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,

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