The 24-second shot clock ended stalling tactics that were threatening the National Basketball Association and helped save the league. It was first used in an NBA scrimmage organized by Danny Biasone on August 10, 1954 at Blodgett Vocational High School in Syracuse. In the first season with the clock, league scoring rose by 13.6 points per game. Coach Howard Hobson of Oregon and Yale is credited with the original idea, and Emil Barboni and Leo Ferris were among those who helped Biasone bring the clock to fruition in Syracuse. Ferris and Biasone devised the formula for the shot clock, selecting 24 by dividing 2,880, the number of seconds in a 48-minute game, by 120, the average number of shots in a game. Because of the vision and persistence of Biasone, president and founder of the Syracuse Nationals, fellow NBA owners embraced the shot clock, which is now used in some form on almost every level of the game. The original shot clock is at LeMoyne College and is 25% smaller in size with one clock face.