Medical evidence has begun to pile basketball rules which gave the game its greatest box office boost in history.
While coaches from coast to coast discussed the controversial rule eliminating the centre jump after field goals, Dr. Marcus Hobart of Northwestern University disclosed he had completed experiments purporting to show the new game stimulated heart action of the players to a dangerous it normal heart dear of 60 to 90 had increased alarmingly, in one case to 144."
Too Fast for"Most Boys "I'm no heart specialist, but even these sketchy experiments indicate the game is too fast for most boys," he said, Chief defender of the new code was Ward (Piggy) Lambert Purdue's "Wild Fox," who has been coaching the fast break in high schools and Colleges for the past 25 years. Lambert is recognized as the nation's foremost teacher of the frewagon attack.
"It's only a matter of conditioning," Lambert countered. "We bring our boys up in the fast break down in this country and keep them trained to it year after year. Some boys can stand more than others. Ours can stand it easily, "Ive questioned my players after each hard game and they all admit they feel no difference. One, our centre, says he was'far more tired when he had to jump after each basket was scored."
Hobart's findings however, stirred critics who have said from the start that under the present code, speed ənd stamina count far more than basketball skill.
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