eS } BOARD OF TRUSTEES bet ; HOMER P. RAINEY, CHAIRMAN | AL 1. I E D W. ROY BREG J. ROSCOE DRUMMOND FRANK E. GANNETT ERNEST STACEY GRIFFITH SPENCER MILLER, JR. JOHN R. MOTT DANIEL A. POLING CARROLL R. REED RUSSELL E. SINGER MRS. JOHN L. WHITEHURST _ RAY LYMAN WILBUR ( ADVISORY MEMBERS 4 Y O | Tl I MRS. SAIDIE ORR DUNBAR L EDWIN HOLT HUGHES A. J. STODDARD : MRS. HENRY ALVAH STRONG NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION BLDG, WASHINGTON, D.C. (6) ERNEST R. BRYAN TREASURER June 5, 1944 W. ROY BREG EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Dr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: In view of the fact that it was not possible for you last winter to prepare an article for THE ALLIED YOUTH, I am exceedingly hopeful that sometime during the summer you will find it possible to do so, so that we can have it available when the basketball season begins. ‘The article should be approximately 1,000 words. it is our hope that we shall hear favorably from you with regard to this matter. Very kindest regards and sincere thanks for your vital interest. Sincerely yours, W, Roy eg . Executive Secretary Before I start my talk of the evening, I wish to congratulate Ray Kanehl, the youthful track coach of K.U., and also the University of Kansas track team upon their splendid victory last Saturday afternoon, February 12, over the ancient Missouri Tigers at Columbia, by a score of 67 to 37. This makes rather a unique record. Henry Shenk, Elmer Schaake and Dean Nesmith in their first football coaching experience at Kansas tramped over the Tiger football team, and now Ray Kanehl in his initial venture as track coach at Kansas, whipped the Missouri Tigers. This appears as a good omen for first year varsity coaches at Kansas. The basketball — coach at Kansas this year cannot boast of the records of the yearlings. THE HEROIC SPIRIT OF YOUTH Harold "Sparky" McSpadden of ElDorado, Kansas; Don Barrington of Kansas City, Kensas; Dean Corder of Welda, Kansas; George Dick of McLouth, Kansas; Don Diehl of Smith Center, Kansas; Charles Moffett of Peabody, Kansas; Willard G. Frank of Beloit, Kansas, and Ottawa University; Louis Goehring of Arkansas City, Kamsas; Gordon Stucker of Lawrence, Kansas; William "R411" Lindquist of Kansas City, Kensas; Homer Sherwood of sitiianines City, Kansas; Robert "Bob" Malott of Lawrence, Kansas; Lloyd Palmer of Postville, Iowa; Robert “Bob” Turner of Seattle, Washington; Joe Brasch of Spokane, Washington; Howard Hall of Kansas City, Missouri; and Bob Bock of Macksville, Kansas - are members of the Kansas varsity basketball team. These sixteen boys are just names to some people. But to me they are real people, and in addition they are a symbol of the sacrificial spirit of yo&th, - that heroic spirit that resides in the breast of every teen-age boy when he begins to worship a hero. a2e Perhaps I should tell you that the most surprising thing that occurred to me was when I learned that not one of these sixteen boys, including their coach and team trainer, Dean Nesmith, use no tobacco a" or out of season, — Just as Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's meat, so doubtless did these boys in their teen age purpose in their hearts that they would build a strong body, the body of a champion, if you please. They then and there were willing to pay a price - a price that would require them to say no a thousand times or more to temptation before they could build their bodies and fit themselves for this future struggle that they desired a part. This is the great value that accrues to a boy from competitive athletics if he has a competitive spirit and a will sufficient to overcome his temptation. It would be interesting indeed to call each one of these before us and to inquire from each one what the motivating ‘intense was in their lives to cause them to reject the so-called good time of the average boy who will not sacrifice for his future dream. Every boy is a selfish meatier. He naturally must be to develop himself. Every boy wants the biggest piece of pie. His flexors used in drawing things unto himself are many times stronger than his extensors, the muscles used in pushing away from the body. It gives a boy orenh pete to lose, and it also gives him great joy to win. Therefore, the boy being a selfish creature, in his great desire to win will say no to these temptations that beset the drugstore cowboy, the mezzanine hurdler and the cooky-pusher, or the woo=woo boys. This new terminology of the college campus is used because back in ancient times when the warrior went away to do battle and was killed, then a period of time set in in which the wooers came to woo the wife of the ~3- lost soldier. These college boys are up on their history, and now it is the woo-woo boys instead of bundlers, spooners and neckers who would rather have a good thm at parties and dates and automobile joyrides, even in gas rationing days, than the boy who, saying no a thousand times to the easy life, will pass up indigestible yet tasty foods, will go to bed each night long before the good-timers are in bed -- all for the sake of being a first rate fighting man in high school and sollege athletics. Someone has said that when two country boys meet they say, "Let's wrestle." When two city slickers meet they say, "Let's throw a party.” Contact and combat have always appealed to strong men. The sacrificial spirit that resides in every young chap is ready for expression if you can grip and hold the aims and the ideals of the teen-age boy. The hundreds end thousands of young boys all over America and all over the world have viewed Glenn Cunningham as a super-man. Glenn Cunningham was a super~ man. You will recall the story of how his brother was burned to death in a school-house fire, how Glenn was so dangerously injured in that fire that the phyeielone gave up all hope of his ever walking again. He could not go to school. Those great scars that show welts on his legs as large as your little finger were the result of that terrible fire. But Glem Cunningham had a longing to go to school. He thirsteth for knowledge, and the first time he ran away from home, Glenn told me, he ran away to school. He always dreamed of being a college professor, mmixkmixy After his graduation from the University of Kansas where he obtained his baccalaureate degree and set the world's records in the mile, he entered the University of Iowg where he obtained his master's degree, and then on to New York University where he obtained his doctor of philosophy degree and continued to dazzle the world with his phenomenal bursts of speed. At the present time he is head of the Department of Physical Education and Health st Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, Towa. Geum Cuminghem purposed in his heart that he would be a champion and that later he would be a college professor. He attained both, but the road was not easy. Day after day he stretched those inninwee legs, - not for the purpose of being a champion miler, but for the purpose of even learning ; to walk upright without limping. He worked on the farm for his father. He was @ janitor in the school buildirg. Glenn Cumingham never had anything easye It .is only through struggle and travail that strong men are born. How many times have the boys of our high schools of this nation been told .by® Glem Cunningham that if you want to be a champion you cannot smoke. Glenn Cumningham was offered huge royalties by the tobaceo trust if he would give a testimony for cigarettes “that are toasted", "that do not have a cough in a car load", that "do not irritate your throat", - but he stead- ‘fastly refused. And today doubtless Glenn Cumingham had a very definite effect upon the lives of some of these 16-year-old boys who are playing on the Kansas varsity and who still do not smoke in or out of season, I remember being in a coaching school with Glem “Pop” Warner, acclaimed the greatest of all crafty football coaches of the generation just past. Two men approached him on one of the college campuses where we were having a master coaching school, and sah; "Here's a letter for you, Mr. Warner." Pop Warner took the letter, looked into it, and said,"I'1l let you know this afternoon," At that time Coach Glem Warner was coaching the Stanford University team. We ate luncheon together and he asked me this question, “Allen, those fellows wanted me to endorse "Bikey Strike’ cigarettes. What do you think about it?” | ee paket ie - — eS 4 is ° NS yt a I said, "Well, Mr. Warner, I don't believe President Lyman Wilbur o of your University, would be happy to see your face and yale signature on every billboard in America, negating that the young men ta Anerioa take up the cigarette smoking habit." | ae A Always a man of deliberate, taciturn, yet crafty résotions ae they called him "the old fox" -- reflectedly turned to me and 38 4, "Yes, I guess you are right." \ He turned them down, and if you knew what that meant b Glem Scobie Suerte reactions, you would have known that it was a great ‘ictory. Glenn Scobie Warner is Scotch, He never threw his money away. \ The next day he quietly said to me, "Do you know what was in that envelope?" And I said, "No, Mr. Warner, I do not." He replied, “There silt two $500.00 bills." After Jim Bausch won the decathlon in the Olympic Gemes in Los Angeles in 1932 he was considered the world's greatest all-round athlete, The tobacco interest obtained his signature, but din Bausch did not win the championship by training on cigarettes. No champion athlete ever does. By observation these young boys watch " champion perform and they are quick to learn that a champion cannot dissipate his energies and have - ome left to meet the challenge of the challenger who is constantly coming on -- coming on. Up through the hundreds and thousands of years men have been clutching at each other's throats, Contact and coubat have developed in such a way that our youth play the games like the soldiers play at war, but there are rules of the game in athletics that must be followed - inhibitions that must be practiced. Education through play is obtained by following these inhibitions. The Chinese philosopher says that our athletic games are merely a list of "don'ts". ~Go A team never wins a game ever in their experience. The opponents lose the game by their mistakes. We call them errors in baseball, we call them fouls in basketball and track, and we call them penalties in football, But they are all mistakes under different names. | fhe coach teaches fundamentals, In basketball the boy is taught how ts pivot, how to pass, how to dribble, how to shoot a goal, and so forth, The instinct of pley is one of the dominant reactions in the human animal, Therefore, the boy will go through endless hours of grueling fundamental training that is not fun, but the boy pley for the reward - the possible chance of victory. He will harness himself with obstacles so that he may achieve success. “fhe stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of the corner." Years ago the educator said that athletics were only good for the surplus energy of youth. To our pioneer forefathers, a fellow who partici pated in athletics was an idler, a no-good fellow, but today if the proper objectives are held before youth you can lead this young bronco through the formative years of life with an athletic halter that should insure him a strong body, a courageous spirit and a fighting heart. He will learn to take defeat and disappointment, not in an easy, happy manner, because no one likes to lose, but under the good code of sportsmanship. He will extend his hand to his victor and say, Congratulations, sir, knowing full well that life is a bettle, ‘a promising his eieemery that he will fight just as hard or a little harder at the next opportunity for combat. So education has incorporated the constructive values of competitive athletics for ow growing boy. The educator aid not discover this because inherently in the boy's breast was a great desire for conquest. But the educator has failed to find something that will grip and hold the girl and make her say no a thousand times to temptation. The educator still has a job _ ance enone ee Te to do for her. It is said that more girls in America are smoking cigarettes ¥han boys. The challenge to the girl would not necessarily be through the ehannel of athletics as for the boy, but it is up to the research professor in education, or up to some one in education who knows what would challenge the girl to the same comparable endeavor. A connoisseur when asked as to the cardinal prinoiples of beauty for women, listed them as follows: her hair, her eyes, and her teeth. Just as cigarettes destroy the power of the athlete, so do cigarettes destroy the beauty of & woman's teeth. It is not a moral problems it is an efficiency one, Therefore, it is possible to appeal to the girl from a different angle, just as it is possible to challenge the boy through competitive athletics, Someone has said, "God make us wise to know | ‘How strong the stalk must grow That rears so fair a flower.” Certainly every individual who understands the laws of heredity and who appreciates the strength given them by their parents and forebears, should feol their obligation to society to desire a strong body for their owm loved ones. "So wee a gift, yet the wealth of many lands Cannot buy it in the richest mrt. So frail a gift, yet those tiny hands Take mighty hold upon two humen hearts." ss’ Before I start my talk of the evening, I wish to congratulate Ray Kenehl, the youthful track coach of K.U., and also the University of Kansas track team upon their splendid victory last Saturday afternoon, February 12, over the ancient Missouri Tigers at Columbia, by a score of 67 to 37. This makes rather a unique record. Henry Shenk, Elmer Schaake and Dean Nesmith in their first football coaching experience at Kansas tramped over the Tiger football teau, and now Rey Kanehl in his initial venture as track coach at Kensas, whipped the Missouri Tigers. This appears as a good omen for first year varsity coaches at Kansas. The basketball coach at Kansas this year camot boast of the records of the yearlings. THE HEROIC SPIRIT OF YOUTH Harold "Sparky" MeSpadden of BlDorado, Kensas; Don Barrington of Kansas City, Kansas; Dean Corder of Welda, Kansas; George Dick of MoLouth, Kansas; Don Diehl of Smith Center, Kansas; Charles Moffett of Peabody, Kansas; Willard G. Frank of Beloit, Kansas, and Ottawa University; Louis Goehring of Arkansas City, Kansas; Gordon Stucker of Lawrence, Kansas; William "Bill" Lindquist of Kansas City, Kansas; Homer Sherwood of Arkansas City, Kansas; Robert "Bob" Malott of Lewrence, Kansas; Lloyd palmer of Postville, Iowa; Robert “Bob” Turner of Seattle, Washington; Joe Brasch of Spokane, Washington; Howard Hall of Kensas City, Missouri; and Bob Bock of Macksville, Kansas - are members of the Kansas varsity basketbull team. These sixteen boys are just names to some people. But to me they are real people, and in addition they are a symbol of the sacrificial spirit of yottth, - that heroic spirit that resides in the breast of every teen-age boy when he begins to worship e