publcaton before the season opens s another means, especally n large unverstes where t s mpossble to contact drectly all the students. Smlar publcty n the local newspapers may help educate local fans who are not connected wth the nsttuton. The coach should stress the act that t s unethcal, unsportsmanlke, and ungentlemanly for a student or spectator to express dsapproval n a vocferous manner the decsons of the offcal. T he coach also should encourage students and spectators to regard the opposng team players as frendly rvals, w ho happen to be the guests of the nsttuton, and not as hated opponents. Makng dsconcertng noses when an opposng player s attemptng a free throw and boong an opponent are the prncpal faults n unsportsmanlke conduct. t s advsable for coaches to seek the cooperaton of other members of the faculty n helpng promote good sportsmanshp among the student body. A bref comment n a class or group by a teacher or professor, not drectly connected wth the Athletc Assocaton, may help students contnue good sportsmanshp wthn ther own school. Conduct at basketball games, as well as a t other athletc actvtes, actually s the school's course n sportsmanshp. 7. nstll n your players that n a compet1t1ve sport lke basketball t s necessary for a boy or young man to frequently moblze durng t he course of a game all the skll, ntellgence and courage that he possesses ; to do ths when opposed by competent opponents endowed wth smlar ablty and Pllfl>O e ; to do ths wth a sprt of g enune sportsmanshp that wll not permt hm to stoop to that whch s base and mean n order to secure some advantage over hs opponents. 8. Qute a few natural rval basketball games among varous schools a nd unversty teams are not scheduled because the athletc authortes feel that the. conduct of partsan spectators would consttute such a nusance, and possbly such a dsturbance, that s uch g a1nes are not arranged. 9. E mphasze to your players that when any of them descend to unsportsmanlke conduct or acton durng the course of a basketball game that they njure hundreds of other persons other than themselves. Each player s a representatve of hs nsttuton. f he volates the prncpals of good sportsmanshp he brngs dsgrace upon the nsttuton and the entre student body. 10. Basketball s a sport that was orgnated n an educatonal nsttuton. Ever snce t.s humble begnnng the game has been admnstered pl ncpa lly by basketball authortes assocated wth educatonal nsttutons. The popularty of th t~ game has become so wdespread that t now embraces numerous types of leagues. The leaders of ths latter group look to the school and college dvson fo r the sportsmanshp tradtons of the game. L et us resolve that w e shall set a good example by regardng t as a duty to teach and encourage good sportsmanshp among our players an<l the other members of the student bodv, but what s equally a1h perhaps more mportant let us regard t as an oblgaton to practce the deal prncples of good sportsmanshp.
Pace Four FOOTBALL NJURES The KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE ATHLETC NSURANCE Recent reports ndcate that 14 states have now set up a plan hy whch a program of Athletc fu surancc s sponsored by the State A thletc Assocaton. To ths lst of 14 may be added the state5 of owa and Nebra5ka whch states a rc preparng l t > put nto effect such plans n the fall of 1939. Kentucky voted several years ago to promote such a program of protecton _but no machnery was en:r set up whereby the plan mght operate. The plan no'v n operaton n Northern Kentucky has been so successful and the nqures from over the entre state have been so numerous as to ndcate that ths,;sleepng plan" mght be revved and put nto operaton on a state-wde has s. There s now avala ble ample nformaton and statstcs upon whch to base such programs wth assurance of s uccess. A report of one of the s ubcommttees of the Natonal Federaton Meetng (mentoned elsewhere n ths ssue) was devoted to Football njures. Ths report gven by W. A. Wte and F. R. Wegner nclude statstcs whch had been gathered from the athletc nsurance departments of \Vsconsn and New York. Here are some of the statstcs presented by M r. P. F. Neverman for the state of \Vsconsn. Total number of boys covered... 14,568 1938 FOOTBALL NJURES B ro ken Leg- Above knee... 2 Below knee... 35 Both bones below... 4 Rroken Arm- Above elbow... 6 Below elbow... 37 Both bones below... 14 Broken collar bone... 55 Broken shoulder...- 17 Broken rbs... 3-1 Broken nose... 52 B rokcn teeth... 176 1:3roken bone n hand... 37 Broken bone n foot... 3 Broken jaw... 3 Dslocated knee... 12 Dslocated s houlder... R Dslocated elbow... 6 Dslocated wrst... B ro ken vertebrae... 7 Concusson...... 9 Mscellaneous... 30 X-Rays... 46 Total 11-man football njures... 60-1 41.5 per 1000 Total 6-man nj ures... 34 1R per 1000 T otal 6-man coverage... 1878 Total 8-man njures... 1< 28 per 1000 T otal 8-man coverage... 568 Type of Play Kck-off... 23 Forward pass... 31 Lateral pass - 6 Punt... 32 End R un... 116 Feld Goal... 1 Off tackle... 148 Tnsde tackle... s:; Unclassfed... 17 Boy Actvty Blockng.... Blocked.... Tac klng.... Tackled.... Forward Passng.... Recevng Forward Pass.... Lateral Passng.... Recevng Lateral Pass.... Kckng.... Recevng Kck.... Returnng Kck.... U nclassfed..... 90 52 192 71 10 9 0 2 3 0 7 16 Poston on the Feld 29 ~n~ur~ es occutted n the end zone. 134 lllju'es occurred between the 20-yanl lne and the goa l lne. 254 nju es occurred betwee n the 20-yard lnes. Tme of njury The greatest n umber of njures occurred n the thrd quarter and the next g reatest number occurred n the second quarter. The number of njures occurrng n games are about equal to the number occurrng n practce. Durng a game... 300 Durng practce... 304 T hese fgures showng 41.5 njures per 1000 boys partcpatng on nsured-teams arc ndcatve of the trend n \Vsconsn and n other states that are DONG SOMETHNG ABOUT njures sustaned by the boys who partcpate for the hgh schools. 'Where school men arc makng a study of condtons and makng coaches and players njury-conscous there has been a decrease n the number of njures a nd a fewer number of serous njur e~. Ths has been due. no doubt, to more careful and longer perods of prelmnary tranng and condtonng. to better equt)ment. and to more careful sut>ervson. From the fgu res g Yen n ths report. the hgh school coaches n \.Ysconsn may say to the boys who come out fo r football. "lf we have an average team ant an a verage season, you should he able to play through all of our practce sessons and our entre schedule wth no 1110 re than 2 o f each 50 of vou gt~ ttng hurt." - ----: ---- COACHES: Consder the Hammer! 1. t keeps ts hea d. 2. t doesn't fly off the handle. 3. t keeps poundng away. -1. t f nds the pont, then drves t home. 5. t looks at the other sde, too ; a nd thus often clnches the matter. 6. t makes mstakes but when t does t starts all over agan. 7. t s the only knocker n the world that does any good. 8. f you are nclned to lose your head and fly off the ha ndle, just pause a mnute and consder the hammer. -Delaware News Letter. ----:---- vvho msses or who wns the prze Go lose or conquer as you can : But f you fall, or f you rse. Be each, pt ay God. a ~re nt l cman. - Thackery.
