MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE
OF AGRICULTURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE
EAST LANSING

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION September 2, 1939

Mr. Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical Education & Recreation
Varsity Basketball Coach

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas ;

Dear Phog:

I greatly appreciated your correspondence of August 14
and I am answering just in case things work out so that we might
be able to play you en route. At the present writing we have
a temporary date for December 20, but I do not know whether it
will work out. This game was with Brigham Young in Utah. We
are playing Creighton on December 18 and would have made a nice
jump as we are playing California in Berkeley on the 22nd. On
the way back we have a tentative game with Colorado on the 26th
or 27th. This would leave us a possible date in Lawrence. I
appreciate the kind of crowd you would have at this time and would
be glad to take whatever guarantee you feel you could make, should
there be an opening.

As mentioned before we would be very much interested in
having you olay at our place a year following.

We are building a new field house and gymnasium which
will seat nine or ten thousand people this year and are holding a
dedication game here February 10. The University of Michigan was
scheduled to play this game, but due to the Western Conference
set-up this year we are having to schedule another team for that
date. I have little hope that you would be able to play on
February 10 of this year, but just in case you could, I should
be glad to have you help us pull off the lid.

Should there be a possibility of a game in Lawrence this
year on December 27 or 28, I should be glad to hear from you later.

Very truly yours,

Ver

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B. F, Van Alstyne
Coach of Basketball

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