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...,~U... CJ_U_U._.J._..-._.(~._.U..-,.U._,.J _.,..,_)_O_u_C- - - - -!- - -J-()-C-C>-0-(t... t_ \ Co_'_(. t, ' t t t t ' t j, ' M. E. LGON Frst Presdent - K. H. S. A. A.,t j J.V. E. L gon " as born at 0 \\'Cnton, Kentucky. He receved hs early j educaton n the publc and prvate schools of Owen County. TTe was grad- ~ uated from Georgetown College a nd l he U nve rsty o f Chcago. He has _ had a r ch and extended experence as a teacher and school admnstrator. j He taught n the schools of the Phlppne slands from 1905 to 1908. He was an elementary school prncpal n the schools of Paducah, Kentucky. - from 1908-19 1.0. 'll c taught physcs h tld chemstry n the O wensboro Hg h School, 19 10-1913. J e ;;e rved as p rncpal o f the Lexngton Tgh School, 1913-1919. He became superntendent of schools n Henderson n 1919 and j served untl 1921. le became prncpal uf the.\~h land Hgh School n 1921 j = and sen-cd there u ntl 192-J.. Snce 192-J. he has been professor of secondary educaton at the Unversty of Kentucky. Te ser\'cd as a member of the t! - board of drectors uf the K. E. f\. for several years and was elected pres- f dent and sen-ed for the year 1926. He s a deacon n Cah ary Baptst Church and teaches the :\ en's Bble Class. He s presdent of the Lexngton - Rotary Cl ub and s a member of the Lexngton Country Club. Golf and fs hng are hs hobbes. l.:.,_.,.,...,,~ ~~~.-...~.-..,..-..u.-.~~~ --- ~-...c..- c.-..c~...,.~ =,:_, ' j
The Kentucky Hgh School Athlete Otfdal Organ of the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton Vol. 1 No. 7. MARCH 1939 $1.00 Per Year. From the Presdent's Offce ln presentng through ths column the nterpretatons whch have been made from tme to tme dther by the presdent of the.board of Control, we art' endeavorng to gve the member schools a better un dcrstandng of the applc<tton of the consttuton, bylaws and tournament rules of the Assocaton. The u1anagers of the dstrct and regonal tournalllenb have the rght to set the tme of game> but the Board strongly ach ses that the wshes of the schools he taken nto account before the tme s set and that the tournament managers exercse ther authorty only when the schools seem to have made an unwse choce. A student ma v return to hs home school wthout l os~ of elgblty. f he has uot been a canddate for a place on any major athletc teams of the school whch he has attended outs<.le hs dstrct. Ths s the clear m plcaton of secton 2 of Rule V. An athlete may transfer wthout loss of elgblty from one hgh school to another n the same d strct provded the change s the result of hs parents' havng moved from one pa rt o the dstrct to another that s more convenent to the second school. Ths rule s applcable to ndependent dstrcts as well as to county dstrcts. n order better to understand ths rulng, let us take Madson County to llustrate the pont we wsh to make. Snce the county s one dstrct, any pupl n the county may attend any one of ts seven hgh schools. A pupl may transfer hom one of these schools to another wthout loss of elg blty 1vhcncver the parents move to a farm that >: more convcnen t to the second school. t s rn portant to remember that n these cases elgblty does not depend on the ds tance from the old resdence to the new. n several of the ndependent ds trcts there are two or more hgh schools jus t as there are seven hgh schools n the Macl::on County dstrct. 1 an athlete ma\ transfer rom one Madson Count\ school to anothe~ wthout loss of elgblty when hs parents move, then an athlete n an ndependent dstrct may change from one school to another n that dstrct under exactly the same condtons. However, each case must stand on ts own merts and should be submtted to the presdent for an offcal rulng. The decson here quoted should not be consdered as blanket authorty for changes wtho ut loss o f elgblty. The drawngs for d ~tr ct tournaments have always dsclosed m sunderstandngs relatve to the meanng of several of our tournament rules. n the course of years n many decsons nvolvng such case ~. the Board has unformh held: Frst, that a d rawng made at any tme after due notce has been receved hy all schools s bndng upon all. Second, that when a school s notfed of the proposed date of the drawng and does not appear to partcpate n the drawng or to protest the dra.wng, From the Secretary's Offce STATE TOURNAMENT PASSES!\ume, ous requests arc comng n for prncpals' an<.l coaches' passes to the state tournament. T hese passes wll be ssued at the tournament as they have hecu prevo usly. A plan has been worked out fo r the ssung of these passes whch should prove superor to that of former years. P rncpals and coaches should have some method of dentfyng themselves f they ha\ c not attended the tournament prevously and are not known to tournament offcals. Tournament Rule 16 requres the presentaton o the school's membershp certfcate and the flng of sgnatures wth the person ssung the passes. PROPOSALS School offcals who wsh to propose changes n the Consttuton, By-Laws, or Tournament Rules of the a~socat on should f1le these l)roposals wth the scc1 ctary at once. SCHOOL REPORTS NOW DUE. 1938 F ootball Partcpaton L st. 2. School's Report on l"ootball Offcals. 3. 1938-39 Basketball Partcpaton Lst. 4. School's Report on Basketball Offcals. REPORTS NOW DUE FROM OFFCALS 1. Offcal's Report on Schools (l"ootball). 2. Offcal's Report on Schools ( Basketball). Numerous schools have not fled elgblty lsts for 1937-38. A lst of these schools was prnted n the February ssue of the magazne. The secretary has made repeated efforts to get these lsts to no aval. U nless these lsts are receved mmedately. the mat tcr wll have to be brought to the attenton of the Board of Control. that t has lost ts cght to appeal to the Board of Control. Thrd, that a school can not pre, ent the holdng o a drawng hy mere falure to send a representatve. The Board has recently held that a drawng made earler than two weeks before the tournament s vald under the rules. t has also held that the Board can not enforce an oral agreement made pror to the drawng to the effect that f certan condtons pre valed another drawng would be held. t has always been the polcy of the Board not to undertake to ~n force oral agreements. The Board s w thout au thorty to alter the wr tten provsons o a contract between two schools unk ss the provsons a re n volaton of the consttuton and ll\ -laws. T he Board must therefore enforce the usual p~nalty pro\ ded for n any contract or falure to carry out a school's pledge to play a game on a specfed date. Ths rule was appled recently to a case nvolvng the nablty of a team to meet ts engage mcnt because of hgh water over the roads. and to another case where the vstng team through no fault of ts own found the host's gymnasum dark when t arrved to carry out ts contract.
