; Best Wishes for the New Year July 22, 1943. Ft. George G. Meade, Md. Dear Joe: I was pleased to get your good letter of the 17th instant I will nee it was a surprise, hearing from you at Fort George G. « Bobby was ee ee ee It would have a would it mot, and quite a happenstance, if in- stead of the roommte of of Bobby's that talked to you it could have been Bobby in person. é I am taking your letter hom so that firs, Allen and Eleanor may read it, ‘ak Sides toon, Allen will send it on to Bobby. Bob's address ie 3904 ee I am sure he would be happy to tear , ar from yous Atallah ‘hi ‘puch Wilan “wcuabs oanita “tial cues ws Wh fact that you have taken unto yourself a blushing bride. Of course that was quite some time past, but we should congratulate you on that because the young lady is doubtless the one who is keeping you on the straight and marrow path. Congratulations, too, on the ex pectant femily. I trust that Mrs. Giannangelo cets along well. Tt is always fraught with a degree of capabtation ang some dangers You asked about your outstanding player - whether I would like to have him, end the fact that he is an A student, and so forth. Well, Joe, you know that you live in a region where they give scholarships. And you know we do not give any. I have not changed my procedure one iota from the way I ran things when you were here. I do not say that a boy should not have some help, but many times ee ee Sens Se a ae eee in Gat renin with whet help they should receive. Yur youngest daughter, Eleanor, who was qt w eeckl civil tk you were here, will be married this fall to a University of Pennsyl- wee here tino? and Law Beiool grebante,, and they will live in Lansdowne, Pee So you see we are getting some of our children back in the keystons state, aren’t we? Wishing you continued suocess and a fine coaching career after the is over, I an : | Ps Sincerely y ours, ‘ Director of Physical Education, POAsAR Varsity Daskethball Coash. / FILE NO. ACV PRE-COMMISSIONING DETAIL SEATTLE -TACOMA SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION TACOMA, WASHINGTON 2 April 1943 Dr. F. C. Allen, Varsity Basket Ball Coach University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: With the Growning of Wyoming as Red Cross Champions last even- ing it appears that the 1942-43 basket ball season is a closed book. Undoubtedly, the "NCAA Money Changers" regret it too. It was a pleasure to watch the box scores of your games again this year. Mrs. Allen writes that John Buescher had a good season, and did especially well when you were pressed for talent in your last Oklahoma game, You have certainly-spent a great deal of time on and off the coubt for John, and I trust he appreciates your efforts, | During this past season I have been following the University of Washington's team as I am only thtrty-five miles from Seattle. They were a great team all season until the Draft Board upset the mental attitude of the Players not to mention the drafting of the team's Captain. Any team that can double the score on the famed Harlem Globe Trotters you know must have had somee. thinge It hardly seems possitle that three years ago we were together battling the cream of the country with a great gang of fighting Jayhawks. I still am extremely proud of my wrest watch, and wear it daily, and needless to say it has won a Place for me in many a person's heart without knowing them too welle I trust you are enjoying the best of health after a successful seasone On can har@ly extend congratulations to you anymore since the Big Six Championship is getting ey" a habit for you it seems, However, I for one know how hard t work to-keep this fine record in tact, Kindest regards, and best wishes to your squad when you see them. --The Score Card-- Salute to Dutch Lonborg BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. A SALUTE to Dutch Lonborg and his five rawhide kids for landing Northwestern third in the Western Con- ference basketball race. That’s the best a team could do, which didn’t play Indiana and with the Illinois’ “Whiz Kids” off in a class by themselves. Northwestern never had more than one capable reserve, after George Felt was lost early in the season. And for the second Illinois game it didn’t even have Ronnie Schumacher, that one capable reserve. So depleted was North- western’s ‘manpower for that game, that 24 hours before the whistle, Lonborg had to call out Ray Vincent, a tackle who had passed up basketball this winter. So over the season it was Otto Graham, Russ Wend- land, Bud Hasse, Nick Vodick and Bobby Jake, who goes to the Army tomorrow, who went most of the route. 