(COPY) October 10, 1941

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

A.P 0+ 55

Camp Robinson, Arkansas

Dear Brownie,

I have a real good joke on myself and I want to pass it
on to you. Your letter arrived Saturday morning just
prior to the Kansas-Washington football game. I hurriedly
scanned over the first part of your letter and paid very
1ittlé attention to the first three paragraphs. Then I
read your fourth paragraph which starts out - "Now for the
real reason this message is written".

By overlooking the third paragraph and not answering it I
committed the greatest blunder of all my corresponding ex-
perience. In that paragraph you presented the very same
argument that I had presented to the students at William

Jewell - that these boys played football for the sheer fun

of tt, and that they do not have to have commercialized football
to play for the fun of it. And when it is commercialized the
bad features are added without the good onese

If I ever needed a friend to argue my point, you certainly
did it most emphatically and without any rebuttal. So,
Brownie, read your own paragraph again and see if that isn't
right in line with my argument, You said, "They are their
own officials, and the ball changes side with very little
other then a kidding dissent". Therefore, the college presidents
of America will see the educational value of play, and by
adjustments upon the state and by the students they will
develop an intramural system which will satisfy the play in=
stinets of the students without the big time stuff that is
not a part of the educational institutions.

Brownie, I surely do like your letter.

Very sincerely yours,

- Director of Physical Education and Recreation
FCA/pg Varsity Basketball Coach