Page Two MARCH, 1939 Vol., No. 7. Publshed monthly, except June, J uly, and August, by the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton. Edtor..........- -- - - -- -.RT;SSELL K BROG ES 32 ndana Avenue, Fort Thomas. Kentucky BOARD OF CONTROL Presdent............... \\". F. O'Donnell, Rchmond Vce-Preadtnt...... Russell. Brdges, Fort Thomas Secretuy-Treasurer --- - - Theo..'\. Sanford, Carrollton Drectors- John A. Dotson, Benham; \V. B. Owen, Hor se Ca, c: ]. lllatt Sparkman, Benton. Subscrpton Rates... Sl.OO per Year T he Artcle PRACTCAL SANTATON N H l GH SCHOOL ATHLETCS appearng on pages 10, 11, and 12 of t hs ssue s released to The Athlete by specal request of M r. 'vv. L. Terry, Presde nt of the Kentucky Health and Physcal Educaton Assocaton. t s made up of a seres of artcles prepared for the llnos Athlete by Mr. C. 0. J ackson, Unversty of llnos. Extra copes may be secured drectly f rom Mr. Jackson. ---- : ---- Tournan1ent nformaton Twenty-frst Annual Kentucky State Basketball Tournament, March 16, 17, and 18, 1939, at Unversty o Kentucky Gymnasum, Lexngton, Kentucky. S:xtecn of Kentucky's Outstandng "Thoroughbred'' Regonal Champons competng {or the State Champonshp. Sx Bg Sessons-16 T hrll-flled Games. \ Real Clnc, Vacaton and Coachng School that no Kentucky Coach should mss. 1938 Kentucky Champons - Sharpe Hgh School o Regon 1. PAST STA T E CHAMPONS 1918 Owensboro 1929 H eath 1919 Lexngton 1930 Cornth 1920 Lcxt,gton 1931 Manual 1921 Manual 1932 H azard 1922 Lexngton 1933 Ashland (Natonal Champs) 1934 Ashland 1923 Manual 1935 St. Xaver (Natonal 1924 Lexngton Catholc Champs) 1925 Manual 1936 Corbn 1926 St. Xaver 1937 Mdway 1927 M. M.. 1938 Sharpe 1928 Ashland 1939 (Natonal Champs) Sports wrters made the followng selectons on :\!arch 1, 1939. Keep ths lst and check t on March 19th. Se, eral have been defeated n Dstrct play before ths goes to press. Votes Votes Male... 63 Hghland... 8 Covngton... 44 Brooksvlle... 7 Hazard... 37 Valley Staton... 6 Oxford... 35 Wllamsburg... J Ashland... 31 Newport... 4 Paducah... 26 Harrodsburg... 4 Horse Cave... 20.Mlton... 4 Heath... 20 Kavanaugh... 4 Pars... 13 Tyner... 4 Madsonvlle... 10 Tnez... 4 Erlanger... 10 Maysvlle... 3 1'he KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE St. Xaver... 3 Black Star... 2 Gamalel... 3 Glasgow... 2 Ol,-e Hll... 3 Benham... 1 Frenchbuq(... 3 Corbn... 1 Cah crt Cty... 3 Owensboro... ).fanual... 2 COACHES TO P CK OFFCALS Under the new rule. of the K. H. S. A. A. whereby the State Tournament s now under the management o the Secretary of the Assocaton t became the duty of the Board of Control for the ftrst tme n 1938 to select offcals for the State Tournament. F ve men of experence, ablty and reputaton were chosen from a large lst of applcants. The men who worked the 1938 tournament were selected on a bass of abltv as revealed by hundrqds of letters of re.commendator. They rau true to fon11 of all tournament o ffcals. They pleased some, and dssatsfed others. For tha t they arc enttled to nether prase nor censure- they merely called them as they saw them wthout fear or favor. For the 1939 Tournament the Board of Control has adopted a new polcy of selectng the offcals. Frst a lst of 16 approved offtcals has been made. Ths lst of 16 represents every secton of the stat..: and ncludes all offcals who were recommended from any secton. The coaches of the sxteen Regonal Champons wll be asked to rate these offcals n the order of ther preference and the four offcals recevng the hghest ratngs wll be selected to work the 1939 State Tournament. The men on the lst arc: Lews Ltchfeld, Prnceton; Acree Austn, Mayfeld; J allles Deweese, Sedala; Edgar Stansbury, and Arnold Wnkenhofer, Bowlng Green: Ralph Mlls, Hopknsvlle; Buford Clark and Herb T yc, Barbourvlle; Edgar Mc.l\abb and George wrght, Bellevue; Yancey Burks, Horse Cave; Frenchy Demosey and Elmer Glb, Lexngton : C. G. Lamb, Covngton; Es Davs, Benham; and Herb Gruber of Lousvlle. As a member of the Board of Control, your edtor voted for ths plan of selectng the State Tournament Offcals, but dd so skeptcally. Years of experence u selectng offcals and n observng groups of coaches a nd pdncpals select them fals to convnce one that ths s the best way. At a meetng of the coaches and prncpals called recently for the purpose of makng arrangements for one of the Regonal Tournaments more that 25 offcals, many of them outstandng men for years, were scratched from the elgble lst Ths apparently was done for no good reason except that some coach had lost a game when a certan man happened to be behnd the whstle on t he fateful nght. Ths occurred n a communty that has had some very fne offcals for many years. f 8 men can not agree on who arc the two best offcals n one small area, t s hardly concevable that 16 men from o, er the entre state wll be able to select the best men from a group wth whom thev are not acquanted and about whom thev know -less than nothng. n the meetng referred to above, the name of Kat Holman of Xew York was submtted- to nject humor. One coach objected mmedatelv and serously on the ground that he had never seen the offcal, :.\'lr. Holman. work n a game. and that he would object to any man that he had not seen n acton. The lst presented to the coaches contans the names of excellent offcals. May we hope that they can agree on the best avalable. And don't forget. the school men of Kentucky have decreed that these offcals must be resdent Kentucky offcals. All o{ the above named men meet ths qualfcaton. ----:- - -- THE MAN WHO WOKE UP AND FOUND HM SELF A SUCCF.SS HAD TO WAKE UP TO DO T.
for MARCH, 1939 Page Three Prncpals and coaches who have bee11 attendng the State Tournaments for the past few years wll remember rhat the conduct of the players and occasonally the team followers has not on every occason been such as to elct great prase ether for themselves or for ther home and schooj tranng. t was a r~;a pleasure to report to the schools of Kentucky at the close of the tournament. last year that teams, coaches, and team follo\vers of the 1938 S tate Tournament bad set a new hgh n sportsmans hp and general conduct both at the games and n and a round the hotels. vve had the postve statements from Lexngton Hotel Managers that never n the hstory of the tournaments had they observed such splendd behavor and genune good sportsmanshp as was dsplayed by the young people who attended the tournament last year. That ndeed, was a complment to the homes and the schools responsble for the tranng of our voung people. Certanly, we want to rnautan and even exceed that record. \Vth the dea n mnd that we mght make the 1939 Tourney a Banner Performance n every respect, we as ked Mr. ] ohn G. Cramer, manag-er of the Phoenx H otel to wrte a letter to the school men of Kentucky n w hch he would express some of hs deas regardng the behavor of young people attendng nter-school contests. n hs many years experence he has had ample opportunty to observe them at close range whle they were not under the drecton of parents or teachers. Mr. Cramer's letter follows: Dear Mr. Brdges: NEW. PHOENX COMPANY ncorporated Lexngton, Kentucky The more thnk of your request to wrte somethng about the 1939 vntage of Hgh School Students, the harder the job seems to appear. So many con Actng factors now govern the school and home lfe of young folks that t s qute doubtful f a ny materal change from present customs could be m ade, should an ndvdual or a group of them possess a deepseated desre to face about. The daly applcaton of the -trne honored tenets as outlned n the Decalogue and "Golden Rule" and 1n tbe axoms, "Honesty s the Best Polt:y'", "There s no substtute for common decency and genteel behavor" and other smlar sentment once consdered of prme mportance and necessarly an ntegral part of the ntellectual make up of a lady or gentleman, regardless of Dun & Bradstreet ratng, have n recent years become less and less notceable to the naked eye untl today practcally "everythng goes" n the matter of publc behavor wth old, young. anc:l at tmes graduate nfants, f one cares to see t. t s doubtful f chldren brought up n a home atmosphere o ndfference to, or dsregard for. the refnng nfluences that play such mportant part n shapng youthful character and ntegrty, hgh deals and ablty to dffe1 entate good from bad and to resst harmful temptaton should be blamed for the nablty of many