or FEBRUARY, 1939 Page Fve NTERSCHOLASTC FOOTBALL RULES By A. L. LASSTER, Presdent Kentucky H. S. C()(lches Assn. The hgh school coaches and admnstrators were amo ng the frst to recognze the need of makng certan changes n the rules of football to mprove the game and at the same tme nsure greater safety to those boys playng the game. Pror to the year 1932 the hgh school coaches and admnstrators had no voce n the changng of the ootball rules. t was apparent to those n charge of hgh school athletcs, f they expected to have a gam~~ sutable for boys from the age of 14 to 19 years, they would have to work out a set of r ules o ther own that would mprove the game and at the same tme place a greater stress on safety. The hgh school coaches and admnstrators are not unduly ted by tradton, so n the year 1932 the NTERSCHOLASTC RULES were frst publshed and used uy three states-llnos, owa and \Vsconsn. Snce 1932, a perod of sx years, the nterscholastc Rules have been adopted by twenty-sx states Alauama, Colorado, Delaware, Florda, daho, llnos, owa, Kansas, Kentucky,.\1ane, Mch~an, Mnnesota, Mssour, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexco, New York, 1\onh Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvana, Tennessee, Utah, \Vashngton, \;vsconsu and \1'\yomng-and Cleveland, Oho. By the fall o l\13\1 there wll be at least thrty states to haye offcally adopted the nterscholastc Rules. Practcally all o the states that have hgh school organzaton machnery for promotng cooperatve acton ha\ e adopted the nterscholastc Rules, or wll soon do so. There are over 10,000 hgh schools (or some 300,000 boys) play11g under the nterscholastc Rules. \ Vhen the h!{h school coaches arc responsble for so many b oy~ playng a game, why shouldn't they have a voce u the rules of th.: game? ln the stale of Kentucky there an: 11 5 hgh schools (or 4500 boys) playng football. Should we as coaches be nterested n the rules and condtons whch are best suted fo r all the boys, or the possble 10% that may play college football? After all, Lhe fu ndamentals of the game s uch as blockng and tacklng arc the same under all rules. S hould we abolsh the nterscholastc Rules because some of the college coaches are so ted up \\ th tradton that they are not wllng to accept the chauges the nterscholastc Rules Commttee has adopted and are provng to be very successful r Should we do away wth the nterscholastc Rules and adopt the Collegate Rules b.:cause 2% of the offcals have worked n some of the college games of our state, and arc too lazy or uound by tradton to become famlar wth the few dl1ercnces? Are we playng football n Kentucky for the beneft of the offcals, n order some day a half dozen n ths state may be placed on the Southern Conference Offcal Lst, or are we to have a game for the boys of Kentucky, a game they lke to play and whch offers greater safety whle playng? How s the Football Rules Commttee made up > Each state that uses the rules apponts a member. The appontment s by a ny method desred by the ~ tate hgh school athletc assocaton. All members are actvely engaged n some type of hgh school athletc work. Results brought about b y the lnterscholutc Football Rules. The publcaton of the football rules has also led to other sgnfcant developments. \,Ye now have hgh school representaton on the Basketball and T ra ck Rules Commttee. Safety M easure. The nterscholastc rules commttee and nterscholastc organzaton whch they 1 eprescnl have contnued to stress safety measures n football. A safety commttee recently lsted 32 111 easurcs that have been adopted n the nterest of safety durng the last several years and whch are ncorporated n the nterscholastc rules. The rules are the result of the organzed effort of thousands of progressve hgh school coaches and admnstrators who have been eager to cooperate n drect expermentaton wth any provson whch has offered possbltes n provng the game of football, or of better adaptng t to the capabltes of the hgh school plays, or of makng t safer, or of elmnatng unnecessary complextes n the code. t s the opnon o f coaches all over ths country that wthn three years the 48 states wll be playng under the nterscholastc Rules. When that tme comes the colleges of ths country wll pull away from ther tradton and accept a code of rules that are adapted to the boys who play the game. After all, college players are boys too, only a lttle older. ----:---- A FREND A frend s one who's lved a whle And learned a world of stuff: Who smles a knd of patent smle Though thngs he smooth or rough. A frend s one who's tred you out; Who's heard your every plan; Knows all your weakness and your doubt, And S<tys, " lke t hat man." A frend s one who stands a lot; Yet tells you you're a snner; And after ~hat, as lke as not, nvtes you out to dnner. A frend s one who knows your faults, Yet doesn't hde hs own; Who'd rather walk wth one who halts, Than plod along alone. -Alfred Arnold. From October Mnnesota Bulletn. ----:---- GOD GVE US MEN God gve us m en. The tme demands Strong mnds, g reat hearts, true fath. wllng hands:.men whom the lust of offce docs not kll; :Men whom the spols of offce cannot buy; Men who possess opnons and a wll; Men who have honor; men who wll not le;.men who can stand before a demagogue And damn hs treacherous flatteres wthout wnkng: Tall men sun-crowne<l, who lve above the fog l n publc duty and n prvate thnkng! - ]. G. Holland.
