x x For all practical purposes many intercollegiate conferences could be divided into a “big pocketbook league" and a'\small pocketbook league The “big pocketbook league" members are generally the championship winners and the “small pocketbook league"members are the consolation winners. en a Ch Nig ae oe ya a oo Wactb Hate. Tract bat? - Tee __ fo maetng ay ys = SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE W. W. PARKER, PRESIDENT CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI November 29 1941 Dr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: Herewith enclosed are the clippings from the Southeast Missourian covering your speech here. I understand that it made the front page of the Kansas City Star. We greatly enjoyed your visit. We hope you can come back sometime and bring Mrs. Allen. Most sincerely yours, We W. PARKER President ° eS rN qi SOUTHEAST MissourR!I STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Ww. W. PARKER, PRESIDENT CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI December Z 1941 Dr. Forrest C. Allen Department of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Doc: The Hirsch boys are named Bobby and Jimmy. Mrs. Parker requests that I pass this information on to you. Very truly yours, / « We PARKER President WWP :BC P.S. I have just received your letter accompanied by the manuscript of your recent address here. I thank you for it. Oscar Hirsch is the father's name. The above letter was dictated before receiving your special delivery letter. I shall be glad indeed to receive an autographed copy of your "Better Basketball". I am a collector of such items. I know the Hirsch boys will be glad to have an autographed copy. The Hirsch radio station is KFVS, Cape Girardeau. He also owns a station in Cairo. Most as cea yours, - We Pe THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS pec ies LAWRENCE OFFICE OF THE DEAN December 4, 1941 Dr. Forrest C. Allen Depte of Physical Education University of Kansas | My dear “Phog™: Many thanks for your sending over the copy of your speech given at Cape Girardeau last Wednesday. I read it through with the greatest interest and want to con- gratulate you on having said something that has needed saying for a long time from all that I can gather. The favorable reactions that this talk has caused over the country must be a real pleasure to you. I am returning the talk, as I imagine you will want it for your files. Sincerely yours, D. M. Swarthout Dean . DMS :af p : i E ES December 4, 1941 Dr. Noble P. Sherwood Snow Hall Campus Dear Dr. Sherwood, I am sending you a copy of the speech that I gave at Cape Girardeau, Mo. a week ago. I thought that you might be interested in reading it. Sincerely, | Director of Physical Education and Recreation | FCA/pg Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach SOUTHEAST MISSOURI TELEPHONE COMPANY TELEPHONE BUILDING 800 BROADWAY THOMAS T. FERGUSON, AupitTor Cape GIRARDEAU December 1, 1941 Dr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Fducation University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Cosch Allen: I returned to my office this morning for the first time since I saw you last week, and found your Letter on my desk. It wes my intention to write you thanking you -for making a personal appearance at our annual foot- ball dinner. Your talk was very much appreciated by everyone present. In fact, I heard several of our members remark that in their opinion, it was the finest and most inspirstional talk ever made at one of our annual dinners. I certainly will take advantage of your kind invitation if the opportunity ever presents itself. I will, no doubt, be in Kansas some time during the next year, as my parents still live in Eldorado. I will consider it a pleasure to visit you. Thanking you again for your splendid talk, I remain Sincerely yours, December 3, 1941 Mr. Van Bruner 1500 New Hampshire Kansas Lawrence, Dear Van, I am sending you a copy of the speech which I gave a week ago eat Cape Girardeau, Mo. It has aroused quite a lot of comment and F moge thet you might be interested in reading it. Sincerely, Bal Director of Physical Education and Recreation PCA/pg Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach December 2, 1941 Cheneeller Deane W. Malott Prank Streng Hall Campus | Dear Chancellor Melott, There has been # cood deal written and said regarding the speech I made a Cape Girardeau, Missouri, last week. I am sending you a copy of the speech so that cf, passing hours you may peruse it. As head of the Department of Physical Education I feel that there is need for someone to tell the high school youngsters the truth regarding the durable things of college lifes With ell good wishes, I ea Sincerely yours, . Director of Physical Education and Recreation — -Poa/pg : Varsity Basketbull and Baseball Coach : November 28, 1941. President W. Ws Parker, Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Dear Friend Walter and Mrs. Parker: pee ae I want you to know how sincerely I enjoyed the splendid hospitality of your unique and lovely home. Gee, I could have stayed there a week gnd visited, but of course you had work to do and all I had to do was loaf. , I am writing to Mr. Frederic W. Lang, of Forsyth, Georgia, today, asking him to mail you one of the Lang Arch Normaligzere on thirty days' trial. I know that both of you will be