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Title: Spalding's official collegiate basket ball guide
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fisher, Harry A., (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Basketball
Publisher: New York, The American sports publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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issouri Valley have on the whole doneefficient work and it is a noticeable fact that the man who rulesstrictly and impartially, makes the best official and has therespect of both teams. It would be a great help to the officialscommittee if the managers and coaches would give informationabout the men who have worked for them. The style of play this season in the Missouri Valley was notuniform, one or possibly two teams playing a close defensivegame while others played the open fast game. Kansas playedthe open shifty game with enough team work to keep a fastpace at all times. Baker plays the same type of game and thebest exhibition of basket ball in the valley was between thesetwo teams. College spirit was shown in abundance, yet thegame was remarkably clean and free from objectionable features.It was an exhibition of basket ball that left every one, playerand spectator, an admirer of the game and of the abilities ofthe players. Washington started out to play a fast clean game, but by a
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SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 79 misunderstanding about one of the rules her game for a timewas rough and the uncertainty destroyed her chances for a goodrecord. Towards the close of the season she was playing a fastgame, at times bordering on the reckless. The sacrifice ofplayers to the spectacular is never of lasting benefit and alwaysreacts against the game. Missouri started out with the style of game which considersthe defense directed against the player. This led to consider-able feeling both among the players and on the part of theaudience, who wish to see all treated with due respect to theirrights. The object of basket ball is to exhibit the ability ofthe player to handle the ball, rather than to show wrestHngability, or the ability to block an opponent and prevent hisscoring. Nebraska played a strong aggressive game, but she vas inthe transition period from the close blocking game to the openeffective game and her scoring was handicapped by this fact.The chief difficulty seemed

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