Page S:J: The KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE Summary of Actvtes of Natonal Federaton nterscholastc Football Rules Comn1ttee on January 6-7, 1939 Ths Summary oj t.lu; Actvt,.s nj the Natonal Fedt:.raton lnters(:holastc Football Rules Con>mttce whch met n Chcago on lanuury 6 and 7, 1939, s released tu the readers oj the Kent.ucky Hgh School Athlete by ]. {tc MoUNTJOY and A. L LASST-:R, K c ~~tacky s represental.ves at the meetng. Mr. Lassla s Prcsdettt oj the Ker~t.u.cky Cuaches A.~socuuon. <tml 1Hr. Mountjoy the Representatve of the Kentuchy Jlgh School Athletc Assocaton on the Natorud Rules Commttee. There was a full attendance wth the excepton of the representatve from Delaware. T hose present were; George Brown, Des Mones, owa; ] ohn J. Butler, Lewston, Mane; ]. P. Creel, Sylacauga, Ala.; Jesse D ay, Davenport, a.; Geo. E. Denman, Burley, daho; H. R. Deterch,.Maryvlle, Mo.; W. A F sher, Lyn.den, \Vashngton; C. E. Forsythe, Lansng, Mch.; Hugh F.-ancs, Kansas Cty, Mssour; H. A. Harmony, Cleveland, Oho; George Haun, Bemdj, Mnnesota ; Salen Herke, Peora, llnos; S. D. ] ackson, Johnson Cty, Tennessee; john J ohnson, Des Mones, owa; A. L. Lasster, Rchmond, Kentucky; ] ohn Mach, Wllston, North Dakota; J. H.cc Mountjoy, Dan vlle, Kentucky ; F. P. Magure, Harrsburg, Pennsylvana; D. R. Mtchell, Leh, Utah; -L V. Po1 ter, Chcago, llnos; Hugh L. H.ay, Chcago, llnos; G. 0. Ream, Albuquerque, New Mexco ; LaMar Sarra, Tampa. Florda; ]. F. T. Saur, Farfeld, owa ; vvalter Shupp, Cleveland, Oho; 0. E. Smth, Anoka, Mnnesota; E. A. Thomas, Topeka, Kansas; E. M. Thompson, Rock Sprngs, Wyomng; R. 'vv. Truscott, Loveland, Colorado; Troy \\Talker, Portland, Oregon ; R. M. \Valseth, P erre, South Dakota; 0. L. 'vvebb, Lncoln, Nebraska; F. R Wegner, Roslyn H eghts, New York; W. A W tte, Appleton, Wsconsn; Roy Wood, Butte, Montana; E. R. Stevens, ndependence, Kansas ; C. W. Whtten, Chcago, llnos. The 1 eports of the varous sub-commttees resulted n defnte acton relatve to the followng matters ; A sub-commttee made up of.messrs. vvood, Sara, \Valseth and Ray drew up recommendatons for the modfcatons whch arc necessary for sx-man football. These were acted uvon by the entre commttee and wll be ncluded n the back of the nterscholastc rules book. The:: us ual nterscholastc rules for the standard game wll be offcal except where modfcatons are lsted n the back of the book. A statement desgned to assst offcals n the matter o f pass nterference was authorzed and wll be ncluded n a specal bulletn. A statstcal blank was authorzed for the collecton of data on varous phases of the game. Ths blank wll be prnt~:tl and placed n use so that extensve and accurate statstcs wll be avalable for the meetng next year. A thorough study of njury statstcs were suppled by VVsconsn and New York. These were evaluated and were consdered n connecton wth the varous rules proposals. RULE MODFCATONS The major changes from the present rules follow; NOTE: t should be understood that ths s not meant to be a complete summary of the actvty of the commttee. The detaled report wll be made up at a later date and suppled each member of the commttee. The presell't draft s made wthout any effort to properly word the provson. Ths materal s merely for the convenence of members of the commttee, who may choose to publcze the commttee acton. l. lf a foul occurs n ~ he contnung acton f ollowng dead ball (anywhere) enforce as for a foul hetween downs. Comment ; The questonnare vote on ths proposal was overwhelmngly n favor. lt s adopted prmarly because of elmnatng many complcated stuatons when the contnung acton s consdered a part o f the prevous down. The new rule wll make t necessary for the offcal to determne whether a foul occurs before the ball s dead or after t s dead. \Vth ths method of enforcement many complcated sectons of the rule and play stua-tons books wll be entrely elm nated and t wll be much ease r for the offcals to properly nterpret the rule. 2. The one remanng case of "free ball" wll be elmnated and the penalty for any fou l whch occurs durng the one s-tuaton whch was lsted as a free ball n the 1938 nterscholastc r ules wll be enforced from the spot of the backward pass or fumble (smlar to present enforcement for a foul durng a return kck). Comment: The vote on the questonnare was overwhelmngly n favor o f 'ths change. The commttee feels tha t consderable smplfcaton n the r ules wll result wthout any handcap to any player or team. The occurrence happens so seldom that n actual practce any elleged nequty wll be neglgble. 3. A player wll be allowed to re-enter once dur ng any quarter. Con1ment: T he questonnare vote was overwhelmngly n favor of ths and the njury statstcs show that the rule whch permtted re-entry n the fourth quarter last year probably reduced the number of njures whch occurred durng the fourth quarter. t s hoped that further reducton wll result from the change. Coaches wll be able to better supervse the physcal condton of ther players at any tme n the game and to avod undue fatgue whch so often results n njury. A note wll be ncluded n ths secton strongly recommendng.that coaches be responsble for enforcement of ths rule so that offcals wll be releved of the bookkeepng whch would otherwse be nvolved. 