3 There’s a special salute for Bud Hasse, the balding senior. Over three Seasons, Hasse played forward, center and guard and never gave anything but his best. “He’s a coach’s player,” said ha hei ht age Lonborg by way of farewell to Hasse and Lynn Waldorf could offer the same praise for Bud’s three years at end on Purple elevens. Cool and crafty, it was Hasse who often rallied Northwestern to a victory. For the second season, Otto Graham was No. 2 among Big Ten ! scorers. His 189 points was a new 12-game record for Northwestern | players, breaking Joe Reiff’s 167 which was good enough to top the: conference sharpshooters in 1933. Graham’s total was better than the old conference record made by Chuck Carney of Illinois, but that mark already was long gone under the firing of Andy Phillip. In some respects, Nick Vodick was the outstanding sophomore player of the Big Ten season. At the start, Vodick had little but strength and enthusiasm. As one scout remarked, along in January,. “Vodick is a great player so long as he doesn’t have the ball.” But at the finish, Nick had developed into a smooth workman and was rapidly becoming a crack shot. Lacking height, Nick played center at a disadvantage but has the makings of a great forward or guard if Pe to compete his remaining two seasons. x * & : There’ s an extra salute to little Bobby Jake, the “Whang Leather Kid,’ who never missed a game although he played with a broken nose, blackened eyes and a lacerated scalp and lip. The Army’s getting a scrapper in that boy. There’s also a salute for Ronnie Schumacher, that one capable reserve, who picked himself off the floor to make a last-second basket that defeated Iowa and made third place possible. And there were few better guards than Russ Wend- Jand, whose “hot nights” meant several victories. They didn’t have much height or any great speed but they had plenty of EEE, those Northwestern third placers. a * % He’s a great coach, the Dutchman. In 16 seasons at North- western he’s finished out of the top five in the conference only three times. His teams have finished one-two-three eight times and fourth five years. Twice they were champions. Yet except for Joe Reiff, Frank Marshall and Otto Graham, Lonborg never has had any really great players. He took ordinary material and made it good by sound coaching tactics and the loyalty of his men. Seldom does a former Northwestern basketball player visit the campus but what he winds up in front of the Lonborg fire- place or at the dinner table. © / It would be nice to see Lonborg with material. The sort he had in the days of Reiff, Marshall, Bus Johnson and Bert Reil or the sort you now find at Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. The alumni don’t do right by Lonborg. Too often, lately, he’s had to build his team around boys who also were football players, Graham, Hasse, Vodick, Clawson, Benson and Kruger, to name a few. That situation alone gives most other conference teams an advantage of a month or so practice at the start of a season. There’s no use mentioning the lack ofa fieldhouse which is another handicap. But Lonborg never complains. He just takes what he gets, practices here or there and welds first-division teams. If the alumni ever complain about Lonborg, Northwestern should fire the alumni. Re ai : f THE EVENING STORY: BANK NIGHT. aes Sarah Mae Gives the Lie to that Gag About | Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks # BY STEW KASER. OBODY here in Haywell could figure out why Aunt Sarah Mae ‘wanted $25. She has that little cottage over by the tracks and her son, Port, who has a job carpenter- ing over on the new defense job at Burlington, sends-her money every two weeks. And after all, when yyou’re 72 years old, you can get along on darn little. But Aunt Sarah Mae wanted $25. And she was willing to do. any- thing within the limits of her im- agination and the morals of the Methodist Church to get it. She was even willing to go to a movie. That doesn’t’ sound like much, but that’s because you don’t know Aunt Sarah Mae. She was 70 years old when she saw her first movie, and she had to be tricked into it at that. She declared up and down shat she wasn’t going to pay good noney to see a lot of shadows on a screen. Of course, even people.that io like movies don’t get much chance to see them in Haywell. It’s 00 small for a regular movie house, yut in the summer there’s an out- Joor movie every Friday night in the lot