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Show BASKETBALL SPRING PRACTICE Not to be outdone by football, basketball too has come to need a spring drill. At Utah this is the first time that the spring hoop training has been tried, but judging from the enthusiasm for the sport as was shown by the large number of men who turned out for instruction, and from the benefits as listed by Coach Vadal Peterson, spring basketball bids to hold its place along with spring football year after year. Many rule changes were demonstrated in the course, especially on the stalling rule which is meant to speed up the game and eliminate slow manipulation of the ball out of scoring territory. This training period, as opposed to the hoop drill early in the fall, was open only to players, varsity men, and aspirants for first team hoop play. Last fall Coach Peterson conducted a course for high school coaches in connection with Coach Ike Armstrong's football school. From this, it is evident diat basketball might be said to have a future as something other than strictly a winter sport. Expansion in the sport can only come about by teaching the latest and best in basketball technique, and that is essentially at what the extra course aims. Varsity squad limbers up on gym floor. Page Two Hundred Fourteen |