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October 24, 1939

Dr. Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lewrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

We were under the impression that you had the game with
Michigan State definitely scheduled for December 28th, and
held up writing Mri Van Alstyne until we sot the rest of the
tournament set up and were planning on trying to get him to
stay the whole three days.

However, from the tone of his letter to you, I believe
he would have accepted the $800.00 guarantee with the Oregon
school. I am sorry there was a misunderstanding on this.

I have a letter from Colorado State wondering about the
tournament and believe we could get them. What would be your
reaction in getting Colorado State for the tournament? They
will probably play under the same conditions as Michigan
State or cheaper.

Let me hear from you.

Sincerely yours,

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Dee Errickson

Basketball Coach

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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

October 14, 1959

Mre Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical Education and Recreation
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear "Phog"™:

Our athletic council held their monthly
meeting yesterday and I presented my tentative
basketball schedule to them showing two options
on our Christmas trip one of which was to return
by the southern route playing Colorado, Kansas,
etce and the other showing two games in Oregon which
carried a $800.00 guarantee. The council decided
that they would play the Oregon games, inasmuch as
we are only allowed eighteen games and to play
additional numbers would require special faculty
action. I believe that we could have gotten this
action but we were a little hazie on what arrange-
ments would be made for contests on December 29
and 350 following the game between Kansas and Michigan
State. Neither Mr. Kemper of the Topeka Daily Capital
nor Mr. Holm wrote me as you suggested they would and
consequently it seems that all our work has been in
vain relative to getting together.

I surely do appreciate your fine cooperation
in helping you work out a trip and you can count on
me going to the limit for you at any time that you
might be taking a trip through this section.

Very sah Peete,

Ben F. Van si koes a
Coach of Basketball

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December 26, 1939¢

Mre Ee Ae Thomas, Commissioner, |

Kensas High School Activities Association,
National Reserve Building,

Topelm, Kansase

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December 23, 1939

Dr. Forrest C. Allen,

Director of Physical Education,
University of Kansas,

Lawrence, Kansase

Dear Doctor Allen:

I received your letter in rerard to the basketball clinic to be held Saturday,
December 29.

It was my thought to devote the morning session to team demonstrations and then use
most of the afternoon for an officials and rules clinic. I don't know just what time
Saturday morning we should start but since most of the high school coaches and officials
will come in from out of town that morning I presume we cannot do a great deal before
ten o'clock. I think, however, we'll advertise it for 9:30. It will not be necessary
to close the morning session ‘ust at twelve o! clock, however, because the afternoon
session can start as late as 2:30 and give us plenty of time.

I do not think we ought to use too many teams and coaches because they will take a lot
of time and spread the information out pretty thinly. I -have asked Paul Kutnink of
Emporia State to participate and he has ae reed. I thought that if we could get

Bill Monypeny of Southwestern to use some of his boys and show a few things that they
would like to emphasize it would not be necessary to invite others. This will rive you
more time for your demonstrations and discussions and we would like to have you serve
as a general critic for the entire demonstration program.

Kutnink uses the razzle-dazzle basketball and their defense works all over the floor.
Some of our high school coaches are trvins to use this and I thoucht it: micht be well
for him to _ a little time to discuss the fundamental features of his system. I'l]
write to Bill Monypeny and ask him to have something ready. When the tournament opens
we may have an opp ortunity to discuss a few of the features and outline the program
more definitely.

I'll get out some publicity on the clinic and also send personal notices to officials
and coaches. Anything you have in mind that you think will be beneficial that can be
taken care of in the short time that we shall. have will be very satisfactory with us.
I realize that a full course in besketball cannot be given in a few hours and so I

think it will be best if we pick out a few important features and dwell on them. If
similer clinics are held in the future we can feature other items then

E. R. STEVENS, PRESIDENT
INDEPENDENCE

J.R. Jones. vicepresinenr With best wishes for the holiday season, I am
SUBLETTE
E. A. FUNK, TREASURER °
ARKANSAS CITY Very cordial ly yours,

D. E. WOLGAST
MARYSVILLE

   

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SENECA

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Very sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education and Recreation,

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University of Kansase

Dear Chancellor Malotts

It is seldem necessary for a subordinate in the athletic de-
partment to write to members of his ow Athletic Board concerning an
athletic situation, but I have been blamed for scheduling twenty
gemes apparently without permission, and further have been charged

My procedure with Director Henry has been always to sulmit
every gene to him prior to our scheduling it and then when this was
agreed upon Mr. Henry signed the contracts as Director of Athleticse
Im no ease has there been an exceptions

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regard to the Washburn Tournament, Mre Gene Kemper first
interviewed ire Henrys Mre Henry in turn discussed the matter with me.
Since Mre Kemper has never been accused of being ardently in love
with me, I suggested to Mr. Henry that Mr. Kemper come to the front
door and discuss the matter with me first. lire Henry wrote Mr. Kemper
and Mr. Kemper took the mtter up with me. I continued to discuss this
| point that if Mr. Kemper promoted the
tournament for the Topeka Capital that it would not conform to Big Six
Conference rules, but that if Washburn College promoted the tournament
under their ow auspices and without Mr. Kemper's guidance, there was |
nothing in the rules to prevent it. I have a letter in my file from
Mr. Kemper stating that he had withdraw any interest from the tourma-
. as @ newspaper mane ire Kemper made
this statement to me orally a mumber of times, and I honestly believe
that this is the truth, Theat is why I agreed to enter the tournament

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preted as precedent when past performences have talen place.

