Fun With Behind The Backboard …

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Also, and I'm embarrassed to say this, several IAABO members who commented just don't know the rule.

Did any of them post a long, rambling, off-topic (or only tangentially related) essay on the history of the backboard?

That would be more embarrassing

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Did any of them post a long, rambling, off-topic (or only tangentially related) essay on the history of the backboard?

Thanks for the idea:

(Wilt) Chamberlain is also credited with a rule change regarding inbounding the ball by front court inbounders standing behind the endline underneath their basket. His (Kansas) teammates would routinely inbound the ball by lobbing the ball over the backboard where Chamberlain would catch the lob pass and dunk the ball into the basket for an easy score. In 1956, the NCAA, followed by the NFHS in 1957, ruled that the ball is out of bounds when it passes over a rectangular backboard (in either direction).