IOWA STATE COLLEGE

OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS
AMES, IOWA

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