delighted with it. I carry mine wherever I go and would not take anything for thie wonderful device. ; I also meant to give you a copy of the speech that I read the other evening. I had it in my possession and wanted to pass it on to you, but failed to do so. I am enclosing it — I am also autographing my text on basketball, called "Better Basketball”, and sending it to youe If you will turn to the back and read “The Tales of Yesteryear” it will remind you of Ug Sermon and some of the other boys that you mew. The "Phantom in Cleated Shoes", of course, is Ug. Some of the other yarns are also interesting to read if and when you have nothing else to do. : Will you give me the names of Dr. Fitsgerald's grandchildren - that is, Marjorie's children? Also their father’s name. I want to autograph a book for them and send it to then. What is their dad's radio station? With deep appreciation and fond memories of the past Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education and Recreation, FCA:AH |. Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach. Enc. Pe S. , Say, by the way, W. We, that article - "To your Very Good Health, The Air Bath" - by Victor G. Heiser, M.D., is in the ' Better Homes and Gardens for October. I know you and Mrs. Parker will enjoy reading it. P.Cohe November 28, 1941. Mr. Frederick Wi. Ware, Omaha. World-lieraid, Omaha, Nebraska. Dear frederick: Bob Busby ran your comment on the discussion of sub- sidized football that yan obtained from the Chicago sport writer. , Frederick, I never have stated that all coaches are wide re or bums. That was Brownie's interpretation that he put upon my statement. Every speech that I have ever made I have said that we have had wonderful gentlemen who have cosched footbell and > major sports, and wonderful gentlemen who are now coaching. But we do have the beagle hound variety, the fellow who beats the bushes and sniffles around for any athletic material that he can recruit. This type of ccach misrepresents to the bey the pseudo-value of his ath- letics. The boy is gullible and loves to play. And instead - of the young athlete going to college to be inspired by his instructors and his fellow students he loses sight of that main goal, and naturally he thinks that if he can walk in the footsteps of this big time coach then he is in select company. If the boy has difficulty with his studies the coach many times selects or suggests oasier courses. Sany boys finish their three years of intercollegiate athletic competition without getting past the sophomore standing - certainly not higher than jumior standing. You kmow, Fred, a boy can take any course in the university and it counts toward his athletic eligibility. But there are sequences that a fellow mist take if he gracuates, and he must make at least a “C" average to graduate, Many of our so-called dumb or poor athletes play straight through on "Dp" grades. "C” grades only give grade points, and if he does not have enough “C" grades then he cannot advance to the next higher ranking class, as a junior, and so forth. Therefore, the big time athlete picks out soft courses because, after all, he is a big shot - he isn’t thinking much about graduating. Now I am talking about the dumb big time athlete, and there are a lot of them, Fred. Their mental quotient has been blunted by the negative value afforded by intercollegiate athletics as the all-important thing, rather than the positive value of mind training and career seeking professional work that a boy is supposed to go to college for. Le Many boys do go to college wholly to play basketball, football, or baseball, and so forth. But if they are the right sort. and under the right influence of the coach who should encourage the bey to graduate, then this athlete will catch step with a great majority of college students who are here for a purpose and he will swing in stride and actually get the ambition to graduate even though he did not have it when he came te school, , ae ‘My point is, Fred, ei. ik Wiiash cain ihe Geen to his athletes. Joe McCarthy and Larry MacPhail do not owe that attitude to their men. But it does happen that we are an educational institution and we are taking the finest boys in the land with the greatest possibilities, and instead of inspiring them on to greater leadership which will carry over in the next thirty years, a lot of coaches say, “I am not paid to do that." Wo, they may do that, but they are certainly not paid to make a boy duller, and thus lessen his opportunities. 7 I would like to sit down end talk with you one hour. I believe 1 could ge11 you on the idea that many coaches at the pres~ ess the shyster lawyer in his. There is nothing wrong with the law, and — the law is an honorable profession. But when a men distorts the true purpose of his calling and takes his material - the finest in the land in the way of American youth - then I say that it is time to call a halt to it and see just exactly what the coach is really teaching your ee Then you will get to straight thinking pretty if This is not an evangelical attitude. It is an efficiency proposition - just as a teacher of engineering makes the student more efficient or proficient. It is an everyday job that every coach whe is handling the youth of the country should recognize. Thoy should challenge the best in him by using the athletic halter to lead - this