September 30, 1941

Dre Forrest Ce Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dre allen:
I am writing you about a boy who is enrolled here at the University.

He came in yesterday and told us that he had enrolled at

last year end has played in several freshman gamese That, of course,
makes him ineligible to play in our conference. We have a ruling
here in our: conference that if a boy has matriculated in any other
institution and has participated in one game he is ineligible to
participate in a Conference school.

I have followed this boy with a great deal of interest and picked
him up in an NYA camp in Tennessee. He is six feet, five inches
tall and weighs 188 pounds stripped. He comes from a family that is
very poor and he has no means of attending school whatever. Since
we have scholarships here in basketball we thopghb enough of his
ability to offer him a freshman scholarship. He has unusual ability
end I felt he would make us an outstanding center. He has played a
lot of ball and he is a boy of unusually fine habits. He passed our
entrance examinations here in good shape and I do not believe that
he would ever give you any trouble in regard to his studies.

Is there any way that you could use him at al11# Iam interested in
sending him to you as he requested me to write this letter and I also
feel that I would like to send you someone sometime that might do you
some goode Naturally, if this boy were eligible to play here I would
have kept hime I would appreciate hearing from you as he would be
interested in enrolling there the second semester. I understand

your register is closed for the first semester. -

Sincerely yours,

Basketball ‘Coache