HAROLD M. HAUSER

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
DEAN BUILDING
MARION, KANSAS

August 25, 1938

Mr. Forrest Allen
University of Kansas Athletic Dept.
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Doe:

I am writing you in regard to the placement of a young
man who graduated from Marion High School this last
Spring. At the present writing, I have his consent to
attend the University if a job is available for him.

His name is Jim Ecker and, in my opinion, he is, without

a doubt, the potential outstanding athlete that Marion
High School has ever produced. I hesitate to recommend
any athlete for a job merely because he is an athlete and
have never before attempted to secure a placement for an
athlete at the University of Kansas but, under the circum-
stances, I am convinced that Jim Ecker has more possibil-
ities of becoming a great athlete than any high school
graduate I have ever known or have read about--notwith-
standing Ralph Miller of Chanute.

I can not be too affluant in my praise for this boy and
his ability as a basketball: player is unsurpassed as a
youngster capable of being trained. He plays the style
of game which you yourself would love to see and, as best
explained, he is rugged, tough and quick as a cat and this
is coupled with a remarkable eye for the basket in any
position. So much for his ability as a basketball player.

Now as a football player, he is a remarkable receiver of
passes; his offensive play is as well as can be expected
with the training he has had in blocking. What a good
coach could do with him would be marvelous, 1 am sure. His
defensive play is, likewise, qualified as good, under the
coaching he has had, and the remarkable thing about it is
that his development could be so positive that he could be
made one of the most outstanding ends Kansas has ever had.