between the bank and my general store. Well, Port was home for the weekend, and he was bound and determined to get Aunt Sarah Mae to that movie. She didn’t suspect anything—just thought they’ were going downtown for ice cream, I guess. Whenever Port came home ‘she got just as excited as a school- girl with her first beau. So down the street they came, she on his arm. They were just about to walk /past the movie place, when all of ja sudden he just steered ‘her in there and sat her down. GUESS she thought too mueh of Port to make a fuss right there’ in front of everybody, because she just sat perfectly still and looked straight ahead for the whole time. It wasn’t until after the show, and they started the bank night business that she showed any signs of life at all. But my, how she perked up then! She got real flustered and grabbed Port by the arm. “You mean they give away $25 here every Friday night?” she asked. “Sure, Ma,” he answered, “That’s why they call it ‘bank night.’” . You can imagine everybody’s sur- prise when she walked in next week all by herself. Aunt Sarah | Mae, the person who swore you’d ‘|never get her to see a movie. There was dead silence for a second, and then the whispering swept over the crowd like wind over a wheat field. Of course they didn’t draw her | name, but she kept right on com- — ing, week after week. Folks just © couldn’t figure out why she was willing to go through such torture ‘ just for a small amount of money ~ like that, “Why don’t you try moving, pianos, or digging ditches to earn. $25, if you want it so bad?” I asked» once. “It seems to me that would be less trouble to you than sitting through those movies once every - week.” Well, sir, she didn’t say . anything at all. Just smiled a funny little secret smile. I don’t think it — would have bothered me a bit if it. - hadn’t been for that smile. There was something so young, and ,.. sort of . . . adventurous about it that I never could get used to see~ ing it on the face of a 72-year-old woman. Ce night the excitement really. > ‘broke loose because Aunt Sarah Mae’s number won the $25 prize- money. Of course everybody got real ex= _ cited—almost as excited as I was, I guess. The only one in the whole crowd that seemed to have any wits left was Aunt Sarah Mae. She just marched up there, as proud as punch with a great big smile and ~ her head held: high. Fred handed her the money without a word. “Thank you,” she said. Then she turned around and swept out of there like a ship in full sail; out the entrance, and down the street. This morning when she came into my store I said, “Well, I guess now that you got the money you won’t be coming to the movies any more, seeing you hate them so.” “Hate them?” she answered, “Lord love you, Jeff, whatever gave you that idea?” ’ “T thought you just wanted the money.” a “Of course I wanted the money, . you old fool. But I’m going to . take that money, and we’re going to go to Burlington, Port and me, and spend every bit of it going to every consarned big indoor movie. palace they’ve got. I’m crazy abouk movies!” Well . . . that’s women for you. At least, that’s Aunt Sarah Mae, Copyright, 1943, The Chicago Daily News, Inc. , Tomorrow: A soldier fights one battle and wins two in “Fear Is a Ladder,” by J. Joseph O’Donnell. D- February 4, 1943. Myre. Alice Ko. Griffith, fhe Athletic Journal, 6858 Glenwood Ave., Chicago, Ill. Dear Mre. Griffiths I heve endeavored to write this as interestingly as I could make it. You may went some illustrations or diagrams, but I do not mow what space you will be able to give it so I will just have to turn it over to you and let you do the best you can under the conditions. I trust that Director of Physical Education, POA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. Enc o JOHN L. GRIFFITH, EDITOR TELEPHONE ROGERS PARK 5074 THE ATHLETIC JOURNAL 6858 GLENWOOD AVENUE CHICAGO, ILL. January 19, 1943 Dr. Forrest Allen Basketball Coach University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: It has been some time since I bothered you, but I am back full time on the Athletic Journal, pinch hitting for John, Jr. while he serves in the navy. We have been devoting most of our space this fall to the kind of athletics the army and navy want, and, therefore, have digressed from | technique. We, however, want to return to the technique, since our se- ries of combat articles are about finished. I have this idea. Do you think it is a good one? Run a symposium written by the eight coaches whose teams took part in the