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September 30, 1941

Dr. Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

 

Dear Dr. Allen:
I am writing you about a boy who is enrolled here at the University.

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He came in yesterday and tol¥ us that he had enrolled at a
last year and has played in several freshmen games. That, of q
course, makes him ineligible to play in our conference. We have a
ruling here in our conference that if a boy has matriculated in any
other institution and has participated in one game he is ineligible
to participate in a Conference szhool.

 

I have followed this boy with a great deal of interest and picked

him up in an N.Y.A. camp in Tennessee. He is six feet, five inches

tall end weighs 188 pounds stripped. a comes from a family that is

very poor and he has no means of attenting school whatever. Since

we have scholarships here in basketball we thought enough of his
ability to offer him a freshman scholarship. He has unusual ability 4
and I felt he would make us an outstanding center. He has played a
lot of ball and he is a boy of unusually fine habits. He passed our
entrance examinations here in good shape and I do not believe that
he would ever give you any trouble in regard to his studies.

Is there any way that you could use him at all? I am interested in
sending him to you as he requested me to write this letter and I also
feel that I would like to send you someone semetime that might.do you
some good. Naturally, if this boy were eligible to play here I would
have kept him. I would appreciate hearing from you as he would be
interested in enrolling there the second semester. I understand your
register has closed for the first semester.

Sincerely yours,