4. A slght change wll be made n the penalty for unsportsmanlke conduct of players. The present nterscholastc penalty prescrbes ffteen yards from the succeedng spot for all such cases. The new penalty wll prescrbe ffteen yards from the prevous spot f the foul occurs whle the ball s n play and ffteen yards from the succeedng spot f the o1! occurs whle the ball s dead. Ths penaltv s now consstent wth the present penalty for fouls by nonplayers. _ Comment; Ths change was made largely n the 1nteres1s of smplfcaton and wll nclude an nvald sgnal for fa1 catch. Heretofore the penalty for the nvald sgnal made an excepton to a general r ule. t s now enforced from the prevous spot the same as for most other fouls commtted durng a loose ball.
for FEBRUARY, 1939 Page Seven 5. Durng a forward pass all nelgble players wll be requred to reman on or behnd the lne of scrmmage untl after the pass has lcpt the passer's hands. Volaton o ths provson wll be consdered nterference wth the usual pcnal-1y. Comment : The commttee felt that ths would consderably smplfy the problems w hch arse rela tvc to whch players arc ndgbl<. t sho uld abo enable offcals to center ther attenton on alleged ntederence n the mnu:date vcnty of the pass recever. 7. The present rule relatve to a pass touchng an nelgble player on or behnd the lne of scrmmage s to be retaned. there should be a major ncompleton n the scrmmage zone. the penalty s to be the same as or nterference and there w1. be no opton for the offended team f the major n completon s between the ten ya1 d lne and the goal lne. n ths stuaton, the penalty wll be the samt as for anywhere else on the fe ld,.e., the usual nterference penalty. Comment : Ths change ~ an extenson of acton whch was started last year when the touchng o an nelgble player on or behnd the lne was ruled the same as f the ball had touched an elgble player of A. 8. The nterpretaton relatve to the permssble movement of lnesmen on a play when a pass s completed n the vcnty of the lne of scrmmage wll be made slghtly more lbe ral. Any ordnary ntal lne cha 1 gc s not to be co nsdered part of <. screen. Comment: There has been consderable dfference n nterpretaton relatve to nterference n the vcnty of the lne. The proposed nterpretaton s n harmony wth the practce whch has been n vogue n terrtores whch have allowed the offense slghtly more lattude n ths respect. Jt s a s lght compensaton for the advantage gven the defense n certan other pass changes. \!. A number of nterpretatons whch were adopted by tho:: Edtoral Conuuttee durng the season were dscussed and voted upon. A few of these are lsted here for convenence. The choce of color for the ball for nght games wll be made a responsblty of the offcals rather than a matter to be decded purely by mutual consen! of the teams. Such acts as kckng the ball at certan tmes when a kck s not de fntely permtted wll be penalzed. Ths apples to s uch acts as kckng a ball from the hands of an opponent or kckng the ball durng a backward pass or a fumble. T he rules reatve to the penaltes for substtutons at certan unauthorzed tmes wll be smplfed. Several refnements n the present rules wll be made n the nterests of smplcaton or clarty. These wll be ncluded n the complete summary of the commttee actons. \.Vhen a backward pass or fumble s touched smultaneously by players of both teams and goes out. of bounds, the ball s to be awarded to t he team whch last had possesson. Ths s consstent wth the procedure n several analogous stuatons. :,_...-:.-~.._.~,--,--.-... ~--~,.._c,.-. -c-.-c- - - ---~~~- -..,--- : lvake PLANS TO ATTEND J 1 The Kentucky ntercollegate Athletc Conference 1 ' Basketball Tournament 1 (Kentuc k y ' s C ollegate BkbllCl as et a assc ) EASTERN KENTUCKY STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE RCHMOND, KENTUCKY İ FEBRUARY 23-24 - 25, 1939 SEASON TCKETS $1.65 GENERAL ADMSSON... Nghts and Saturday Afternoon, 75c Thursday and Fmday Afternoons, 40c THOS. E. ~-cdokough, Tournament Manager 1 : -- -..-- - - - - - - - - - --.n--.--- )._.,,.._., o_c -c -c -c -c-~.._..,._,.j.-.c,_.. l_c>.-...-.. : : 11. 1
Page Eght The KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE EXTElVPORANEOUS BAS(ETBALL Ths artcle named by th<! edu1r 'Extemporaneous Basketbu/1; was wrtten jur The Athl.:te by WM. ]... BL U~:.. FosTEr<, athletc drt ctor al d coach uj Newport Jlgh ::>chool. Foster, 11 graduate oj Southu;cstern 'l'<:o:as and Columba u nversy s <'Ottstlt rcd one of Kentucky's lc:adng h.gh school coaches, wth a record that ent.tlt ~ hm to SJn ak wth authorty on basl.:dt ball. Hs team s M Newportt have won 193 gcunes and lost.ja snce 1931. Jm;Lwled n ths Lst of vctores s numbered our R e;;onul Charnponsltps and Fve Dstrct Champonshps, not to mento" several State Toumamenl ;;ames. Fans who have not seen the Newport H;;h S clwol Teams n acton should not be deceved by the ttle, Extemporaneous Basketball, and thus get the dea that tl~s " tc a.m.s play " by ear" and are not drllell n fundament,als. Rather the opposte s tru.e-they arc -~0 well /.raned that they are tlble to adjust ther game on ;hort notce to the style oj game set up by ther mmedate opponents. Some o my rends n the coachng professon have often accused me of havng no set sy~tem of play n basketball, but o play ng t he o pponents. Perhaps ths s true. 1 am sure some ol my teams when losng, and at tmes when they were wnnng, have gven me the mpresson they knew very lttle a bout any system. Serously, though, have felt for some tme t ha t a team to be con:;s tcntly successful, must b e well vt:rsed n a varety o f attackng maneuvers and be aule to play an altered defense on short notce. n other words, gve the oppone nt:; the thng they dslke most, both on offense and defense. Adant the game to ther weaknesses, gve t hem a specal prescrpton. Of course, n order to do ths t he team to be played must b e scouted; n t he absence of the nformaton the coach s oblged to observe quckly durng t he early moments o the game and make changes and suggestons to hs team through substtutons. Also, t he team captan can be placed upon hs own, n ths regard. Especally s th:; true, whe1 e ths ~ys tem of play has b een used for some tme a t a school. t s my contenton that f a team concentrates on an orthodox offense and defense, they a re makng t possble for the coach of a weaker tean1, t hat make;; specal l)reparaton, to defeat t hem. For nstance, f a team consstently uses a fast break t wll be found that ther outlet pass v er y often goes to the sam ~: man n approxmately the same area. A smart team or o ne especa lly d rlled, wll antcpate ths and ntercept a percentage of them for baskets. ~lo s t fast break:; are three lane offensves, or a varaton, whle a team usng a slow break wth two men n, and three out, and two m en rlong the reboundng, has three men n excelle nt poston to pck up the fast break. The fast break. to be effectve, must develop stuatons where there a rc more offensve men down than defensve. that s, a stuaton wh ere there a r c two on one, three on two, and etc. l am co nvnced the two can ue very easly blended together. The play dagrams on opposte page llustrah~ my pont. t s possble for a team to number smlar plays the same and run t hem from t he alte1 cd set-ups. f a team has a fl\ eman offensh e and concentrates on follow ups, a 'ast break w th the outlet pa~s gong at least to the mddle of the floor should be troublesome. Suppose the oppo ne nts are large, and a bt slow, and not the best of bal handlers. By coverng such a team all over the floor, putng fve men aganst four, on pa:;ses u bounds, a fter you have scored, and etc., t her h eght s not so useful, and ther :;lowness and lack of polshed footwork, may become a serous lablty. '1 he team you arc playng n;av be very good wth set floor plays (the destnaton of whch s a short under the basket shot), by coverng such a team all over the floor ther a ttack becomes dsconcerted and wld passes often result. P er haps ther g uards arc a bt cumbersome n brng ng the ball up the floor. Coverng s uch players n lte back court or pckng them up two steps bcfor~: they g et to the center lne should be advantageous. "Wher e a team has a splcncld pvot man, then perhaps a team should usc tltc relaxed man -for-man or cotnbnaton man-for-man and zone defense, wth the weak sde guard and forward helpng to sandwch the pvot man. Stll another possblty would be to play a tall man o r a small ball hawk u th e free throw area, zone :ltylc, wth the othet four men playug man-form an. r n ths defcuse the weak scorng guard can be allowed freedom untl he attempts to come n for a short shot. Some coaches frown upon long shots, nsstng on th e ball beng worked n close. Ths s valuable normaton for the defense, and should cause the coach playng such a team to a lter hs defense accordngly. can recall ma ny games that my teams have won t hroug h alteratons n the attack and defense. J7our years ago we were tralng one o{ our rvals, 16 to G at the half, a nd had been completely outplayed n all departments. Between halves, our lneup was alter<:d for speed. \Ve shfted from a conservatve man-1 o-man to coverng all over the floor a nd won 30 to 28 n an overtme. 1 a lso remetn ber wnnng a regonal champonshp by smply shftng a guard to forward and a forward to guard between halves. The half score was 19 to 16 aganst us and we had looked bad all the second quarter. \Vc w ere ahead 26 to 19 at t he end of the thrd quarter and won from a strong team, 36 to 24. Now ~ s not my dea that a coach should expect hs team to play several,-aratons of defense and offense o n short n otce. Tt would be s ucde aganst some teams to attempt to cover them a ll o ver the floor, wthout long preparato n. No hg h school player should be expected to perform ably n an altered offense or defense wthout 1 horough schoolng from the coach.