of them to do so, ether because of Jack of knowledge, or because of wlful determnaton to show off ther modern tendency to ' turn on" as the sayng goes. As stated n the begnnng of ths letter, there are many conflctng factors that row govern chld lfe at home, at school, and n the open that t s dffcult to outlne satsfactorly a suggeston or workable schedule of what could or mght be done to elevate the tre.nd of thought n chldren of Hgh School and College age necessary to elmnate or reduce or mprove the amount of uncouth rowdysm, nosy, drunkenness, and other forms of 1usbchavor that frequently occur when they are n m ass formatons for no apparent reason other than to g ve vent to an unfortunate desre to explode a charge of ''School Sprt," wr1atever Research Specalsts have determned that to be. t s not the desre or purpose of ths wrter by nference or n any way to ndcate that he beleves all chldren are bad. They arc, nherently, to some extent. The Bble tells of sparng the rod and spolng.!;he chld n days gone by, but apparently few parents t)ay any atten ton to that warnng now. Vve have known cases where the chld ought to take the rod and try to keep the parent from spolng, but that would be contrary to the "Honor thy Father and thy Mother" theory. \Ve do not recall ever havng seen a student rumpus n full blast dr.u ng whch tme any effort was made by the "good students" present among them to help quell the dsturbance. That was always left to polce or other nterference. mantan that student ene1 gy and polce effort should always work n the same drecton, and not n melee forrnaton, that would ndcate that modern school sprt decrees that those who do not jon n the spectacular manfestatons must applaud or acquesce n the deeds of the belgerents, and not hnder or mpede them. However, recent developments ndcate that the group of men now n control of Kentucky Hgh Schol Student Athletcs have brought about marked changes for mprovement among student bodes on athletc excursons. The p ublc should commend ths effort n hghest terms and lend every encouragement. The young boys and grls o today are the a dult You and 's of tomorrow. They need and arc enttlec:l to the sympathy, help and benefcal nfluence of today's adults, whether any of them are kn to each other or not. O ur duty to the F lag and to our Country demands that we gve them a ll we have n the way of h.elpful gudance. Young race hon;es 111 Kentucky, of the Anmal Kngdom, have blood lnes to be cared for and protected. The chldren of Kentucky, human bengs, have both blood lnes and morals to he consdered carefully. Whch of the two, as a general proposton, get the greatest amount o consstent care at all tmes? Yours, n the nterest of Kentucky chldren becomng dstngushed Kentuckans, ]NO. G. CRAMER, Manager.
Page Four The KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE Facts About The atonal Federaton nterscholastc Football Rules By ]. R. ~f O t.: KTJ OY What s the Faderaton? 1t s a natonal organzaton made up of State Hgh School Athletc Assocatons. Representatves are state board of control members or some one apponted by <them. Votng s by states. ts purpose s to sponsor actvtes for promotng the welfare of the hg h schools n whch jont acton of the varous state assocatons s desrable. How a the F oothall Commttee made up? The board of control of each member state that uses the rules, apponts a m ember to represent that s tate. The edtors arc appon ted by t he Natonal Federaton Executve Commttee. A ll of the members arc thoroughly acquanted w th the needs o f the HGH SCHOOLS and a rc actvely engaged n some type of HGH SCHOOL ATHLETC \VORK. Publcaton of Rules The rules book and supplementary books are publshed by the Federaton and suppled at cost to the State Athletc Assocatons. They are also sold to dealers who may sell them at prces set by the Federaton. The profts to the Federaton from the sale of books, are used to fnance the commttee meetngs and other actvtes of lke nature. Adoptons of the Rules The nterscholastc rules were frst publshed n 1932 and used n three states-llnos, o wa and vvseonsn. T hey were so successful that they were offcally adopted for all school contests n those states. Almost mmedately other states began to ask nformaton about the rules and to adopt them offcally. A t the present tme they have been adopted for all nterscholastc contests n the states of Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, F lorda, daho, llnos, owa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mane, Mnnesota, M ssour, Montana, North Dakota, Nebra:;ka, New Mexco, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvana, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Washngton, \Vsconsn, \Vyomng. The states of Mchgan and Oho arc usng the rules n some sectons and sent reprcsen tatvcs to the rules meetng ths year. They have not Yet offcally adopted t he rules but are expectng to do so soon. Several other states arc usng the rules n part but have never joned the Federaton. Stll others have no state organzaton nad so do not have the machnery necessary to jon the Federaton. There are more than 11.000 Hgh School teams usng the Federaton rules. Approxmately two-thrds o all the football played n the Unted States next year wll be played under the Federaton rules. T here s now almost unversal agreement that rules for the hgh school game should be formulated by men who are thoroughly famlar wth the hgh school needs and selected by hgh school men thru ther state and natonal orgaozatons. Advantages of the nterscholastc Rulas There arc many advantages that come from usng the Federaton rules. n the frst place, few offcals know the rules, ether Federaton or Collegate. Hence for them Lo have to learn a new sc~ w ll only result n ther revew of all rules. Very few coaches know the rules and absolutely no players know them. To be a ble;: to coaclt or play the g-ame well we should ltave a rule book that a lmost anyone can read and understand. Y.lho ever heard of a player who could read ~he College code a nd understand t? T he Federaton rules have been made wth the dea of havn(! them studed not o nly by expert offcals a nd coaches but by the hgh school players themselves. Care has been taken n the wordnp- and arrangement so that the code lends ts elf to class study. Even at the expense of makng the code more lengthy, varous questonable ponts have been defntely covered n the Federaton rules. t s natural that there should he some concern as to whether the adopton of the nterscholastc rules make t dffcult for offcals to work n both hgh school and college games. t has been found that the better hgh school offcals have no dffculty n adjustng themselves to the college game. The better college off cals have no dffculty callng a hgh school game. The only offcals who have had any real trouble are those who never dd know the rules and would not understand them regardless of whether there s one code or several. t s natural for the o ff cals to want to make ther work easer and one code would no doubt do that. But the hgl1 schools are havng to pay the bll. Federaton nles arc makng t possble to pay that bll, because they have opened up the game. The people lke an open game, so they wll come out a nd sec the boys play. H gh school coaches and o ff ca ls arc not unnduly ted by tradton. H methods of mprovng- the game or the code an.: dscovered, the hg h school men show a wllngness to gve them a tral. ~!f o re 1han twenty major changes n the Collegate rules were poneered by the Federaton rules commttee. The professonal rules commttee has adopted even more than that. Evdently some of the hgh school rules commtteemen have been dong some pretty s traght thnkng. Every hgh school football coach n Kcntuckv. and of e, ery other member s tate, has the opportuny to express an opnon on every contemplated major change n the code before the commttee meets. t s done n tl~ e f?nll o f a qucstonare. The fndngs of the Questtona re are tabulated and the corumnee s guded by the desres of the majorty. The coaches are asked whether. the major changes of the year before are satsfactory or not. The followng wll show how most of the rule changes have been accepted by the coaches : 1. A forward pass may be thrown anywhere behnd the lne of scrmmage. ls ths rule satsfactory? Yes 1026, No 73 2. The sde.zone s 15 yards w de nstead of 10. s ths rule satsfactory? Yes 1015, No 86.
jor MARCH, 1939 3. The penalty for llegal shft s 5 yards. s ths satsfactory? Yes 1789, No 48. And many others. Approxmately 1100 coaches returned the questonare n 1938. Nearlv 2000 returned them n 1939. Ths tends to show that the hgh school coaches are becomng 1110rc nterested n ther own a ffar. t s hard to understand how any hgh school coach or admnstrator could serously consder returnng to the usc of collegate rules. H gh school admnstrators have never had any representaton on the Collegate rules commttee, although they have ought for t for many years. The hgh schools have always realzed that the college rules were not satsfactory for hgh school play, but they could do nothng about t. Fnally a group of men decded to do somethng, so they wrote a new set of rules. n sx years they have been so well receved that more than two-thrds of all the football played n the Unted S tates next fall, wll be played under ther rules. t s reported that 119 hgh schools n Kentucky sponsored football teams last fall. Twelve colleges \Yere represented by football teams. t looks lke a case of the tal waggng the dog when we thnk of returnng to college rules. t s better to return to college rules than to substtute a hybrd stuaton as was suggested by a certan offcals group. U nder hybrd rules you would have no a uthorty to turn to whatever. t seems that there are only t wo questons to answer. Do the hgh schools want to return to a stuaton n whch they have no voce whatever? Are they gong to say that men, who are not connected wth hgh schools, and who have no nterest n hgh schools, can wrte a better set of rules for our boys than we can wrte ourselves? t doesn't seem reasonable that those questons could possbly be answered n the affrmatve. The offcals n Kentucky work for 119 hg h schools. T he vast majorty of them never work n a college game. Do the hgh schools want a small group of offcals who sometmes work a college game, to tell them what knd of rules thcv should use, just because the offcal does not wanf to learn two sets o rules~ After all. the hgh schools are payn-- the bll. The offcal should be able to furnsh whatever the hgh schools want as long as he s workng for a fee. The good offcal s not havng any trouble. Those fellows who are n a fog now. were n o ne long ago. t seems reasonable to beleve that n the next few years that nearly all the hgh school football n the Unted States wll be played under the federaton rules. Surely Kentucky wll contnue to play the pan of a leader n ths good work. - - - -:- - -- SUPPLEMENTARY LST BASKETBALL OFFCALS Yancy Burks, H orse Cave. Charles Harrs. Carrollton. Robert Hckey, 573 ' oodland, L exngton. woodrow W. H nkle. Rchmond. Ralph Mlls, Hopknsvlle. George. Rggs, Jr., Calhoun. E. C. Roemele, 306 Shelby, Frankfort. ] ames Salato, Vllage, Bowlng Green. Gale T empln, 946 Burton, Lousvlle. Dalton Wlla ms, 1836 E. Parkway, Lousvlle. SUPPLEMENTARY LST FOOTBALL OFFCALS Robert Hckey, Woodland, Lexngton. Dayton Wllams, 1836 E. Parkway, Lousvlle. MARCH MADNESS Page Fve Homo of the Hardwood Court s a hardy spece. There are mllons of hm. He exsts through summer and all, shows sgns of anmaton through the wnter and lves to the utmost durng March w hen a hundred thousand pars of rubber soled shoes slap the hardwood n a whrlwnd of stops and pvots and dashes on the tral to the state champonshps. He s a glutton for punshment. when the March madness s on hm, mdnght jaunts of a hundred mles on successve nghts make hm even more alert the next day. He wll polsh hs pants on sxteen nches of bleacher seat through two games or three and takes offense f asked to leave durng the ntermsson between sessons. He s happy only when the floor s hmmers wth reflectons of fast movng streaks of color, when the players,;warm at each end and the ar s full of leather. For the duraton of the endemc he s a statstcal expert who knows the record of each contender, a game strategst who spots the weak pon~ s n a gven system of oense or defense - a rules techncan who nstructs the o ffcals wthout cost or request. Every canne has hs day and ths s Homo's month. He s a doodler who, whle con\ ersng, scrbbles free throw lanes wth a hundred alleys. n May the three symbols of the New York Far wll take on ther ntended meanng but n March the perclne s a ramp to the balcony, the trylon s the pyramd of hundreds of teams beng narrowed down to the one at the state champonshp pnnacle a nd the perspherc has the tr.adtonal fo ur panel basketball markngs. n everyday lfe he s a sane and serous ndvdual tryng to earn enough to pay hs taxes. But he does a Jekyl-Hyde act when the spell s on hm. He lkes hs coffee black and hs basketball hghly spced. H e despses the stall-unless hs t eaj1j s ahead. t s a major crme for the offcal to call a foul on the drbbler- unless the opponent s drbblng. Hs m oods are as changeable as a March wnd. He flys nto a frenzy at some trval happenng on the court and before hs vocal expresson of dsapproval s half completed he howb n delght at the humorous twst of a comment from the bleachers. He s part of the mass mnd and s subject to ts whms. le berates the center for attemptnv a long shot and lauds hm when t goes n the basket. H e s consstent onlv n hs nconsstences. - The thud of the ball on the fl oor, the slap o f hands on leather-the swsh of th e net are musc n hs ears. H e s a connosseur n matters pertanng to team coordnaton and artstry n acton. The shftng zone, the screen and the spot pass are an open book to hm. He speaks the language. H e s based, nosy, fdgety, boastful and unreasonable-but we love hm for hs mperfectons. Hs lack of nhbtons adds a spontanety that colors th!' tournaments. ' thout darkness there would be no lg ht. A lttle March madness may complement and contrbute to santy and help keep socety on an e ven keel. T he wrter's temperature s rsng. The thng s c.atchng. t's got me! Gm.rne that playng schedule! - As Dagnosed by H. V. PORTER.
Page Sx The KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE ++ " -~ "' ~ l!lj ~..;.: l 1 g 0 " < " ATHLETC ASSOCATONS < 8 A "l ;.; 0 Q " ""' ~ FACTS ABOUT STATE HGH SCHOOL.~... j 1 1 J! ~, j : ~ l ~l! J'u mber of Member Schools J 3191 59 400 2051 97 _j 231 1 416 / 168 918 1!J4 p_~~ 1362 : 185 1 170 12.!1.. 2'>Prox. 1-j- 1 1 ~ No. o[ pupls n.me mber Schools 56m 18m ~Om1 40m 77m 3Smf 6-lmJ 33ml260m 167m 136m SOml Sm 36mj 39m 221m Have [uj tme pa>d uecutvc ~-~- ~- ~ ~- ~ -~- ~ ~-~- ' L.:. l _~ l_j_l_/_1± Requre regstraton o Offcals _ \ J \_ 1_ _ :_....: J.:. _ J ~~ate nles nterpretaton mectug~_._\ _ _ l l \_ _1_1_ 1_ _~ 1 - _l_ _ l_ _\_ _l_ _ l_ _ : _._ l _: ) --'- State has organ. o offcals w thout re~:s. / \ _\_1_ _1 1_ 1 l_ l l_l_l_l j_._/_ _1 ;~1- Use nterscholastc Football Rules - -~ l=l=l_l_ l_j_. _ ~=~- \_ l_l_ _ _ _/_ J L 1 Sponsor athletc accdent plan l \ 1 1 \ _l \_ \_ l l, j_._j j J - Determne state champonshps,,. \ 1:-ll -)-. ----+-1----' l?ootball L_l * - +--l-------+1- --!--+---. Basketball ~ * * \ * " " / ' ' / ' / / T rack and Feld n~.. [ *,-, l_l. 1_ 1. [. 1-.-+1 -. +-] -\--+---1------\..!..! re~nru~ s ~~----~ 1----:-J l - - ~-1-:-1-1-1-1-J-. l-~- 1-1-. 1-1- 1:-l--+--T------l Go --~S~wnum :.. _ng------~ ~ ~-: 1 1 ~-.- ~-.-~-~- -F,-.-~~~ Wrestlng _ 1_ 1 * 1_1 * --~~L---------~1 +, -+1 -+-+--~~...:So~ rt~ba~l!.- 1 -------- ---tl- -jl_ 1[- 1_1 1 1 ':--+-- +---,- - -+----f---1 Baseball _ J-=..J_ 1! 1-'-+1-r--r---+--+--l _s_~ ~-~e-spo_!=;~~~~.!:!!.';.:!2.r;_ct-v_t e_s _n_: ----:-~-~L.. +-! -, *! T1 ~ l llfuscal 1_ 1+1_1_ _1_ J= -1 -,:------r--+---+------1 1--, Commercal, * 1_-rl - --t-- -+---+-+--+ Ha"e srate sponsored grls' athletc assn. 1_ 1 _\_[ _ '-f --~ \- -/=\ Publsh bulletn at regular ntmals J J * [ [ [----t---\---...!,----4--+!:.)[~cm~b~e~r ~o~f ~~~. a'--'to~n...!al~f:!!'ed;!.. er~a!!:to~n.:=:... --') \ U_l_ _l_ _l_l [ * 0 _.:._ 1_._1_ _1_ 1, --"---'----L ---------------------------- Some Com1nents on the Organzaton of The 1(. H. S. A. A. t)ble enrollment. ~No State Athletc Assn. State Department of Publc nstructon promotes athletcs. By M. E. LGON, Frst Presdent T became prncpal of the Lexngton H g h School n 1913. The school then had a student body of al>proxmately 500. soon dscovered that athletcs n the hgh school were beng run by the students wth lttle supervson and lttle coachng. Durng the frst year n the school tred to correct some of the evls that were exstng but soon dscovered that there was no organzaton to whch could appeal for help concernt1g elgblty of players, schedulng of games, and thngs of t hat sort. n May 1914, nvted the prncpals and superntendents of all the towns n central Kentucky to meet me n Lexngton wth a vew to dscussng the w hole s ubject o athletcs. At that frst meetng t was agreed that t would be proftable to au the schools of central Kentud.-y f we would bnd ourselves together n an assocaton. At a meetng about one month later the assocaton was perfected and rules of elgblty were drawn up " nd schedules made or the ensung year. Ths assocaton operated untl 1916. The nauence of the Central Kentucky Hgh Schoot Athletc Assocaton had spread to o ther parts of the state, and a meetng was called n 1916, durng the K. E. A., for the purpose of dscussng the advsablty of o rganzng a state hgh school athletc assocaton. The meetng was called n the Seelbach H otel n Lousvlle n Aprl 1916. Offcers were elected and the rules of elgblty of the Central Kentucky Hg h School Athletc Assocaton were adopted for the frst year. was elected presdent of the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton at that frst meetng, and served the.;\ssocaton untl 1926. attempted to goycrn the Kentucky Hgh School Athletc Assocaton durng my perod o offce on thoroughly democratc prncples. Few commttees were apponted to fo rmulate rules of e lgblty and thngs of ths sort.
for t\'larch, 1939 Page Seveu _,: g E :a 0 g.: ;; ~...:. ~ u ~ "".S1..,... :...,:;; "' ~ 2 ~ ~ "'~ ~ ~ ~ [ ~ :;: <>.. :~ ;:;:a z z 2 0 0 0 ;>., P u ~~:5>> ~ ~.. ~... 83 1530 756 1 212 570 32, 9S 185 1135 554 330 1 225 11142 721 255 ' 836, 29 ' 235 312 r :;-J5397 74 95 238 290 218-'- 455 79 ' 22114-1-1 - r--,-- 1- - 1 20m SSm 106m! 32m 6Sml 4m 28m 15mlll8rn 30ml280m 107m 54ml 331m 12mt 38m 54m _L 20m 64m 7ml140m( 18rnl 3130m + L l J!L *..... 1- - 1-1- 1..!8 :-r. 1. 1 1 1 1 : _L 1 1 1. 1. 1.. 1. 1. 1. 1 1 1 r~r~ r 31-1... ~ 1_ 1_1_1_ 1_1_ _,_j. 1----rl 14 ~--1.... _ - 1_1... h'. ~ -. 25 1 ~.....,_,_._l_j 1 13,_f-_J! _,_ L!_)._ 1 _-!-~-:--)-1_ )_ -!-!- 1~!_:_!_ J-!-!-J_.! 12....!.,_. _ ',_. _* _* 1_ 1_ *_ 1. 43.!..!- -1_1_ _!- -:- -!-!- j - - 1_ _ 1 _ _\- -!~-!. 14!.! l. 41.. l " J. 1--=-1,_. 31 1 1 1. 1 1 1 1. 1 1 4 -,-,~-,-, -:-r =-~-- ~-.-~-~-.-~ -=-~-~-~ 1 1 r 1,-1--;- +- 1 --+1- ~--,-, 1-1,' * " 19 -+1--+1---1-1! 1 * - ' 1-,.-~- ~-, 16 1_1! 1 r--~-~-,-~-~ 1 1 ' 1----+1-1 11 1 1 1 1 1 / 1 1 - * '. 1 * ' * 13 \,, ' l_l_ l_ * * * 15 l ~ -.-~-~- ~-. 1_1_1_ 1_ 1_ /_l_' 1-,-1 l 9 1 Repr cscntalves o f all member schools were nvted 10 meet once a year durng the K. E. A. and st down together and thrash out the changes n exstng rules and n the formulaton of new rules. Ths method was long and tedous. n fact, we assembled for our meetngs at 6:00 o'clock for dnner. W e would then st around these tables and dscuss our problems. and frequently we remaned n these meetngs untl well after mdnght. \Vhen rules o_f elgblty were fnally thrashed out and agreed upon and adopted by the Assocaton, the superntendents. prnc pals, and coaches would return to ther schools and put forth an honest effort to see that ther schools lved up to these regulatons. Of course, the Assocaton grew rapdly, and about the tme of my resgnaton from the offce of presdent t became necessary to appont commttees 'to study varous phases of the work of the Assocaton. Durng my admnstraton t became necessary for the Board of Control, consstng of the presdent, vce-presdent, and secre-tary, to rule upon the elgblty of many players. Here and there a school would a ppear that attempted to evade the rules of elg blty. Sometmes t became very dffcult fo r the Board to secure accurate nformaton concernng the age of players and the school records of the players. But on the whole schools cooperated well and. lttle _ by lttle, the rules and regulatons of the Assocaton were accep led as beng far for all and all attempted to enforce them. t was a pleasure on my part to sec the Assocaton grow from a lttle han elf ul of schools n 1916 to several hundred members n 1926. Some of the m o~t pleasant school ex Pl~ r en ccs that have had, have hecn my assocatons wth the coaches and prncpals of the hgh schools of Kentucky. t has been a source of great gtatfcaton to me to sec ths small effort on my part, begnnng n Lexng tou n 1914, g row to the proportons that t now has n 1939. J wsh to congratulate the present offcers on the fne way n whch they have conducted the Assoca ton. have been nterested n athletcs all these years and get a great deal of pleasure from attendng the games and seeng the development o character that s takng place through the medum of the Athletc Assocaton.
