Air Corps TECHNICAL SCHOOL
KEESLER FIELD, MISSISSIPPI

August 31, 1943

Dr. Forrest P. Allen,
Basketball Coach,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kan.

Dear Coach:

For a little magazine piece on which I have the go
_ sign, I am asking the country's ten leading basketball
- coaches to name the ten best college basketball players
of modern history. Would you be kind enough to send me

a list of your candidates?

I hope you will base your selections on actual
collegiate performances, not what they might have done
as pros, if any of them did continue in professional
basketball. I want you to consider, if you will, the
boys you have coached, ones against whom your teems
have played, ones you have seen, and those whom you did
not have a chance to see perhaps but are cdrtain have
a place on that list of ten.

This is to be a concensus vote, and I will not put
you on the spot by crediting you directly. However, in
case you name some of your own boys, which you perhaps
will, I would appreciate a direct quote. Or for that
matter, anything you would like to say about any of the
players.

Thanking you kindly for this and past ia r I

remain
sometrarete
Pvte Rob Ae a

(Former Athletic Publicity
Director Indiana University)

I met you in '40,