‘ A thine ine Yankee youngster, sé cis lene 'yikin ot cag ak
- moved to Kansas City, and you imow what the Yankees do to their Rtgw«thoy
call ideas “iders" and they pronowce law as “lawr"s ‘This chap went to Lowe and
11 to to purchase one of my basketballs and he said to the astonished clerk
that he wanted a * Allen Basketball, ‘The clerk looked at him and said,
*Fouregalion basketball? What do you mean?™ "Well", he said, “ieatt there @
man around here somewhere coaching basketball called *phore” Ajlen?®. oe
anwiher Snciee OF % Meine Venton premvaning ‘ieg" Allens:

This is one other interesting Stems temg doo Beisten free tlie
wrote Drs Neigmith wanting a coach in the very early days of the gamo. ‘Re -
inquired about the possibility of getting me to coach the Baker team, When
Dre Ha@mitth received this letter he met me in the hall and said, “I lave a
goed joke om you you bloody beggare" (He was Scotch Canadian) ‘was & 1i0Ge

worred and asked him what it was because I feared that Nehad foun! out, sonething
, that I might have been doone that was not according ty Hoyle, I sais, “What
is it, Dector?® and he said, “Well 1 just got a letter from Baker University
and they. want you to coach basketballs” I said, Well, what is funny about
that?® He revlied, “Why you can*t ecach basketball, you just play it.” Hore
was the originator of the game of basketball openly confessing that basketball
amu could not be coached, I said, “Well, you can teach thom to throw freee
throws, and you can teach them to pass et angles and run in curvese” So it
was thet I received the first shovk from the orighator of te basketball ©
confessing that basketball sannot be coached, and yet I have hanging in my
office a photograph of Dre Naismith with the vollowing autographs "With
kindest rogards to tre Fe Ce Allen, the Father of Basketball Coaching from »
the father of the game", signed James Naismith, 19564 JI imagine Icovld —
justifiably ley claim xexkk to being one of the fathers of basketball coachings
You doubtless remember in my other letter I told you about fowding the Kansas

Relays.

Pe so a a ates thd ae es bn ds es
on November 18, 1885 and my how these Missourians dow at Columbia get on one
of our native sonsg. But I have chosen the University of Kansas as my Alma imter
- because I believe that Kansas is more progressive and a youmger state, You do
not heve to tell anybody about. thise a ee four
ERE TENS SRE DEE OF Shee Sore ReIP HOSS |

We are planning to leave Lawrence, cnand eabty titinien wieetad Ue O60
and it may. be impossivle for us to arrive in time for the dedication ceremonies | 3
of Kirk  Nenerial Bulldinge If it is at all possible, we will arrange to leave
early enough to arrive there at 10;00. I assure I would be happy to do so because
I mew President Kirk very very well. lmIrefereed my football games for Kirkeville
State Teachers College when Mr, Simmons was Athletic Aireotor, and I have the
pleasant memory of Mr. Kirk coming down the field many times and shaking hands with
- me when I referred those football games along in 1908 and 1910, He was a vigorous
and aggressive educator and I am. happy that — are recognizing his great worth