young broncho into the tougher things of life with the philosophy and with the training that should enable him to cope with them. .I am sending you a carbon copy of the spedch that I made at Caps Girardeau at the Southeast State Teachers College last Wednesday. In each and every one of these speeches I have talked only to the high school boy and warned him against this built up thing called “big time athletics". It is no good for my boy and it is no good for yours. And I @ trying to be honest with the boys, that is all. I am not one whit afraid of the coach who cusses me out or ostracizes me for my views. I would rather have as my friend a kid that is going to college and standing at the crossroad - I would rather have him as my friend when I endeavor to show him both roada. Sincerely YOurs, | Director of Physical Education and Recreation, PCA:AH Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach. Qenenter ly 204i. tir. C. KH. Thompson, The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo. Dear Friend Clad: I read with e creat deal of interest your somments on the super-czar stuff. I agree with you, Pip, that that is a sizeable job for almost any men, with the exception of the type of Kenesaw Mountain Landis - and a few of the fear- less boys. At the first opportunity that I have when I get to Kansas City I am going to drep by for a chat with you. I am sending you @ copy of the speech I made at Cape Girardeau for your perusal. Very sincerely yours, Director of Fhysical Education and Recreation, FCAsAH Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach. December 1, 1941, Mr. Henry Jd. Maskell, The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo. Dear ire Haskell: Zi noted with interest your comment on the editerial page of the Star regarding the ozer idea in intercollegiate football. I am sending you a copy of the speech that I made at Cape Girardeau for your passing perusal. You will note that I have always stated that sub- sidized football is on the way out, the way it is being governed at present in the colleges. With kindest personal regards to you and Mre. Haskell, I am — Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education and Recreation, PCA:AH Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach. Honorable Fred M. Harris, Ottawa, Kansas Dear Senator Marris: There has been a good deal written and said regarding the speeck I made at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, last week. I em sending you a copy of the apesck.so that in your passing hours you may peruse it. ; As head of the Department of Physical Education I feel that there is need for someone to tell the high school youngsters the truth regarding the durable things of college life. With all good wishes, I am Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education and Reoreation, PCA:AH Yarat ty Basketball and Baseball eee November 28, 1941. Lewrence Journal-liorld, Lewrence, Kansas. I enjoyed the short visit with you over the phone this afternoon. I eam sending you a carbon copy of the speech that I made at Cape Girardeau night, the 26th. You are privileged to use any part of this that you care to use at any time in eny of your discussions or comments. — Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education and Recreation, PCA :AH Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach. November 23, 1941. Mire Dan Partner, Sports Desk, The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouris Dear Dans I am sending you, confidentially, a copy of my speech that I em to mke Wednesday, the 26th, at Cape Girardeau when the Lions Club entertains the Southeast Missouri State Teashers College and Central High School teams at their annual foctball banquet. Z Belsovd Thane met the Sanus Seu/bensty int shoves boarde ‘This is a reply to my long-time friend, %ejor Griffith, who says that "football at the present is on« Joying sound health and is becoming more of an amateur sport all the time.” Yery sincerely yours, _-- Dirveetor of Physieal Education and Recroation, ang Varsity Basketball Coache Encle December 2, 1941 Professor Guy Smith Prank Strong Hall Campus Dear Guy, 4 As I promised you during our golf maté the other day, I am sending you a copy of the speech that*I made at the Southeast ' Missouri State Teachers College at Cape Girardeau, Mo. last Wednesdays Sincerely, ) Diréctor of Physical Bducetion and Recreation PCA/pg Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach REPRESENTING ——— COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE CO. LTD. T. G. FITCH INSURANCE AGENCY 824 MASSACHUSETTS STREET LAWRENCE, KAN. December 5, 1941, Mr. F. GC. Allen University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Mr. Allen: I appreciated your letter of December end, and have read with great interest, the talk that you made at ¢ Cape Girardeau, and I think it=-weuldcbe WPwWxs very fine and good reading for anyone to get the information that you gave in this talk. I appreciate your sending it to me very much. Many thanks. Sincerely yours, TGF : MH o Enc. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF BACTERIOLOGY LAWRENCE December 6, 1941 Dr. ¥. G. ALiG“ : Director of Physical Education and Recreation University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear’Dr. Allen; I want to thank you for the copy of your speech given at Cape Girardeau. I have read it with a great deal of interest and think that it is a very fine presentation of the subject. May you have all kinds of success in your efforts to clean up athletics. With kind personal regards, I am, Yours very sincerely, PF eK N. P. Sherwood Head of the Department NPS:ib December 9, 1941 Dr. HH. King Head of the Dept. of Chemistry Kensas State College Manhattan, Kansas Dear Dr. King, Wike Ahern and I hed a little chat Saturday regarding the speech that I made at Cape Girardeau, Mo. I am sending him a copy of the speech and I am sending you one so that you may see what I have to s@ye When you see so many fellows making eccentric statements and many of these seme statements coming to pass, 1 feel perhaps that I have as much right to express my opinion and then expect ny - predictions to come to pass as have other eccentrics. " It was good to see you if only for a short while. I always enjoy my conferences and visitations with you. b Sincerely, Director of Physical Education and Recreation Fca/pe Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach December 9, 1941 Mr. M. F. Ahern . Director of Athletics Kansas State College Manhattan, Kansas Dear Mike, It was great to see you Saturday at the Muehlbach, but the tine was too short for a visit. I am sending you a copy of the &p deau, Moe since we discussed it in our short conference. you to see just what I said. I have always said that subsidized - football would not last ten years. I have never said that foot- ball woulé be out unless some radical changes were made. With ell good wishes I am Sincerely, Director of Physical Bdueation and Reereation FCA/pg Varsity Basketbell and Baseball Coach December 11, 1941 Mr. We Fe Fox, dvs Taitampolts, Yations Dear Mr. Fox, Bob Busby, in his sports column in the Daily Journal-World as of December 9, quoted you on what you thought my s was on college footbail. I coached football at the University of Kansas back in 1920 and heving coached the game in an intercollegiate way for over 10 years and having officiated in college games for more than than number of years and having served as Athletic Director for 18 years, I feel that I have some background to base my con- clusions, upon. You understand that I am not criticizing anything that you have said. These remarks to you are preliminary to my mailing to you a copy of the speech which I made at Cape Girardesu, Mo. I believe that my remarks are prima facia evidence that I am not against football. I want to assure you that I em not against football any more than I am against basketbell, but there are many things which would bear looking into in the so-called “ame- teur®” Came f I made the remark that subsidized football was in trouble. With all good wishes I am Sincerely yours, Directer of Physical Education and Recreation FcA/pg Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach : ee KANSAS STATE COLLEG : | ta OF AGRICULTURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE = MANHATTAN : : DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS December 13, 1941 D,- Forrest C. Allen Basketball Coach University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Doctor Allen: Thank you very much for sending me the manuscript of the speech you delivered at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on the evening of November 26, 1941. I have not yet had time to give ‘ the subject matter the attention it deserves, but I promise | you I am going to give it my careful study, and I feel certain Iwill find mch that will be of intense interest for those who administrate an athletic program. ; I also enjoyed having a visit with you that was all too short, and I hope that at some future date we will have more time to talk over athletic problems. comes yours, Me FP, Ahearn Director : : : CLASS OF SERVICE \ \ | E S E R if Ag ) SYMBOLS This is a full-rate ' DL=Day Letter Ecles De tee: oe ‘ NT=Overnight Teiegram erred character is in- ; LC =Deferred Cable dicated by a suitable symbol above or pre- NLT =Cable Night Letter {ceding the address. R. B. WHITE NEWCOMB CARLTON J. C. WILLEVER L Shetadeen 2 PRESIDENT | CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD ~— FIRST VICE-PRESID ENT The filing time shown in the date line on telegrams and day letters is STANDARD TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination KAV75 1621NDIANAPOLIS IND 15 1214P par DEC 15 Pu I 49 DR FORREST € ALLEN= ve UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS :DO YOU HAVE ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE NEWS PRINTING CAPEGURARBEAG ADDRESSa THANKS FOR YOUR LETTER 100: THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE Decoxber 17, 1941. ’ Mr. Arch Ward, Sports Editor, The Chicago Tribune, : Chicago, Illinois. Dear Arch: ily brother, Hubert Allen, who lives in Chicago, mailed me your "In the Wake of the News” columm a week or so ago. i have been carrying it in my pocket hoping to read it, and only last night got a chance to do so. I am sending you a copy of an address I made at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on November 26th. It seems to voice identically the sane ‘thing hat you wrote in a column that Hubert sent me. With kindest personal regards and best wishes, I am Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education and Recreation, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach. Enel