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January 31, 1940

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
Varsity Besketball Coach
University of Kensas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

I have started to write you several times but due to the
fact that I wasn't man enough to plow through the snow to
see your team in action against Missouri, it elmost makes
me feel ashamed of myself, thus my delay in writing to
you is explained.

I'm afraid the boys will think that I heve let them down)
as never before hes the weather kept me from keeping an
appointment such as I had planned with you months ahead.

From your play by play descrintion of the Kansas-Missouri
game, I can readily see that your team was not out-played
on the evening of January 18, but it was Missouri's night
and, therefore, I do not feel down hearted as the result
of their victory over the KU squad on that night. You
are right, you will give them a lesson on March l.

During the past few months I have witnessed several high
school basketball games in this vicinity and must frankly
state that the teams that I have seen vlay two or three
times during the current yeer are not showing their usual
improvement due to the fact that the coaches in these
parts have thrown away "“set-pleys" and in their place are
now using whet I believe you term es “fire truck" basket-
pall. dust last evening two of the nearby towns met in a
battle in which no defense prevailed jon either team nor
was there a "set-play" worked or even attempted.

Sone of this blame should be on the coaches I realize, be-
cause they do not seem to have adjusted themselves to the
new rules as readily es they should have. Perhaps in a
few years the coaches will have adjusted their style of
play to the rules, however, to one who is accustomed to a
high grade type of ball, the game will never be the same

until they do.