Page Eght The KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE Demonstraton Ga1ne - Unversty of Kentucky MARCH. 18, 19l9 ::. 1! A., M., Gvn1nastun. On March 18th at 1\. M. at the U nversty of Kentucky gymnasum the Kentucky Coaches Assocaton wll hold a demonstraton basketball game whcl the coaches and general publc arc nvted to attend. Three experments wll be tred n th:. demonstraton game Saturday mornng, namely XO J UMP BALL, SCOR NG COUNT and DVDNG THE RESPON SBLTY OF THE TWO OFFCALS. No Ju:mp Ball. The game wll start by puttng the ball n play at the end of the court oppostt: the goal of the offens1 c team. VVhenever a te ball, or a jump ball under the present rule, the ball wll go to the defensve team out of bounds. n case o f a te ball on a rebound, the ball wll go to the defensve team or to the team that w:ts on the defense when the attempt for the goal was made. Scorng. Feld goals wll count three ponts and fouls one pont. Responsblty of Offcals. One referee follows the offensve team tlown the floor and s charged wth ralng the rul.; volatons nf carryng outsde the oul lnt:. The othej offcal llo\'es 10 or near the end of the court as the ball s advanced toward hs goal and calls only such nfractons of the rules as occur wthn the 17 foot area. Ther capactes change as soon as the ball changes poston and the advance s toward the other goal. Ths plan s desgned to dvde the dutes and responsbltes of the two men equally and to elmnate such absurd stuatons such as ca llng by one offcal a foul commtted clear across the floor from hm and practcally under the nose of the other offcal. The demonstraton game wll be played by t wo hgh school teams that are e lmnated n the frst round of the state hgh school tournament. The Kentucky Coaches Assocaton wll keep statstcs o n the ffteen games of the state tournament checkng the number of jump balls, etc. The followng s the form whch wll be used by the Coaches Assocaton : 939 KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TOURNAME NT STATSTCAL REPORT ON THE J UM P BALL FOR K. H. S. C. A. March..... Game........ vs..... Total No. Jump Balls...... 1. No. jump balls when defense fouled..... 2. No. jump balls when offense fouled..... 3. No. jump balls should not have been called.... 4. No. jump balls on the rebound.... 5. No. jump balls n front 17' lne..... 6. No. jump balls nsde 17' lne.... 7. No. jump balls not called that should have been called...... Total No. Tmes Ball Out Of Bounds..... 1. No. tmes ball out of bounds caused by defense..... 2. No. tmes ball out of bounds caused by offense.... 3. No. tmes ball out of bounds caused by walkng...... Total No. Fouls Called..... 1. No. fouls called n front 17' lne.... 2. No. fouls called nsde 17' lne..... V. Total Amount of Tme Consumed by Jump Balls.... (Note : 1\os. 3 and 7 under No. arc merely the judgment of the statstcan.) STATSTCAL REPORT ON EXPERMENTAL BASKETBALL GAME for the K. H. S.C. A. March 18, 1939 - A. M. \ fs.... l. Tot.al No. Out Of Bounds..... l.!\o. out of bounds caused by tc ball..... 2. No. out of bounds caused by walkng..... 3. No. out of bounds should not have been called.... 4. No. out of bounds n front of 17' lne.... 5. No. o ut of bounds nsde of 17' lne.... 6. 1\o. out of bounds cau$ed by defense.... 7. No. out of bounds caused by offense..... Total No. Fouls Called..... Referee A..... Fouls nsde 17' lne..... 2. Fouls outsde 17' lne... ".... 2. Referee B..... Fouls nsde 17' lne.... 2. Fouls outsde 17' lne..... ll. Total Antount of Tme Consumed Out Of Bounds Te Ball...... (1\ote: No. 3 under Ko. s merely the judgment of the statstcan.) -A. L. LASSTER, Presdent K. H. S. C. A
f or MARCH, 1939 Page Nn e From the Conferences and The 64 Regonal Tournaments Pars Greyhounds Take C. K. C. Crown Fnal conference standngs, under the percentage system: \Von Lost Pts. O.P. Pet. Pars... 14 2 414 280.875 Lawrenceburg... 10 2 354 259.833 Harrodsburg... S 4 365 250.667 rvne... 6 3 185 158.667 Lexngton... 6 3 181 149. 667 Maysvlle... 4 2 184 138. 667 Mt. Stedng... 7 4 259 240.636 Ncholasvlle... 5 3 183 148.625 Madson... 8 5 327 204.615 \~1 nchester... 9 6 379 299.600 Somerset... 3 2 140 110.600 M. M. 1.... 5 4 218 231.556 Cvnthana... 6 5 323 223.545 Shelbyv lle... 4 7 278 283.364 Frankfort... 4 8 280 291.333 Carlsle... 4 11 218 358.267 V ersallcs... 3 9 261 386.250 La ncaster... 2 6 116 219.250 Stanford... 9 135 268. 100 Georgetown... 0 14 171 494.000 * * * * * Fnal Lttle Sx Conference Standngs Won Lost P ts. Lloyd... 9 1 427 Dayton... 8 2 411 Ludlow... 7 3 306 Dx:e Heghts... 3 7 251 H g hlands... 3 7 283 Bellevue... 0 10 247 O.P. 262 266 296 382 310 358 * * * * * Benham Wns Sxth Ttle n 12 Years Pet.. 900.800.700.300. 300.000 Followng are t he fnal Cumberland Valley Con erence standngs : Won Lost Pet. Benham... 12 0 1.000 Black Star... 11 0 1.000 Corbn... 11 1. 916 Lvnch... 12 2. 857 :tvddlcsboro... 11 5.687 Barboun llc... 9 5.642 Hall... 9 8. 529 Wallns... 5 5. 500 13e 11 County... 3 4.428 Harlan... 4 8. 333 Pnevlle... 4 11.266 Loyall... 3 13.187 Knox Central... 2 12.142 Lynn Camp... 1 11. 083 Evarts... 0 12. 000 * * * * Dstrct tournament survvors and the regonals n whch they wlj play are lsted below : F r st at Murray Dst.!-Hckman and Cayce. 2-Padueah a nd Barlow. 3-Symsona and Mayftcld. 4-Calvert Cty and Brmngham. Second a t M adsonvlle Dst. 5- Kuttawa and Farmersvlle. 6-Maro n a nd Tolu.?-Madsonvlle and Hanson. 8- H opknsvlle and Crofton. Thrd at Owen sboro Dst. 9-Morganfeld and Clay. 10-H enderson and Corydon. 11-0wensboro and Calhoun. 12-rvngto n and Ekron. Fourth at Letchfeld Dst. 13-:McHenry and Horse Branch. 14-Central Cty and H ughes-krkpatrck. 15-Sunfsh and Kyrack. 16-Carkson nad Yeman. Ffth at Glasgow Dst. 17-W oodburn a nd Bowlng Green. S-Lewsburg a nd Olmstead. 19-Glasgow a nd Petroleum. 20-Tompknsvllc and Galalel. Sxth at Glendale Dst. 21-Campbcllsvlle and Greensburg. 22-Horse Cave and Buffalo. 23-Vne Grove a nd Lynn Vale. 24-Sprng lcld and Bardstown. Seventh at "Shelbyvlle Dst. 25-Valley Staton and Anchorage. 26-St. Xaver and dupont Manual. 27-Shelbyvlle and Cropper. 28-Lawrenceburg and Kavanaugh. E gb.tb. a t Carrollton Dst. 29-Emnencc and Sulphur. 30-Frankfort and Elkhorn. 31-Carrollton and Owenton. 32-Crttendcn and Dry Rdge. Nnth at Dxe H ejghts Dst. 33-Hamlton and Walton. 34-Dxc Heghts and Erlanger. 35-Dayton and Hghlands (Fort T homa.s) 36-Covngton Holmes and Newport. Tenth at Maysvlle Dst 37-Cynthana and Connersvlle. 38-Brooksvlle and Mo unt Olvet. 39-Maysvlle a nd F lemngsburg. 40- P ars and Lttle Rock. Eleventh at Rchmond Dst. 41-0xford and Mclwav. 42- Burg n a nd 'vvlmo"e. 43- Unversty H g h and H enry Clay. 44-Mad$011 a nd Bobtown. Twelfth. at Sanford Dst. 45-Danvlle and Camp Dck Robnson. 40--Hghland a nd B rodhead. 47-Parmlcysvlle a nd. Somerset. 48-Hazel Green a nd East Bernstadt. Thrteenth a t Corbn Dst. 49-Tyner and Manchester. 50-Corbn and Lynn Camp. 51- Lone jack and Mddlesboro. 52- Benham and Cumberland. Fourteenth a t J ackson Dst. 53- Whtesburg and Flemng. 54-Hazard and Vcco. 55- Hndman a nd Breathtt County. 56-Beattyvlle and Powell County. Ffteenth at Pantsvlle Dst. 57-Vrge and Cumberland. 58-Garrett and Prestonburg. 59-nez and Lousa. 60-Frenchburg and Crockett. Sxteenth at M or ehead Dst. 61- \'Vnchcstcr and Mount Sterlng. 62-Breckenrdge and Sandy Hook. 63-0lve Hll and Grayson. 64-Ashland and Catlettsburg.