N. ©. A. A. play-offs and final game last year, not a write-up of the tournament, but have each coach discuss his style of offense or defense as he may prefer, such as the "Conservative Fast Break" of Stanford, so designated by Everett Dean, the "Rotating Offense" of Colorado, the"Shoot and Run Offense" of Rice and the "Dribbling - Emphasized Offense" of Kentucky. You may think you have written so much for us that you haven't any- thing new to pass on, but an old offense with a new "catchy" name will do the trick. At any rate you must have something that others haven't to stay at the top of the "pack" year in and year out, for these many years. Please don't think I am insinuating you are an oldtimer, but you.were one of the first to write articles for us and I have been read- ing copy now for twenty-three years. I am enclosing a special delivery addressed envelope, asking you to advise me, by return mail, if you can write the short article within a few days. I won't be able to pay as much as in the past for these short articles, as our advertising is down very low, but we are strug- gling to keep the magazine alive, as long as John and I live, as it is a sort of much beloved child with both of us. Yours very truly, tf AKG: MA a Ke A e Ay arnaal AND A MOVING SCREMH. ‘Porrest C. Allen, Basketball Coach ee Offense the title of the Kansas offensive signifies an offensive roll or grapevine dom the floor with the men passing at angles and running in curves, interspersing a pivot only when the offensive man is confronted with a defens- is only for the purpose of ensbling the player to break in the open so that he may pass. The dribble is on individual play, consequently paseing should be resorted to whenever possible. ‘hen a player passes to a teammate in an unguarded position and the passer aut —— tus play is mown as the perfect offensive play. Passing and cutting are encouraged more in the passing gane than they are in the dribbling game. In the passing game the opponents are faced with many more passing angles to overcome then in the dribbling game. When the dribbie is used we teach the low dribble for security. when an offensive player is in danger of losing the ball to an opponent we teach Ze travels a great distens ‘4¢ 4s on easy matter for the opponents to break up the play. ‘The short pass is the more efficient because your team is kept to- defensive mit. see the reason that we do not permit a player to dribble the ball closer to the side line is the possibility that the player may fumble or have the foot margin it ia possible for the player to recover and re-play the ball. etn, ‘teien on tet, ar te an ene. th meeee Sabe teen: then Ces Katte opponents equal our offensive threat. However, we do put pressure on the opponents when we start as if we are going to fast break, and we always go aroas of the basket unguarded at this moment we will thrust at the basket. seven foot aren to the left of the basket, and the seven foot area to the right of the basket. If the defensive guards drop back flat, that is, each guard in his accustomed position, and no one is to cover the area in front of If eny one of these areas is open we will drive, pass and pivot to off to the side and pass beok to ons of the guards. The quarterback at this jumeture will say, “Set ‘an up", and all our offensive players will move into @ set position. The forwards will set themmelves in their respective corners will be in the offensive end of the court eight feet in front of the division signal, by word of mouth or gesture, the quarterback will call a play ani the entire teem will start in motion. e now start a game of basketball checkers. By quick sharp movenents one of the offensive players will move t « position that will permit him to screen off an opponent. The ball is passed quickly an effennive slayer wil merge 0 half s step ahead of die egpement. It is end in this way the player will be free enough for a cut toward the goal. When we are fast breaking we have a simple rule to follow: We draw six feet from each side line. If» player/is nearer the side line he dribbles or passes forward at a forty-five degree angle toward the center of the court to « temamte who is going down the center imginary line. ‘hen the player in the conter of the court has the ball he dribbles or passes out to the left or -five behind the tesmmnte to whom he passes. In this way the players pass at angles 1% fn not on easy thing to tench perfent tining and perfest parsing, but it is something thet «11 of us can aim at, and in this way we om clearly a improve basketball offensive play. We use a great mmber of pass-outs when we resever the bail on our offensive backboard. it is perfectly obvious that the defense will flatten itself around the basket when the ball is passed in toward the basket. Therefore, with « good system of recoveries and passing out it is principle. It is a strate of mn for men and a strata of sone, and there is & transition from one to the other depending upon the pley situation. When two offensive nen start « screening play on our players we ewiteh, slide or trade opponents, which is exactly the principle the professionals play. te the defense. men to guerd and play those men until a screen by the opponents is attempted. Tt ie then that the player calis to his teammate, “Switch”, and our men take Personally I have been unable to see the reason for the objection of ony conch to © sine or mn te nm defense. Most teams awiteh from one to the other as the occasion demands. In football some sosches use a sone defense at times, and others use a man to man. He football coach objects to the other football coach using a certain type of defense, so why should « basketball eoach object to a defense used by a particular basketball coach. ‘The reason able to find paths that they can work through on a set defense. ‘There are Osteber 14, 1942. Myre. Laure Glidden Gray, Spirit Lake, Idaho. = Dear Mrs. Grays I am happy te enclese a letter ef recommendation for you ta the Commanding Officer ef the Farragut Training Station. I trust you will be sudcessful in your quest. _ Tt eam alse sending to Fred Ellsworth the clipping re- garding Colonel Renald Walker. I em very sure that you had a great time recounting your undergraduate days at the University. I em sure that Fred Ellswerth will be happy te hear from youe : With all geod wishes, I an Sincerely yours, Director ef Physical Education, PCA :AH Varsity Basketball Coache Commanding Officer, Parragut Training station, Farragut, Tdehe. My dear Sir: I am very happy te recemend Mrs. tasira|G1taaeh Gray, ‘a young woman with excellent training here at University ef Kensas, for your consideration as roerptionts¥ : ‘agin ug directer for the Navy recruits. Bet K { | I Miss Glidden graduated in 1926. She was sesiiley| ef her senier class at the University, and was alee Henerary Colenel ef the University R.O.T.C. She was a leader in many extracurricular activities and made a fine recerd. \ Sines her graduation che has doce excellent work in the field of physical education on the west coast. She Pn. sak 3s oy eee Wd fe sel ots kind. I am happy te recemuend her te yous Sincerely yours, August 27, 1945. it. Me P. Getto, a. —— Lewirenoe, Deax Mike: Conderning our conversation the other evening regarding the little fellow with the I am enclosing a copy of a statement alleged to have been made by Ben Pranklin in 1786. You may have this for your permanent record to show that fellow who wanted you to pay for his bowl of soup. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, POA:AH ! Wersi+y Basketball Coach. OTS 6 ae U.S.MARINE CORPS © x AIR STATION * CHERRY POINT,N.C. ae ee aS a a ee RS RR oS AE Sea G RE ae May 7, 1945. lst Lt. M. FP. Griffin, USMOR 16 AVS, 23 ROC, "A" Barracks, , M. B. Quantico, Virginia. ee Dear Mel: Iwas delighted to have your good letter of April 17 and I am hastening to reply. I was pleased beyond measure that you won first place with the .45 and that you won the “expert” rifle medal. I am not surprised, however, because I have always observed that when you went into anything you went into it with your heart and soul. i, too, am pleased and proud that you are a Marine. There are none better than the Marines, and everybody knows it - and the Marines know it and they show it to other people with their efficiensy and I em glad that Virginia is much better. Give her the Allen's love when you write. a Mel, Tf am sending you a copy ofa letter that gives the dope on the basketball team. Each month I an trying to get a little note to send to the boys whose addresses I have. I am going to put you on my list so that you should get aother letter a month from now. It will keep you informed on ths doings of our athletes. Many of these, of course, you are unacquainted with only through the press. Rut the write up on the basketball tea. may prove interesting to you. If you know of other "K" boys in the service that are not included in this list, give me their names and addresses, will you, and I will put then on the mailing list. : Mrs. Allen will be