for FEBRUARY, 1939 Page Nne!' #2 from A Set-up 3 passes t o 1, 1 t a kes s hor t d r bble and passes t o 4 wh o ha s used 5 as a sor een. A g r eat play1 #2 from B Set-up 3 pass e s t o 1, 1 t o 4 who has used 5 as a screen. ) /, 3 3 #1 from A Set- up X3 pass e s to 1, 1 passes t o 2 vrho r ebys on to 3, #1 f r om B Set - up X3 passes to 1, 1 t o 5, 5 baok to 3 who has used 1 as a scr een. NEWS FROJV THE CONFERENCES All over Kentucky there s now much speculaton about what teams are lkely to go to the state tournament. There s much dfference o opnon as to what are the best teams, and how the really good teams compare wth the state tourn<>y entrants of 1938. T o refresh the memores of our readers we present the Regonal "Wnners of last year pared just the way they met n the state tournament : Harlan Lewsburg St. Xaver Cent ral Cty Corydon Hghland Mavsvlle Russell Bellevue Burgn Sharpe Carrollton Hazard Frenchburg Horse Cave Madsonvlle Of course, you remember that Sharpe eventually won the champonshp, wth Maysvlle n the runnerup poston. St. Xaver, beaten by Sharpe n the sem-fnals went on to greater honors by wnnng the Natonal Catholc H g h School Champonshp. Most of the teams above named are outstandng n ther respectve regons agan ths year. Present standng a nd records ndcate. however, that thev w ll all have btter opposton n ther d strct and
- Page Te11 regonal tournaments and that not a sngle. ont of tht> 1!138 represcntatn:s wll be able to r<:turn to Lexn!{ ton wthout showng real class. Regon 1. The supremacy of S~tarpe wll be ch!lll.:nged hy Hckman, Heath and Ktrksey, o our m formanb tdl u~. And then Harlow too, mu$t he fgured n any fnal calculatons as they recemly trpped the hgh flyng He~th aggregatot~.?urely t he trst and largest r cg1on m the state wtll h, e up to lheu reputaton of sendng up a r eal contender for top honors. Regon Z. :Madsonvlle hy ther record of vctores and a wnner over prevously unbeaten Horse Cave should be favortes to represent the second regou. R egon 3. ::\ o offcal reports have come to tlw Athlete rom ths secton but Coach Dorsey s to brug hs Corydon boys through he wll evdently ha, c to beat such teams as ~forganfcl d. Henderson, and Davess Coun ty, not to menton Owensborc. P erhaps Coach Horner may f urnsh the upset n No. 3. Regon 4. Nothng s hort of an Act of P rovdence or a Kepuhlcan Lands lde can usually keep George Taylor's Ccmral Cty team out o f the state tournament, and nothng short of a mracle can keep hn1 from gettng the hardest J)Ossble draw. Sooner or la ter Coach Taylor s bound to get a break. Regon 5. Teams of Regon 5 ry to emulate the ~:xample of \Vcs tcrn Teachers College_. and that makes tht: competton keen. Lewsburg. smartng under what Coach Mtchell beleves to be an undcsehed clccat at th hands of H arlan last year wll fght back strong and should be one of the fa, ortes n a very tough regon. The wnner must get past College H gh. Frankln, Scottsvlle, Tompknsvlle, and Gamalel. Regon 6. n ths regon, o course, the queston alwavs arses, "who can beat Horse Cave?" T he prest'nt record of \V. B. Owen's team defes a n answer to t he queston. Perhaps H odgenvlle or Bardstown may supply the answer. R egon 7. No team other than one of the Lousv lle schools,.mal<;, Manual or St. Xaver, has ever wou u ths regon. T hs fact s not very encouragug to the other 21 teams, and t has led to the cons<!eraton of the possblty of placng these three schools n on e separate regon. At the pn;sent tme t he record of.ylalc Hgh s rather mposng, but any t eam or g roup of teams that must contend wth Lawrenceburg and Kavanaug h n the same regon must be lucky or rll u ~ t have rea l class to wn. Shelbyvlle, too. 111ust b.: regarded as a dark horse, gven a favorable draw. Regon 8. S tate secretary, T ed Sanford, hopes to g et hs Carrollto11 team back to Lexngton wth hm, but doubb the possblty. Emnence, F rankfort and Dry Rdge expect to make a warm contest n ths regon whle )!tlton. a non-conferenct team, has de Yeloped some wnnng habts that may not be broken before they n ach the State 111cet. 15 straght vctores and 58 vctores u the last 61 ganh s, wth a game a\ t:rage of 42 ponts, certanly ndcates a team of Champoushp calbre. That's the record o Coach Wlknson's Mlton Bg 5.-] ust another o Coach Dddle's boys who made good! Regon 9. B ellevue, wnner of the Northern Kentucky honors n '38 lost the entre team bv g raduaton, so have not fared well durng the current season. T tams n ths r<!gon wth outstandng records to date are: lolmes, Newport, '#alton. Lloyd 1fcmoral. Campbell County at A lexandra. and Dayton. j \ny one of these teams s capable of wnnng n a regon that s a lways made up o f f111c teams. The KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE Regon 10. A~ F ebruary l;;t heralds the approach o touruamtut tme,.\-1ays\'lle fmds ther supremacy challenged serously by Brooksvlle. Morgan, and Par>. ~fay ~ \ lle at present leads t he Central Kent ucky Conen ncc wth 3 wn;; and no losses, but Par ~ boa~b a ntorc mpre;;s, e record wth 8 wns and only 1lt:tal. ~ladson Hgh put ths one on and made t,tck 1:-) to 9. The team that represents Rt>gon 10 wll have tr<!mendous support for the state champonshp. Regon 11. J Burgn hopes to repeat ther 1933 pcrfonuancc th.;y must make an about face h urredll:. Harro~bbu, g-, r lt:nry Clay. and :Madson Hgh are names t ha t ~ g- n fy basketball f11tesse t.o Central Kentucky ans, a nd one of the three would gve a good acco unt o t her ~ tewanl shp n the bg classc. Prcsdelll O'Donnell would be vc y proud of the M adson g h Purples f they were able to accompany h m to tlte Tnurnam<!nt as reprcsent atvcs of Regon 11. O Jlcals who have worked n Central