December 1, 1945.

Mr. Ed Condon,
4133-27 Ave. Soe,
Minneapolis 6, Minn.

Dear Mr. Condon:

I am very happy to receive your letter of November 25. Very often we
are misquoted. I always remember what I say, and frankly, I was told by
Knute Roclme ina friendly conversation that he had everything fairly
comfortable for himself at Notre Dame. He said that he had forty big
Catholics in the United States each of whom endowed four scholarships
a year at $100.00 a month for twelve months. ‘The paper quoted me as
saying fom hundred, which was erroneous. Conrad Memn, of Kansas City,
was one of the outstanding Catholics in Kansas. I loiew of his activities
in supplying these boys scholarships. :

Rockne was a very good friend of mine and I had many coaching schools
with him and was at Camp Sheridan with him in 1917 and 1918 when the
athletic directors were in the Army at the Army Student Training Program
at Camp Sheriden. I have been with Mr. Reckme upon a number of occasions
and he and I were very good friends. I was not attacking Mr. Rockne, and
am sorry that you took it that way.

The point that I was making tas that where boys were subsidized with
scholarships it is perfeotly all right if they are openly arrived at.
Then the athletic situation would be a lot better off. Mr. Faurot and
I did not agree on our viewpoints at all. And I did not say that there
were players on the Kansas football team which were not subsidized. I
do not know of any, but doubtless there are some.

_ I have constantly asked for a czar of intercollegiate sports comparable
to Judge Landis's position in organized baseball before he passed away.

I have no idea of quarrelling with you and I am sorry that you have taken
the position that you have. All I have ever asked for is that every con-
ference have rules that are enforoed, which is not being done in any
collegiate conference in the United States. I am sure that you are ap=
praised of that fact. I am sure I would have made a very poor preacher,
but I do know what goes on in intercollegiate athletics.

Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education,
PCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach.