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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1§3«0framedBasketball facilities in Xenia Central’s proposed nlt; physical education building will be just about the finest any high school Coach Tommy Blackburn has ever seen 'ind he has seen plenty of school gymnasiums within the Iasifew month*.Accompanied by school board members and other officials at various times, the Buccaneer mentor inspected many field house-type buildings, both in Ohio and Indiana, the cradle” of basketball, before plans were drawn for the gym-nasium-auditorium structure here.Xenia's new building will embody many of tbe beat feature* of vimllar structures elsewhere and will, to some extent, be patterned ttfter Piqua High School s modern field house.But whereas the Pique structure accommodates only 800 people, ihe Xenia field house will *eat 1,800 spectators All will obtain a clear view of the playing floor, by reason of a bowl-effect design for theseating arrangement,1 he basketball floor will be der the baskets at each end of the eighty feet In length and fifty feet' floor, tbe hoops will be droppedJn width, with the baskets seventy- doWT1 from celling.7 .P-t The ^hho.rd,atom* applied for the 1938 state which are popular In Indiana baa* scholastic tournament at the fair- kethall circles. Although the ballgrounds coliseum In Columbus, does not take quite so much “Eng-providlng ample room for players Hsu/' the thick glass has the ad-,to ™an*urm'- I vantage of being transparent which^ The dimensions of the court in will be Just dandy with spectators. .. Krm ^ g0ntg«isixtyIn this connection, the RuccanIng you an Jflea of what the new eer mentor said he plans to take floor will bo like. advantage of a new optional ruleIn fact, the floor will be so large In basketball which permits a four-that two separate courts will be foot clearance between the has-lined off, running crosswise, and kets and the out-of-bounds lines atprobably will be In simultaneous each end of the floor The formerIntramural __________will be as long as the presentachool gym floor, snd wider.• • •To provide greater clearance tin*The additional two feet will, Tommy explains, eliminate a high percentage of out-of-bounds plays under the baskets.
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Sat, Oct 01, 1938
Page 7
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