(copy) October 4, 1941

Lt. Col. W.H. Browne, QMUC
110th QM Regiment

Camp Robinson, Arkansas
A.P.0. 35

Dear Brownie,

Your very lengthy epistle addressed to Frederick Ware, a carbon

copy of which has been sent to me, is hereby acknowledged. I also
enjoyed the postscrip, "A copy has been sent to the Doctor in his lair
at K.U." Iwas greatly interested in your activities and enjoyed the
description of your environment in Mansfield, La., which you have
given Fred Ware, our mutual friend. However, I feel that I should come
to the point and reply to your real reason for writing the message to
Fred.

i have tried to analyse carefully your arguments that you present

in your letter to Pred. First, I might say to you that I have spoken.
on two occasions to football men wherein the newspapers have seen fit
te give perhaps undue publicity. Last fall I spoke to the all-star
Kansas City, Kansas, high school football men where Rotary was their
host. This fail I spoke before the William Jewell College football
team and three hundred students at a “football kick-off" dinner rally.
I spoke to these boys directly and all the remarks that were made were.
prompted by a desire to present the true picture of “big time" football
as it is now being conducted in a great many of our American colleges,

I coached football, Brownie, perhaps before you played it, and I
believe I know the strong and the weak points of the game as I have
officiated and followed it closely ever since. The game as a morale
builder and as a builder of men has no equal. Cetainly I am not ex-
cepting basketball in this inclusion, But many sports at one time can
be fine, and then they can become so distorted that they can be utterly
ruined and useless instead of being a morale builder they can become

@ morale destroyer.

In my mind's eye I ran over a great mummber of former coaches and
present coaches, and have asked this question: Are these coaches' sons
playing football? I thought of Chet Brewer, who has a son at the Unive
ersity of Missouri, Henry Schulte, Bernie Bierman, Dana Bible, Major
Jones, Harold Browne, "Phog" Allen, Bill Hargiss, and a great host of
others. Now, I realize that neither your son nor Dana Bible's son are
old enough to be in a university, but I will watch with a great deal
of interest and see how many sons of coaches will play football in
college.