BRADY AVIATION SCHOOL, INC.
Curtis Field

BRADY, TEXAS

August 7th. 1941

Dr. Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Doc:

I have been wanting to write you for quite sometime now, but
just haven't gotten around to doing that. I presume you have been quite
busy as usual yourself with coaching schools, teaching summer school etc.

Another year is about to get under way and I know you are
really busy getting everyone lined up with school. I hope you will be able
to get a good crop of freshmen for future varsity material. You never need
to worry about that though because these young boys know where to go for good
teaching and coaching. I expect to follow the team's progress very closely
this winter and I feel you will hold your own against any of them. Will you
play the Oklahoma Aggies again this year? Beat the socks off of them Doc.

The Adjutant here at the field is an old coach from down
Mississippi way and he really speaks highly of you. He used your book
"Better Basket Ball" in his coaching and he thinks there is none better.
I run across a great number of men that have done likewise, or men that
have met you at various coaching schools and they certainly hold you in
the highest respect.

I am enjoying my work here at Curtis Field very much. We
have around two hundred aviation cadets here at the present time. We
expect to be operating full capacity very soon. We can handle three hundred
and fifty very nicely. These boys are the cream of the crop Doc. I have
boys that were outstanding athletes from all over the country. They come
from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, and from all of the
southern states. Quite an array of talent.

We expect to have a couple of pieces of your Goal Hi -
equipment one of these days. This field is far from being completed
as they have spent most of the time getting the field proper in shape
and haven't done any work on my athletic field. .However we have been
playing touch football, soccer, volley ball, badminton, base ball, boxing
tumbling and wrestling. I give the boy's fifteen minutes of stiff cal-
isthenics each class period. They are really physical specimens. We have
a very nice recreation hall fully equipped with most every kind of recreaticnal
games. '

We expect to have a large field house pretty soon. It will
be necessary for them to provide us indoor space in case of vad weather. It
doesn't get so very cold down here, but it wili ve cold enough ror us to be
inside at times.