hero. ~20 Perhaps I should tell you that the most surprising thing that ocourred to me was when I learned that not one of these sixteen boys, including their coach and team trainer, Dean Nesmith, use no tobacco in or out of season. Just as Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's ment, so doubtless did these boys in their teen age purpose in their hearts that they would build a strong body, the body of a champion, if you please. They then and wien were willing to pay a price ~ a price that would require them to say no a thousand times or more to temptation before they could build their bodies and fit themselves for this future struggle that they desired a part. This is the great value that accrues to a boy from competitive athletios if he has a competitive spirit and a will sufficient to overcome his temptation. It would be interesting indeed to call each one of these before us end to inquire from each one what the motivating influence was in their lives to cause them to reject the so-called good time of the average boy who will not sacrifice for his future anetin. Every boy is a selfish creature. He naturally must be to develop himself. Bvery boy wants the biggest piece of pie. His flexors used in drawing things unto himself are many times stronger than his extensors, the muscles used in pushing away from the body. It gives a boy great pain to lose, and it also gives him great joy to win. Therefore, the boy being a selfish creature, in his great desire to win will say no to these temptations that beset the drugstore cowboy, the mezzanine hurdler and the cooky-pusher, or the woo-woo ete This new terminology of the college campus is used because back in ancient times when the warrior went away to do battle and was killed, then a period of time set in in which the wooers came to woo the wife of the STR lost soldier. These college boys are up on their history, and now it is the woo=woo boys instead of timdlers, spooners and neckers who would rather have a good time at parties and dates and automobile joyrides, even in gas rationing days, than the boy who, saying no a thousand tines to the easy life, will pass up indigestible yet tasty foods, will go to bed each night long before the good-timers are in bed ~~ all for the sake of being a first rate fighting man in high school and college athletics. Someone has said that when two country boys meat they say, "Let's wrestle." When two city slickers moct they say, "Let's throw a party." Contact and combat have always appealed to strong men. The sacrificial spirit that resides in every young chap is ready for expression if you can grip and hold the aims and the ideals of the teen-age boy. The hundreds and thousands of young boys all over America and all over the world have viewed Glenn Cumvingham as a super-man. Glenn Cunningham was a supere mane You will recall the story of how his brother was burned to death in a school~-house fire, how Glemm was so dangerously injured in that fire that the physicians gave up all hope of his ever walking again. lie could not go to school. Those great scars that show welts on his legs as large as your little finger were the result of that terrible fire. But Glem Cuminghan had a longing to go to school. we thirsteth for knowledge, and the first time he ren away from home, Glenn told me, he ran awey to school. He always dreamed of being a college professor, muixkmiay After his graduation from the _ University of Sansas where he obtained his baccalaureate degree and set the world's records in the mile, he entered the University of Iowg where he obtained his master's degree, ot tm oe New York University where he obtained his dootor of philosophy degree and continued to dazzle the world with -his phenomenal bursts of speed. At the present time he is head of the —— evhee Department of Physical Education and Health at Cornell College -" Mt. Vernon, Towa. Glenn Cuminghem purposed in his heart that he would be a champion and that later he would be a college professor. He attained both, but the road was not easy. Day after day he stretched those scarred legs, - not for the purpose of being a champion miler, but for the purpose of even learning to walk upright without limping. He worked on the farm for his father. He was @ janitor in the school building. Glenn Cunningham never had anything easy. It vid only through struggle and travail that strong men are born. “ How many times have the boys of our high sohools of this nation been told .by: Glenn Curmingham that af you want to be a champion you cannot smoke. Glenn Cunningham was offered huge royalties by the tobacco trust if he would give a testimony for olgarettes “that are toasted", "that do not have @ cough in a car load", that “do not irritate your throat", - but he stead- | fastly refused. And today doubtless Glenn Cumingham had a very definite effect upon the lives of some of these 16-year-old boys who are playing on the Kansas varsity and who still do not smoke in or out of season. I remember being in a coaching school with Glen "Pop" Warner, . aeclaimed the aristest