‘twill appreciate your Iindly considerations
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Director of Physical Eduontion and Recreation, —

 
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Mate Be Ace Thomas, Secretary,
Topela, FAnsase

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I notice by the mornine papers that K. U. has been granted
permission by the Big Six Conference to participate in

the tournament here. I am sure this will insure the
tournament of beine a rrand success. |

I eam sorry that there was a misunderstanding in regard to
the clinic. I certainly would not want it to look as

if we were butting into the picture but I did not know
that you had any correspondence with Kemper or Errickson
prior to our meeting in Lawrence.

I have just talked to Dee end he prefers that we run
the clinic under the auspices of the state high school
activities association. This merely means that we
shall be responsible to you for the fee for your work |
in the clinic. I am happy to do this and I am sure the
services to the hich schools of the state will be well
worth while. I'll appreciate it if you will outline a
program for the Saturday morning session at which time
we agreed there should be the team demonstrations.

With best wishes for the holiday season, I am

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December 4, 1939

Des Fs Cs Allen,

Director of Physical Education,
University of Kansas,

Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Doc:-

I shall appreciate it if you can send me your suggested outline of the
program for the basketball clinic to be held at the time of the tourna-
ment at Washburn as soon as possible, and if you have any other ideas
in addition to those we discussed et your office recently I shall be
glad to have you send them along,

This clinic program is in the process of development, as far as our asso-
ciation is concerned. Last year our high school coaches! association voted
to get behind a clinic program in various sports and we have been working
with them. Recently they have become associated with us through their ad-
visory committee and we have received many offers from colleges to stage
clinics. We have been considering the location of a number of these events
this fall and, since K. U. put on one last year, our first thought was to
co-operate with you in every way possible. You stated at our recent meeting
that you had not planned one for this year. I understand that these have to
be worked out on Saturdays in order for the high school coaches to attend
and your early season schedule, I believe, does not include any Saturday
games. I thought then that perhaps you would wish to co-operate with us in
a clinic program at the time of the basketball tournament here.

I don't think we should demand too much in time and energy from the teams
participating in the tournament, but perhaps some of the coaches can use

their reserve players in the demonstrations, I believe you suggested demon-
strations of the zone defense and how to penetrate that defense as suitable
and desirable features of the program. No doubt there will be teams here

with various types of offense and defense and it would be advisable to include
the fast break, man-to-man defense, and various types of individual maneuvers.
I'll be happy to receive your recommendations just as soon as convenient.

Since most of the high school coaches will no doubt be unable to attend more than
one day, I thought perhaps it would be best to confine the demonstrations by

the teams to Saturday morning and then hold a state-wide officials and rules

meeting and clinic in the afternoon. If the college and university men feel that

they would like to participate in both sessions we would certainly appreciate

their help. As far as I am concerned, I do not wish to impose upon anyone but
erhaps for the good of the game of basketball the coaches and players will not

E. R. STEVENS, ReTaAk

INDEPENDENCE feel that it is an imposition. It will give the college coaches an oppors
J. R. Jones. vicenarePent tunity to show their methods and systems to the high school coaches.
ei. an en aes Do yeuthink it would be advisable to invite more than four of:the college
ee teams to participate in the demonstrations? I don't believe we'll have

CLIFFORD D. DEAN

RUSSELL
D. E. WOLGAST

MARYSVILLE

J. E. BOWERS
SENECA

time for more and I'll appreciate it if you can outline something on
that basis. I'm sorry I'll miss your opening game tomorrow night but

I'll be on the road most of this week,
Cordially yours,
HUGO Tt. WEDELL

JUSTICE

December 9, 19359.

Forrest C.Allen,
o/o FE. U.
Lawrence,Kansas.

Dear "Pfog"s

I appreciated receiving your basketball

schedule and I am distributing the extra
schedules to some of the athletic-minded
people in the State House,

I am not fully advised from the newspaper
account in this morning's papers, just why
you should not be permitted to participate
in the Washburn College Tournament on the
dates of December 28, 29 and 30. I trust
the matter will be arranged so that you can
participate in the tournament on those
dates.

Cordially yours,
W:H wf
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OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS
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VETERINARY PHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY December 11 3 1939

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, 4ansas

Dear Dre Allen:

The Big Six faculty representatives at our recent meeting in Kansas
City instructed me to acknowledge your letter tot hem regarding a twenty game
basketball allowance.

Your letter would seem to indicate a belief that the Big Six printed
Rules allow twenty basketball games and that the faculty representatives at the
December, 1938 meeting, without consultation with the Directors, reduced the
number of gemes to eighteen. You are definitely in error if such is your belief.
It has only been by special action of the faculty representatives each year that
twenty games have been allowed in the past. The following is taken from the
minutes of the meeting of the faculty representatives as of December 3, 1938.

"Twenty Basketball and Baseball Games.

A motion was made by Shirky, seconded by Jones “that twenty basket-
ball and baseball games be approved for the 1938-39 season, the additional two
games in each case to be played during vacation time, and that it be understood
that for the future there will be a return to the regular eighteen game schedule
as provided by the Conference rules." Motion carried."

When Kansas University scheduled twenty games for this season, 1939=
40, it was in direct violation of the printed Rules. No other Conference school
scheduled more than eighteen games.

When it was reported that Kansas had already scheduled twenty games,
Dre Davis assumed the blame for what he said was his failure to advise the
responsible members of the athletic staff that twenty games would not be allowed
for 1939-40. In order to relieve Kansas of possible embarrassment in the situa-
tion, the faculty representatives then agreed to approve twenty games for this
yeare

It then came to us that Kansas was entered in a basketball tournament
to be held in Topeka. This being against the Rules, it was suggested by the
Directors that if Kansas dropped from the tournament, the eighteen rule limit
would not be exceeded. However, in deference to Dr. Davis and to avoid any
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embarrassment to Kansas, in view of what appeared to be a misunderstanding of
the rules, the faculty representatives approved twenty-basketball games for
1939-40, the two extra games to be played during vacation time.

   
 

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