ball game, and win or lose, having as their main purpose
getting an education at their University.

eoeee¢

Then I paid to the Oklahoma situation about as much
time as I thought it was worth - about three minutes. Just at
that time, when I had finished, Bruce Drake walked down the
aisle and asked to speak. I gave him the courtesy of the plat-
form. We had nearly ten minutes remaining, and when the whistle
blew I feared that we would be held responsible for running over
time so I wrote on a card and handed it to Bruce Drake - "The
convocation time is up. I am sorry."

Bruce Drake said to the audience, "Doc wants me to
quit - says my time is up - I'd like to go on." And the stud-
ents cheered and gave an indication that they might like to sit
another convocation morning out the way they did after the Aggie
victory. After he used seven minutes over the convocation time
I was thinking very strongly of walking over to him and saying,
“Bruce, I am sorry. We must quit because we are running over —
our time." He was making a very poor case for himself and the
students were casting jibes at him. It might have been mental
telepathy or aute-suggestion, because just then he quit.

The surprising thing to me, Raymond, is that with
those things put before the students there was not a single
report that mentioned one thing I said except about Oklahoma,
which I meant. I did not pull my punches because I wanted the
students te know the rules and if we are supposed to obey them
I wanted someone to know that I expected our opponents to obey
them.

This is written to yeu in full explanation so that

you and the Convocation Committee will know that I did not use
the convocation hour brawling.

Very sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education and Recreation
FCA:AH Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach.