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DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ® SWARTHMORE, PA.

Assistant Director
Wuuss J. Srerson

March 12, 1946

Dear Dr. Allen:

I have been wanting to write you for quite
some time but you well know how ones correspondence
can usually be put off to another day. My reading
of your winning the Big Six Championship made me
make a date with myself to sit down and get off a
note to youe 3

First of all, congratulations on winning the
Championship. You must have had a pretty fine tean
from what I could judge by way of scores. appearing
in our papers.

My team this year ended the season with seven
wins and nine losses which doesn't sound too good,
but if you could have seen the material on hand at
the start of the season you would agree that seven
wins was next thing to a miracle. For several years
now the scuad has been devoid of players having what
one would call real basketball instinct. The Navy,
although having a V-12 unit here throughout the wer,
didn't seem to send basketball players our way. It
hasn't been too much fun in that usually the members
of the scuad one season were sure to be gone by the
time the next season came around. We are now getting
more civilians enrolled, including some boys who played
for me before they went into service, and I am hoping
we will return to the calibre of teams of the pre-war
variety.

In our schedules in the past few years we have
been hiting off a few big chunks in playing such schools
as Penn, Army, Navy, LaSalle and St Joseph's of Philadelphia,
Princeton and others of that type. In many cases we
were forced to play them far the schools of our size had
given up the game during the war. ‘his year was the first
for a league of schools our size in this section of the
Middle Atlantic States end we finished second in that
competition. All in all the season ended much better
shan even I anticipated although the record doesn't look
too good.on paper.