HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE
fy 3 Section
Office of Director of Physical Training
180 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, California

February 1, 1943

Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Director

Department of Physical Education and Recreation
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Doc:

This is just a note to congratulate you on the wonderful success
you are having with your basketball team! I have followed every game
very carefully and have visualized every victory with pleasure. ‘The
actual acwunts of your games, except for the scores, do not get into
our papers very often. However, another very ardent fan of yours,
young Sonny Hamilton, keeps me pretty well posted on details,

His latest report that you are losing seversl of your stars to
the Army was rather disappointing and I hope it won't happen before
your season is over,

Ruth and I see a great deal of Mary and Pete and their very
fine family. We BEE "to several football games together,and last week
enjoyed a real story-book thriller when Stanford beat California by
two points in the last minute! It reminded me very mch of that all~
time classic when you beat UeSeCe in the last couple of seconds in
Kansas City several years ago.

Needless to say, I enjoyed very much your recent blast at the
NC2A and its new Pot of Gold venture, scheduled for Madison Square
Garden. That story got full coverage out here on the Coast and I hope
it did some good.

The physical training in the Fourth Air Force is finally accomplish-
ing reel results and I feel that we are making a definite contribution
to combat effectiveness, The program is still not what I would like it
to be, nor is it what it should be. The only encouraging thing is that
we are making more rapid progress all the time. Under separate cover,
I am s@nding you a copy of the Fourth Air Force Physical Achievement
Test and a Bulletin on Swimming, both of which may be of interest to
your physical education staff there at K.U. As you know, I worked
on this test for about a year before it came out in this official form,
The results we are getting are very interesting, as well as revealing,
The standards established (which appear on the last page and on the
back of the Record Form card) are sometimes considered to be too high,

but it is our firm belief that anyone who cannot meet at least the