delighted to know about Virginia's gain. And she was always very, very fond of you. Jo we are all pulling for you, fellow, one hundred per cent. | Good luck and best wishes from your aineers friend, Director of Physical Education, PCA:AH | _ Varsity Basketball Coach. | ADDRESS REPLIES TO COMMANDING OFFICER NOT TO INDIVIDUALS HEADQUARTERS TECHNICAL SCHOOL ARMY AIR FORCES TECHNICAL TRAINING COMMAND IC/2 Grand Rapids, Michigan June 2, 1943 Dr. ¥F. GC. Ailen Director of Physical Education Lawrence, Kansas Dear Sir: James W. Green is being considered for a position of trust and confidence, As you can appreciate, it is necessary to exercise great care in the selection of personnel. Your name has been given to us as reference, It would be most helpful to us to have your general estimate of his Loyalty, Integrity, Judgment and Discretion. On the enclosed form you will find twelve questions to facilitate your early reply. Any information which you might give in this investigation will be regarded as confidential and will be sincerely appreciated, Enclosed is a penalty envelope, for which no postage is necessary for your reply. Very truly yours, G. EDWIN Major, MI 2 Incts, S-2 Officer Incl 1 - Questionnaire Incl 2 - Return Envelope CLASS OF 1943 “i? CHESTER CG. GIBBENS, JR. LIEUTENANT, AIR CORPS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES The Class i 1943-B Army Mee Fomses Ofbeee Osadidate Schwa Miaws Beach, Florida announces the Giadastion mil Commissioning of the cuba of tie class as Siena bicetcinnie in the Aur Corps Army of the Unued States April 8, 1943. Hr. tie Gubar, 1557 Temmessee St., Lewrense, KF ansae. Dear Mike: i eellied is: Wek Oe he dt dey int yen td & piece regarding Henry Shenk, ~— thet when Elbel left Shenk was obtained. As director of the department, I engaged Shenk during Elbelts tenure here. He was here one full year be~ fore Elbel left. We did not get him on acfount of Elbel's leaving, but rather on aceount of the fine work that he could render. This makes Shenk'’s third year here. Saving played versity football here and being a graduate of our department, we desired to use his fine talents here in the Physical Bducation Department, I just wanted to give you the correst data on Henry Shenk so that the next time you write regarding him you will be better informed. Eth all good wishes, I an Sincerely yours, : Director of Physical Education, PCA:AH ; Nexakty Basketball Coach. April 2, 1943. Mr. Ronald J. Gibbe, Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., 1601 8. Phillips Ave., Springfield, Illinois. Dear Roneld: IT have intended te write you for several weeks to tell you that we were pleased indeed to. have you in the games that you worked for us this years I perfectly understood why it was not possible for you to get to Omaha. Anyhow, we had but one of the regulars playing in that game, and we tock but eight men to Omaha as Unole Sam had cleaned out the rest of our 24 men before that game. All we tried to do was hold the seore down at Omaha, and I did not worry one iota about it because we could not have beaten thém with a lead pencil with eur substitutes in there. However, I do thank you for your explanation and trust that the world is good to you in the futures. Sincerely yours, : Director of Physical Education, PCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. 2 oe <3 oe me Gwen anes oe aren March 4, 19435 he s Eilers Washington University St. Louis, Missouri Dear Artie; When I returned from St. Louis, Tuesday night I received a wire from our Minneapolis Office stating that = superintendent was planning to come to Springfield, Friday morning with some Government men, and it was important that I be here. I immediately got busy to see if something couldn't be worked out whereby they coul eee this visit until Mondey. I worked on this all Wednesday morning, ard thepe was shine that I could poe aey do as these Government ad to be here sometime this week as they had made other plans for next week. rege I thoucht I could make plane connections so as to get back to Springfield by Priday morning, but found that there was no possible way that I could be in Omaha, Thursday night and be here in Sprinzfield, Priday morning. I had been looking forward to working this particular game, and I)was very disappointed that I had to send such a wire. I sincerely hope that you were able to make satisfactory arrancements, and got someone agreeable to both teams. If you were put to any additional expense let me know. Kind personal recards. Very truly yours,