Byron Boyd, Editor Weekly In the Fall

161 W. Nine Mile Road
Detroit 20, Mich.

  

Oct. 17, 1944

Dre Forest C- Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Mre Allen:

I am in accord with you on your proposal that
college athletics should be governed by a "czar".
The situation as you see it cannot be met in any
other way, and if action is delayed, all of us who.
are interested in the welfare of the future of
college athletics may be sorry.

Under separate wrapper I am sending you my publication.
In the last issue is the story which you gave to the
United Press. I hope that it reaches enough of our
coaches to make them think! I can see thet our sports
program may suffer untold disgrace, if allowed to
drift as in the past.

If there is any way that I can help you further
your proposal and get it before our proper college
authorities, I shall be glad to cooperate.

It is my intention to publish a Gollegiate Sports
Weekly, covering all college athletics as soon as
conditions permit. With the interest in athletics
that I suspect will come upon the war's ending, such
@ paper could do much to bring about a closer unity
for our colleges. I feel sure that most of our colleges
will help in making such a publication possible, as many
have already written me about it. However, supplies and
transportation make such a move futile at this time.

Good luck to you in promoting your idea. May the
powers that be in our colleges work for a s&tisfattory
set-up for post-war athletics. I am not opposed to
seeing the boys paid for their activity, but it should be
above board and sanctioned by the authorities.

Very sincerely a5 o
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Byron Fe Boyd