, Page T'en The KENTUCKY HGH SCHOOL ATHLETE PTactcal Santaton n Hgh School Athletcs By C. 0. JACKSON. U nve sty of llnos.mr. Prncpal, a nd Mr. Coach. do you rea lz.: that a contagous dsease. the common cold. s the g reatest sngle factor n causng absences rom school, and that much of t s pre, entable? t was found n a sllldy of the athletcs n 365 schools n ndana*. that 82% of the llness necesstatng absence from school for two or more days was due to colds. f you have ever lost one or more varsty players just before an mportant game, because of a bad ca5e of "snffles" you can apprecate how serous ths really s, a nd wll be nterested n any suggestons whch may poss bly help cut down ths appallng percentage. Patty, W. W. and Van H orn, 1'. ).. "Health o the Hgh School Athlete," J ou mal o Hc:tlth and Physcal Educaton, Vol. V. No. 10, December 1935, p. 26 27, 51 52. Last momh. you had an oportunty to check your :.chool wth the same crtera whch 5291 schools n the slate used to estmate the effcency o ther health practces n athletcs. n ths ssue. you can examne the statstcs, and sec just where your school actually rates wth many others. Certa1 data dd not lend tself readly to table form so materal on practces n santaton of the physcal plant s not nc.luded. T he table;;, n all but one case, represent actual practces n the hg h schools. T hs one table ndcates opnons concernng certan practces whch may or n1ay not be desrable. The f g ures n each case show the number of schools checkng each tem. tjackson. C. 0.. "Practcal Santaton." Hgh School Athlete, Vol. 9, No. 4. December 1936, p. 50 51. TABLE.-MEDCAL EXAMNATONS FOR VARSTY ATHLETES By School By Famly After Total Requred Optonal Annually Seasonally Doctor Doctor Jllness --- - 522 272 250 180 114 125 179 122 Slg htly more than ha lf the schools respondng, req ure a medcal exalllnaton before partcpaton n athletcs. am permsson of the parent s also necessary n the great majorty of cases. TABLE H.-PROTECTVE OR NUTRTVE FOODS FURKSHEO ATHLETES Total All Some Cod L"" Orange Mlk Hot J uce Chocolate - 66 16 50 27 24 9 44 Basketball Football 66 schools, or 13%, attempt to s upplement the det of ther varsty athletes, and eght of these do so n all sports. The majorty who follow ths practce, however, pay much more attenton to boys on the basketball team than to the others. TABLE.- TOWEL SERVCE FOR VARSTY ATHLETES Total All ::orts, F_o_:t_ b_a_h 1 _ Basketball 122 3 32 About a fourth of the schools, or 23%, furnsh ther athletes wth clean towels for each practce sesson. TABLE TV.-OPNON OF PRNCPALS CO:\C.CRNKG PRACTCES TN SANTATOK Permssble - Recommended. Players exchangng practce jerseys...... 11 3 21'fr 2. Player' exchangng sweat clotltng...-... 94 18% 2 3. P layers sharng a common water bot tle... 81 15% 2-1. Players sharng a common towel or sponge... 71 13% 2 5. Players sharng a common o range or lemon.... 6. Sldng wet towels across the floor to team..... 7. Players spttng behnd wall paddngs or n corners.... 8. Players spttng on playng floor..... 46 9% 2 25 5% 2 7 1% 2 4.5% 3 Three hundred and ffty-two. or 67% of the prncpals respondng. stated that all of the practces mentoned above were undesrable from the standpont of health. Two prncpals felt that other tems, such as sharng soap, and personal equpment (socks, supporters. and shoes) were also undesrable. \:Vhle t does not appear possble that anyone, partcularly a schoolman, could conce, ably recommend any of the above practces. nevertheless as the table shows, ths was true n several cases. t was apparent. howc, er, that n at least two of these nstances an error had been made n t he. markng. 11
for MARCH, 1939 Page Eleven TABLE V.-EPDEMCS AMONG VARSTY ATHLETES Total Bols Colds Sore Throat Athlete's Foot 185 56 53 26 89 One rather sgnfcant correlaton underles the fgures n the precedng table. Although some schools whch follow the best practces n athletcs dd have epdemcs, n nearly every nstance where the admnstrator ndcated t hat the u se of the common towel or t he common drnkng bottle were permssble. he also checked t he fact that one or more epdemcs had occurred on the team wthn the past two years! Dr. Patty says..... t s recommended that all pupls at the slg htest ndcaton of a cold, be confned to ther home~ untl the danger o[ the nfecton s passed." Ths s certanly desrable, but mght perhaps be dffcult to enforce. Any mprovement of the health and santary pra ctces n the conduct of a thletcs whch may play some part n reducng the waste of human tme and health must also be consdered. Surely we can no longer justfy g-j10rng a ccepted prncples o f health just because a boy ts out fo r athletcs! * * * you f lled out the check lst concernng deal practces n health and sa ntaton whch appeared u the December ssue, and so compared your school wth 529* ot hers n the state, a nd later studed the statstcs as presented n sununarzed form n the last ssue, you wll be nterested n specfc recommendatons for worthwhle goals of health n hgh school athletcs. Here are the most mportant ones, based on suggestons made by more than 100 admnstrators, and c natonally-known physcans : 1. E ducate the communty to an apprecaton of the goals n health sought by the local hgh school, and a real7.aton that achevng them depends materally on hackng the school board n ncreased a ppropratons for more effcent jantor servce, adequate facltes, and sutable personal equpment n athletcs. (lt must be recognzed, however, that even a s t he stuaton now stands n most schools, many of the mprovements named belo w are possble f the authortes consder them worthwhle.) 2. E ducate the jantor to an apprecaton of the mportance of hs part n mantanng healthful and sae surroundngs for the students, as well as a realzaton of the responsbltes ths mples. ( Daly cleanng o all Aoo1 s, mats, tolets, and urnals usng accepted cleanng agents should be consdered the mnmum.) 3. Educate the student body to better h ealth habts by precept and example, and partcularly by the development of a real, "lve" course n health educaton whch wll acheve the prmary objectve of nculcatng,.refers to a study, "Htalth and Santary rractce~ n Hgh School Athletcs," cond uc ted by the author n February, 1936. 30 qucstona:-es were sent out to accredted schools n the state. and 529, o r 2C'k were returned. A lmted number or mmeographed SUJUltt:tre$ Of the Study are 3\faJable for free dstrbuton. Any admnstrator, prncpal, or coach nterested n those atttudes and deals 1hat tend to brng about desrable habts. (Ths should be one of t he most worthwhle courses n the entre currculum.) 4. Provde safe, adequate, and healthful facltes n all parts of the athletc plant. (Ths mples smooth-fnshed, crackless Aoors, modern plumbng fxtures, proper ventlaton, and adequate lghtng.) 5. Provde a comprehensve medcal examnaton for all athletes by a competent physcan before seasonal partcpaton n athletcs, and after llness or njury. (Ultmately ths wll be done annually for all students.) 6. Elmnate all flthy, dangerous, and socally condemned practces such as the common use of clothng, drnkng utensls, and ba thng equpment, by provdng ndvdual sports outfts (adequately and fre quently cleaned) wall fountans, or ndvdual drnkng contaners (sterlzed prevous to use) towel servce (clean ndvdual towels at all tmes) sutable places for expectoraton (kept n santary condton) and lqud soap n the showers. 