NED ERISH

NINE ROCKEFELLER PLAZA
NEW YORK CITY

May 29,1940

Dr.Forrest C.Allen

Director of Physical iducation
University of sansas

Lawrence, kan.

Dear Phog,

I got your note and agree with you that td Kelleher
has been misinformed or else he probably got the dimensions of
his own court at Fordham confused with the Garden court. The
Garden court is 82 feet between baskets, with two foot extenddénoms
on each end or 86 feet overall playing length.

Fordham has a 90 foot court, 2 foot extensions, but is
the only court in New York City that is over 78 feet between
baskets. ,

I quite agree with you that the four foot extension
makes for a better game. The local college coaches as a body
Would also agree with you. However since only Fordham of the
seven schools which play their major games on the Garden court
have any room to put in the four foot extension on their own
floors they decided that it would not be advisable to try and
practice and play the majority of their’.games under one
set of conditions and change radically for their major games.
As it is all the teams which use the tarden as their home court
play on courts which are lone“by from four to fifteen feet than
their ow courts.

Tfrust that this will not prove any handicap to either
your team or id Kellehergs and that the contest will be
@ Sood onee

sincerely yours,