ef all crafty football coaches of the generation just past. Two men «pproached him on one of the college campuses where we were having a master senate school, and said, “Here's a letter for you, Mr. Warner." Pop Warner took the letter, looked into it, and said,"I'll let you know this afternoon." At that time Coach Glom Warner was coaching the Stanford University team. We ate luncheon together and he asked me this question. “Allen, those fellows wanted me +o endorse "Bikey Strike' cigarettes. What do you think about it?" I said, "Well, Mr. Warner, I don't believe President Lyman Wilbur ef your University, would be happy to see your face and our signature on every billboard in America, suggesting that the young at in America take up the cigarette smoking habit." , h Always a man of deliberate, taciturn, yot oratty reactions o- they called him "the old fox" <« = reflectodly turned to me snd said, "Yes, I guess you are right." ‘ He turned them down, en AF you knew wnt that meet in Oem Scobie Warner's reactions, you would have known that it was a great victory. Glenn Scobie Warner is Sootch. He never threw his money, emmys ‘ The next dey he quietly said to ne, "Do you know what was in that envelope?" And I said, "No, Mr. Warner, I do not.” a replied, “there were two $500.00 bills." " \ After Jim Bausch won the decathlon in the Olympic Geanea! in Los Angeles in 1932 he was considered the world's greatest alleround athlete. The tobacco interest obtained his signature, but Jim Bausoh did not win the \\ shampionship by training on cigarettes. No champion athlete one does. By observation these young boys watch a champiog sl dies end ere quick to learn that a champion cannot dissipate his energies end have \ enough left to meet the challenge of the challenger who is constantly coning | on -= coming on. Up through the hundreds and thousands of years men have \ been clutching at each cther’s throats. | Contact and combat have developed \ _ dn such a way that our youth play the games like the soldiers pley at war, but there are rules of the game in athletics that mist be followed - inhibitions that must be practiced. Education through play is obtained by following these inhibitions. ‘The Chinese philosopher says that our athletic games are merely a list of "don'ts". -6~ A team never wins a game ever in their experience. ‘The opponents lose the game by their mistakes. We call them errors in baseball, we call them fouls in basketball and track, and we oall them penalties in football. But they are all mistakes unier different ues. The coach teaches fundamentals. In basketball the boy is taught how to pivot, how to pass, how to dribble, how to shoot a goal, and so forth. The instinct of play is one of the dominant reactions in the humen animal. : Therefore, the boy will go through endless hours of grueling fundamental training that is not fum, but the boy play for the reward - the possible chanee of victory. He will harness himself with obstacles so that he may achieve success. “fhe stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of the corner." Years ago the educator said that athletics were only good for the surplus energy of youth. To ou pioneer forefathers, a fellow who participated in athletios was an idler, a no-good fellow, but today if the proper objectives are held before youth you can lead this young bronco through the formative years of life with an athletic halter that should insure him a strong body, a courageous spirit and a fighting heart. He will learn to take defeat and disappointment, not in an easy, happy mumer, beoause no one likes to lose, bub water the good code of sportemmehip. He will extend his hand to his victor and say, Congratulations, sir, knowing full well that life is a bettle, and promising his adversary that he will fight just as hard or a little harder at the next opportunity for combat. | So education has incorporated the constructive values of competitive athletics for ow growing boy. The educator did not discover this because inherently in the boy's breast was a great desire for conquest. But the educator has failed to find something that will grip and hold the girl end make her sey no a thousand times to temptation. ‘The educator still has a job oo Ta to do for her. It is said that more girls in America are smoking cigarettes then boys. ‘he challenge to the girl would not necessarily be through the chamel of athletics as for the boy, but it is up to the research professor in education, or up to some one in education who imows what _ endlenge the girl to the seme comparable endeavor. A comoisseur when asked as to the cardinal principles of beauty for women, listed them as follows: her hair, her eyes, and her teeth. Just es cigarettes destroy the power of the athlete, so do cigarettes destroy the beauty of a woman's teeth. It is not a moral problems it is an eftioiency one, Therefore, it is possible to appeal to the girl from a different angle, just as it is possible to challenge the boy through competitive athletics. 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