UNIVERSITY OF NEWARK

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
OFFICE OF THE DEAN

February 15, 1940

Dre Forrest Ce. Allen

Department of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Phog:

In a letter which I received from Mother this week, she included a clipping
from the Kansas City Star concerning your son Bobe The letter also mentioned
the excellent record which Milton had with you several years back. It certainly
must be a tremendous satisfaction for a father to read such splendid things
about his sonse Across the top of the article Mother wrote this comment about
Bobe “Such a splendid boy and en A student also."

Mother mentioned in her letter that you had called at their home to give Dad a
treatment in his recent difficulty. Apparently Mother thinks canned lobster
was the cause of the upset as on the list of food to be avoided is that item.
I guess I am truly my Father's son because I can't keep from eating things.
that I know are not good for me to eate However, Mother told me that Dad was
feeling much better again which, of course, makes me very happye Being so far
from Lawrence, I naturally worry when he is not feeling welle

Through the Journal World I have been following the success of your team, and
naturally I am most hopeful thet you win all the remaining games. Recently I
‘saw an article in one of our papers concerning you and intended to clip it out,

but I must admit that I was negligent. Our owm basketball team does rather
well when it stays within the limits of the North Jersey Intercollegiate League,
but when we poke our necks out with New York University and Long Islend Univer-
sity, we are considerably out of our class. This results in our being roundly
beatene However, our coach is a man in whom we have great confidences I like
his attitude, particularly concerning scholastic eligibility which somewhat
parallels yourse He feels that first of all his athletes must be good students,
and secondly they must be good basketball playerse Somewhat following your
line of thinking in asking for C averages from your players, he encourages any
of his men who are having difficulty with their studies to ease up on basket-
ball until their grades are in line. Of course, he is in an ideal spot because
there is absolutely no pressure from alunmi, students, or administration for
him to win most of his games.

Well, this has turned out to be a rather long letter rather than a short one.
Before I close, I want to say how sorry I was that I wasn't able to make a
contribution to the Phi Psi Christmas fund, but you can well wnderstand that