Kentucky, however, brng us the nformaton tha t Oxord Hgh School ol'llds wll swarlll over any team n the state. Only one loss n n ea rly two seasons o f plav s a strong arg ument n ther favor. - Regon 12. H azel Gree n, Somerset, Hghland. anu Dan\'llc are the headlne wnners n regon 12. All\ o nc of these teams should be capable of wnnng. blt the superor record of the H ghland F lyers should make them fa, ortcs. The gymless wonders, as the lghland~:rs arc called, have just completed a r un of?: consecutve vctores whch may ndcate one of those \\'Onder teams for whch Kentucky Hgh Schools arc famous. Regon 13. Apparently Harlan has another nne team whose progress may be barred by such mountan sharpshooters as Benham, 1ddlesboro, or Corbn. Black Star, too, must be consdered. Tt s reported that Coach jm Goforth of U. K. fame has a team of " twnklng stars" that may shne n mo1 e than one tournament ths tme. Regon 14. Ha:.:ard gets the nod of the sports wr t ~ r s n ot only for frst place n t her own regon but lk ~:w se for the state hanner. 1\o doubt much o f ths s ba~ ed on the respect for the shrewdness o Coach Pat l'<tync who has been brngng fn e teams o ut of Hazard snce "wav back when." Snce Josn14 Callaha n and Deatherage Hazanl's fans have been very 111uch concerned about such worthy r vals as Hndman, \Vhtcshurg, Carr Creek, and Breathtt County. Some good frendly feuds should develop fro111 ths sort of competton. Regon 15. Fr.:nchburg s r eported to have ano ther fne team, no w makng def nre plans to better ther 1938 performance n Lexngton. P kevlle has desgns on the Frenchburg crown and a rc makng a nce record to support t her clam to state r ecognton. Regon 16. n a quest for another wnner the R ussell aggregaton of Coach Pa pperson ha, e been meetng ~ t ff opposton from O lve Hll and Lousa. Followers o the 16th regon fortunes wll always wager, howe, er, that Ashland and.:vf t. Sterlng must be reckoned wth n the settlng of any champonshp clams. H ere you have. basketball fa ns, some of the teams that have been makng basketball hstory n ther own sectons of t he state. 1v1any good teams, however, never make the champonshp g r ade. Root for your favortes. BUT, DON'T BET ON BASKET BALL GAMES!
for FEBRUARY, 1939 Page Eleven CLEAl~ BAS<ETBALL "Clean Basketball" s a preprnt jrom the Febmary ssue of the lllno$ Athlete ttsed by specal permsson. t s passt1d along wth a hearty edtoral "Amen." For a n umber of years the men who have h.:en n charge of hgh school basketball have waged a baule for a game n whch there s a mnmum of contact and where cle, er footwork, speedy pvots and passes and fast thnkng rather than weght and pugnacty are the. determnng factors. Attempts to ntmdate or bat opponents, and profane language have been almost elmnated. Unsportsmanlke ac'ts such as delberately pushng an opponent shooter n the back result n mmedate dsqualfcaton, a nd no 'questons asked. Sulky actons of players to engender hate n spectators are prevented by strct admnstraton of the rules by progressve coaches and well traned offcals. These results have not been brought about over nghl. t took several years to convnce old school coaches, offcals and spol-ts wrters that a clean game can stll be popular among both players and fans and t rcqurecl patence, ndustry and organzaton to educate varous conservatve sectons of the state a way from the tendency to ape the practces of Unversty pressure groups and ndependent promoters. Tme has shown the wsdom of makng the hgh school game f1t the needs of the hgh school program and adapted to the capabltes of hgh school players. Anyone who has watched games n sectonal or state fnal tournaments can vouch for the fact that the non-contact type of game s as thrllng as any to be found anywhere. t has player appeal and crowd appeal and for the most part, good wll s engendered. T hs s not a n ndctment of the basketball played n other g roups. f some of the Unversty conferences or ndependent groups des re a rough type o f game, that s ther prerogatve and t wll appeal to a certau class of team followers. f they desre the offcal to look out of the wndow when a defensve player delberately shoves an opponent n the back or pushes hm off balance when he s holdng the ball, the fee whch s pad s large enough to attract offcals who wll permt that type o game. No one can be surprsed when the accounts of the games contan statements about players beng n a "fghtng mood," about the game beng a "cross be tween hockey and a lght" or about boys who ''were groggy from vgorous sockng and shovng t actcs." Nether can one be surprsed at the belef that such games run good offcals almost as fast as the hgh school organzatons can tran new ones. Ths s not a clam that the hgh school type of game s always perfect or that all players, coaches and offcals a re above reproach. T here are stll plenty of mperfectons. Sometmes.-1 medocre offcal gets credt toward the end of a season because he wo1 ks n a clean game w thout blowng the whstle too much when the credt really les wth offcals who made s uch a game possble through cady season nsstence on rgd enforcement of the r ules or wth coaches who drll ther players to out-speed and outguess nstead o out-shove the opponent. T here arc stll scattered ndvduals who lke to hark back to the good old rough and ready poneer days. But despte these exceptons, hgh school offcals, coaches and admnstrators have declared ther ndependence. The hgh school game has outgrown ts swaddlng clothes. T he1 e s no need to ape the practces of a ny other g roup. Here s the game at ts best. Others may prefer the g ame seasoned wth a dash of hockey, rugby a nd ntmdaton but as for the hg h school g roups- No, thanks! They are not havng any. ; -o-.-~-~~o..-..,_u_n -n- -n~, l_t~u--,~-u--n.-4...,1.- -~-! DeLuxe Engravng Company 1 5 EAST THRD STREET CNCNNAT, OHO We make the pla tes for ths publcaton and also for the Hg hlander, 1 1 on e of the outstandng school annuals of K entucky..... f you w ant 1 superor prntng plates for your annual or any other purpose, w e wll be plea...! to ~ you. - -~..-.~~- -t-~1.1-j-)-- -)-10...()~.._.\_(.._l J... '..,._,,.-,,._t-(-.,._..,_, ~) _..)...()- (O- CO- t+:
