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September 30, 1941

Dr. Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical gducation
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen,
I ex writing you about a boy who is enrolled here at the University.

He came in yesterday and told us that he head enrolled at TePole
last year &nd that he has played in several freshmen games. That,
of course, makes him ineligible to play in our conference. We have
a ruling here in our conference that if a boy has matrioulated in
any other institution and has participated in one game he is ineli-
gible to participate in a Southeastern Conference school.

I have followed this boy with a great deal of interest and picked
him up in an N.Y.A. 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 attenting school whatever.
Since we have scholarships here in basketball we thought enough

of his ability to offer him a freshman scholarship. He has unusual
ability and I felt he would make us an outstanding center, He has
played a lot of ball and he is « 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 te his —
studies. .

Is there any way that you could use him at all? I am intewested 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 good. Naturally, if this boy were eligible to play
here I would have kept him. I would appreciate hearing from you

as he would be interested in enrolling there the second semester. I

understand your register has closed for the first semester.

Sincerely yours,