Floyd Wilson expects the recently adopted basketball rules changes to improve the game next year, and be helped by at least one of the changes. "The 12-foot lane should help equalize the advantage now held by the very big player. It will give Harvard a chance in a let of games we would otherwise have been sure to lose," he said yesterday.

The Basketball rules committee last week widened the foul lane from six to twelve feet and changed the foul shot rule so that the "one and one" rule, which gives a player an extra shot if he makes his first free throw, will apply for the entire 40 minute. Fouls in the last three minutes have been penalized with two foul shots during the past the past two seasons.

The widened lane will mean that players on defense will have to stay out of a larger area around the basket to avoid losing the ball for a "three-second" violation.

Because teams will have less worry about the scoring of a very tall man on offense, Wilson predicted that many teams would use zone defenses next season. For this reason, he added, "The game will, in general, be slowed down and scores will be lower."

He also though that the new foul rule would "vice the team behind in the last few minutes a chance of winning. The game will still be in doubt in the last few minutes, whereas this season a late lead was almost always safe."

At Yale, coach Howard Hobson, who originally proposed the wider lane ten years ago, said, "I expect a faster game next year from the rule change." He also approved of the uniformity given to the game by playing "one and one" throughout the contest.

Cappy Cappon, coach of Princeton's Ivy League championship team, agreed with Wilson that there will be more zone defense played next year, but he said "I don't think the game will be affected very much." He expected the wider lane to lessen the tall man's rebounding advantage of the offensive backboards, but to increase his edge off the defensive boards.

Lou Rossinl, coach of the Columbia quintet that bowed to the Tigers in the Ivy League final, said, "I think that the knew rule will encourage zone defenses at first, but coaches will find that it won't be too great an advantage, and by mid-season many will switch their teams back to man-for-man."