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i BASKETBALL RULES CHANGEDRecent Revision Forbids “Dribbling” of the Sphere and EliminatesTricky Throws.1 Deciding that several changes were necessary in the code of basketball to make the intercollegiate rules elastic enough to permit a more interesting game, the committee has made about a dozen changes.The practice of “dribbling up to the basket and taking a step to shoot for a basket is now forbidden under the new rules. Provision is made for the contestant catching the ball on the run. It will then be up to the referee to use his judgment and give the player a chance to slow up.To avoid the scheme of a tricky player to deliberately throw the ball against a wall so that it will carom back to him or one of his team mates, the new rales makes the ball “dead” when is it thrown. The new rules permit a glass background for the baskets as in the National A. A. U. rules. Merely touching the line makes the ball “out of bounds so there no longer will be a dispute about the player’s foot or any part of his person being across . the line. The makers of official basketball will have to change their machinery a little, as under the new : rules the weight must be from 24 tc ' 23 ounces, whereas, under the old rules they were to weigh from 18 tc 20 ounces.j The referee may call fouls on all the players while the umpire may call fouls on only the eight who are out oi i the scrimmage for the ball. This it intended to reduce the possibility ol players other than those struggling foi ; the ball to commit a foul.
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Bismarck Daily Tribune
Bismarck, North Dakota, US
Sun, Sep 26, 1909
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