History Question

[so cal lurker]

Originally Posted by paulsonj72

Here is a link to the playing rules history of college basketball

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_bask...2015/Rules.pdf.

And for a long time the NCAA and the National Federation used the same rule set(with minor changes). IIRC this ended in the late 1970's. For me the most interesting rule was the origin of the bonus or 1-and-1 free throw in 1952. In that case you only got the 2nd free throw if you MISSED the 1st. Coaches (both high school and college) hated that rule and it lasted only 2 years.

Interesting. I didn't know that - I wonder if it was the parent of the old NBA2 to make 1 and 3 to make 2 bonus awards.