7. nclude defnte provson for certan nutrtve foods, as well as foods hgh n Vtamn C and D content, for t hose athletes who need t, and who do not receve t at home. (Many parents do ths for ther chldren as a matter of course.) The study on whch these recommendatons arc based showed defntely that n spte of ncreased attenton to publc health, and the many developments n medcal and santary knowledge, the average hgh school does not take the necessary precautons to mantan safe and healthful surroundngs for all of ts s tudents, partcularly n the gymnasa, s ho wers, and locker rooms. Lke wse, n the conduct of sports especally ( 1) medcal examnatons are not r equred of all partcpants, and (2) practces \.Vhch have been condemned for years as dangerous and lackng n socal approval are stll permtted. Ths fact s even more astoundng when the currcula of many of these same schools reveal courses desgned to buld attt udes and habts of good health! And fnally, "the a rrestng feature of the report" accordng to Doctor Jrka, 's that unhygenc and nsantary practces are permtted.... n spte of the opmton to ~he contrary among the admnstrators....! t Mr. Prncpal, and Mr. Coach, you have checked the practces pertanng to health and ~an taton n your school; s tuded the tables showng actual practces n ma ny schools and compared them wth your the development of hgh school nthletcs may secure a copy by sendng a reques t to the a uthor ~~ the U nversty o llnos, School of l'hysc:al Educaton. tjrka, Frank J. "'Theory and Practce." llnos Health )fes senger, 6 :9 p. 78,.\lay, 1936.
Page.Twelve The KENTUCKY Gl SCHOOL ATHLETE TABLE VL-SHOWNG ESTMATED BACTERAL COUNT ON COMMON TOWELS ---- Towel Team A...... 1 2 Team B... 1 2 T eam c............ 1 2 Bactera per cc Bacteral count estmate mnmum per towel 460,000 690,000,000 390.000 585.000,000 127,000 190,500,000 1,300,000 1,950,000,000 4,900,000 7,150,000,000 8,000,000 12,000,000,000 - - own stuaton; and now have read the lst of specfc recommendatons for mprovng Lhe s t uaton. f sports and a thletcs are to he educatonal and desrable, and conducted wth the hest nterests of the students at heart, here s a real challenge. Vlha t are you gong to do about t? * * * * HEALTH PRACTCES? "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make hm drnk," runs an old sayng. T he truth of ths statement w as all too graphcally brought out n the last State Basketball Tournament held at Champagn. The sxteen teams, leaders n the state as demonstrated by ther survval of a number of tournaments, a ll showed the e ffects o f splendd coachng, but practca lly all of them demonstrated most vvdly, a woeful lack of any effectve tranng n good health habts. The majorty of the teams stll used the common towel, n spte of the fact that such practces lack socal appw val and are also recognzed as potentally dangerous to the partcpants. T here was even less excuse than usual for ths because of the splendd facltes for ndvdual towel and drnkng servce behnd each basket, provded by the unversty.'tra ner, ' Ma!!t Bullock. Such practces smack of the "horse a nd buggy" era, wth ts promscuous spttng, the communty roller towel, the rusty old pal and dpper. and other symbols of the common dsregard for health m the free and easy conduct of human relatons. ] ust as an experment, D r. G.. vvallace, of t.h e Department of Bacterology of the U nversty, analyzed a number of these common towels. Each towel was placed n sterle water, and the towel agtated for several mnutes to get as many bactera n suspenson as possble. A count was then made to determne the number of bactera present. Table V g ves the results. f bactera secreted any notceable stan, magne what these towels, and the boys' faces would look lke at the end o f a game! nasmuch as most of these towels were thrown across the floor, that too, would undoubtedly exhbt many dscoloratons. Team C had the hghest bacteral count on ts towels because t used the same ones for a number of games : the coach was afrad "t mght hurt ther luck f they changed!'' N o plans had been made ahead of tme to conduct such a test, because t was assumed that a ll partcpants would use the facltes behnd the baskets, and consequently no sldes had been prepared so that the predomnant forms of bactera p resent mght be solated. However, such an experment was carred on after a Conference game, usng some of the towels whch the vstng team shared n the same promscuous manner. E g ht dfferent forms of bactera were solated, and of that n umber, fve were the fom1s usually found n nose and 'throat n fectons, and respratory dseases! lt s hghly probable that among the bllons found on the towels descrbed n the table there were some whch belonged to these dangerous groups. l t may be tr ue that many of the boys partcpatng n such practces as those mentoned, develop a form of resstance whch may e ven approach mmunty, hut no one knows when the vtalty o f the youngster may fall below the danger lne, and he s at once agan susceptble. f some form of resstance dd not exst, t s qute lkely that the majorty of our young athletes would never lve to grow up, consderng the p1 esent lack of a ttenton to santa ton n sport. H owever, the fallacy of relyng on any hope of mmunty s only too appa1 ent, as every coach and prncpal can reca ll tmes when epdemcs o colds, sore throat, mumps, mpetgo, or even less COJlllllon but equally contagous dseases, have swept through the squad wth dsastrous results. n a day when we pont wth prde to our better schools wth ther fne teachers and mproved currcula educatng for lfe, we must face the fact that t he frst cardnal prncple of educaton, that of health, s usually gnored n the f eld of athletcs. sn't t hgh tme that we do somethng about t? ( Reprnted from the llnos Hgh School Athlete, Vol. 9, No.4, December 1936; Vol. 9, No. S, January February 1937; V ol. 9, No. 6, M arch 1937 ; and V ol. 9, No. 8, May 1937.)
Dg t Out.. Agan! The bg reason that Major-General Goethals succeeded n hs tremendous task of completng the Panama Canal was because he was an n sprng leader of men. He succeeded where others fa led because he could look despar n the eye wthou t blnkng. One day n January 1913 Goethals stood at the top of the cut at Cucaracha and looked upon a scene of dsaster. Another bg slde had runed the work of many months... the huge dtch was choked. F rantc wth despar Goethals' chef ad asked n a shakng,-oce, "'What wll we do now? '' Lghtng a cgarette wth a steady hand and tossng the match away Goethals repled, "Hell, dg t out agan!" Have your dreams been bured by falure? Dg them out agan! Are your plans choked by the sands of despar? Dg them ou t agan! Dggng out the Cucaracha cut looked lke an mpossble task but nspred by Goethals the men set to work and completed the task of removng 2,500,000 cubc yards of drt and rocks! When the landsldes of msfortune block our progress the only sensble thng to do s to begn dggng agan. Remember Goethals' dynamc words, "Hell. dg t out agan!" -Fr 0111 THE JAQUA W AY.
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