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Show HUDDLF SYSTEM IS EASY TO USE I . ! Coach Got Novel Idea From Sports Scribe. A sports reporter from a Chicago newspaper was responsible for the introduction in-troduction of the so-called huddle system sys-tem in basket ball being used successfully suc-cessfully by Coach Maury Kent at Northwestern university this season. The system, which has attracted considerable attention among authorities author-ities of the game and which Is quite likely to be adopted widely by coaches, was brought into existence by a reporter re-porter who saw the novelty of such a method. Coach Kent had been using the huddle for the past several years ln practice games between the first and second teams where both sides used the same plays and were familiar with the hand signals. The sports scribe watched the Purple Pur-ple cagers in practice one afternoon just before the opening of the present pres-ent season and saw the huddle being used by the opposing fives. He asked the purple mentor whether he planned to use the system in the regular games. "Sure! Why not?" said Kent, who later declared that be hadn't given the idea any thought, but when it was suggested by the reporter he saw no reason why it wouldn't work. The system calls for no radical departure de-parture in the playing of the game. Yet it gives the team employing It a simple method of calling its plays, both on the offense nnd defense. During Dur-ing its brief existence at Northwestern the huddle has proved its value and will be continued, according to Coach Kent, who originated It. "We fir;d that the huddle has come up to expectations," declared Coach Kent. "It Is easy to use and is more accurate than the former method of hand signaling. Contrary to popular belief It functions eren when the opposing op-posing team gets the tip-off. It enables en-ables a team to vary Its defense more rapidly and more surely." j |