Page Twelve T.ke kentucky HGH SCHOOL AT HLETE A Page from "An Athletc Anthology" ( Reprnted by permsson of Mr. H. \'. Porter) THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF SPORT AND OF EVERYTHNG ELSE l. Thou shalt not qut. 2. Thou shalt no t alb. 3. Thou shalt not g loat over w nnng. 4. Thou shalt not be a rotten loser. 5. Thou shalt not take unar advantage. 6. Thou shalt not ask odds thou a1 t unwllng to gve. 7. Thou ~ halt a lways be wllng to gve thne o pponent the shade. 8. Thou sha lt not under-es tmate an opponent, nor over-estmate thyself. 9. R emember that the game s tl1e thng, and that he who thnketh otherwse s a mucker and no t1 uc sportsrna n. 10. Honor the game thou playest, for he who playeth the game straght and hard wns eve n when he loses. -Hugh S. F ullerton. SELF CONTROL We are comng to realze that a game should he played between teams that respect one another and that unless ths can be true the game had better not be played. \ Vc arc comng to realze the mportance of havng as offcals for these games men of unquestonable competence and character. W e are comng to realze that admnstered n ths sprt the voce of sport may say to the heart of a hoy, " n a hard game you wll meet gruellng competton. t wll be your duty as a s portsman to endeavor by all far means to moblze strength, skll, endurance; no matter how,-oughly you may be used. to keep your temper and play far. When you pass out from the playng fe lds to the tasks of lfe you wll havl! the same responsblty restng upon you, n greater degree, of f ghtng for the cause you represent. You w ll meet btter and sometmes unfar opposton to all that you try to do. You wll meet defeat. The "lost causes" of hs tory arc proof that vctory wll not always come because the cause you represent s rght. You must be pret)ared to sec what you beleve to be wrong for the moment trumphant, and stll have courage to fght on. You must k now that the race s not always to the swft, nor the battle to the strong. Especally you must not forget that the great vctory of whch yon never can he robbed wll be the ablty to say, when tlw race s over and the battle done, that the flag you fought under was the wnnng Aag of sportsmanshp, never furled nor hauled down,and that n vctory or defeat you never lost that contempt for a breach of sportsmanshp whch wll prevent you from stoopng to t anywhere, anyhow, anytme. - Charles W. K ennedy. DO UNTO OTHERS, ETC. Ths exhortaton s not a sermon although the headng has the ap)>earancc o a text. t s wrtten after years of experence n the settlement of thousands of cases n a thletcs. t s beleved that there s a remedy for some of the ll feelngs engendered between schools and communtes regardng athletcs. O course, hutuan uature s what t s and there s no panacea for a ll of our lls. Oftc.:n a prncpal, coach, teacher, student, fan or Dame l{umor of one hgh school thnks he has reason to beleve a student of another hgh school nelgble. Convncng evdence s not at hand but the case s the subject o f conversaton and many mean th ngs are sad and done. The honesty and ntegrty of the students and school offcals o the other school are mpugned and happy relatonshps are somewhat straned. The sad part about all of ths s that the nformaton, true or false, that s used as the bass o the conversatons a nd straned relatonshps, does not reach the Prncpal of the school that has a student whose elgblty s n queston drectly from the Prncpal who has the n om1aton, or who has Dame Rumor n hs school or communty. Sometmes the nfom1aton s wthheld untl the student has partcpated and then the. H. S. A. A., rather than the Prncpal, s notfed. The wthholdng o evdence cannot be justfed and eleventh hour protests are not n order. The l.. S. A. A. recommends and strongly ;;tresses the reconnnendaton that the Prncpal and the Coach n one school, who ha\'e any reason to queston the elg blty status of a student n another school, should nfonn the other Prncpal and Coach as soon as the (JUCSton arses and pror to partcpaton of the student, f possble. There seems to be no vald reason why the Prncpal of one hg h school should not receve nformaton and questons d1 ectlv and f rankly from the Prncpal of another hgh school when the e l ~b lty of a student has been questoned. Surely, a l:'nncpal of a ny hgh school desres complete nformaton, carefull y documented, about hs athletes before trouble arses. A protest s not necessary n s uch cases. The queston should be ntroduced for settlement a nd there need be no ll feelngs at a ll. Both schools, hoth communtes and the student whose elgblty s n queston wll be benefted by a check and a de termnaton of the elgblty status of a student. f anyone had a queston about the elgblty of one of your players, what would you desre hm to do? f anyone had a queston about the number of games on your schedule, what would you de$re hm to do? f anyone had a queston about the age of one o f your students, what would you desre hm to do? l anyone had a queston about the conduct of your players or the way your athletcs s handled, what would yon desre hm to do? The exhortaton e nds as t began - Do Unto Others, E tc. -From the ndana October Bulletn.
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