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September 1, 1944.

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Training Progran,

AsTeBe - Camp Bradford,
N.O.B. =~ Norfolk 11, Va.

Dear Bill:

I was delighted to hear from you. We mailed the last Jay-
hawk Rebounds to your Philadelphia address, and from there it traveled
to Northwestern, to Asbury Park, and other places and finally came back —
here. So you see we tried to send you one. I am just ready to write a
new Rebounds, but am sending you the last one so that you can read it
before you get the new one.

 

- You mention meeting Bob Kenney from Duke. No, Bill, he was
from Rice. You remember Mary Thompson, from Waterville, - “Little Se
Tommie" ~ was his girl. oa

You will get most of the news in the Rebounds, but since
you especially ask about some of the boys I will give you their
addresses here. Otto Schnellbacher is with Group II, Class 44-12-44,
Hondo, Texas. Charlie Black has just shipped out, and the address we
have for him at present is - Lt. Charles B. Black, APO 16400, P.T. 14, |
New York, N.Y. Lt. Ray Evans is with the Army Air Corps Ground Crew
at Colorado Springs, Colorado; Sparky McSpadden is still with the Vel2
here at the University, and John Buescher is with the Dow Chemical
Company, of Midland, Michigan. I saw George Kirchoff, his father-in-
law, today and he told me that John is going out to Colorado for a week. —
Ada K. has been there all summer. And then John is going on the road ~
to sell plastics. I'm not sure that Dow will have a basketball team
this winter. Ev Shelton, who coached them last year, is at Wyoming.

 

We have had no address from John Short since he went to St.
Cloud, Minn., for training, and our mailing address for Max Kissell is
not up to date. He stopped in the office during the summer after he
left Athens, Georgia, and we have had no word from him since that time.

We will give you the news of the football prospects in the
next Rebounds.

With best wishes, I am

Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education, |
_ FCA:AH a Varsity Basketball Coach.

 
 

 
 

 

 
 
 

 

 
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‘April 21, 1945.

Pvt. Mex Falkenstien,
Signal Ae We Det. No. 50,
Fresno, California.

Dear Max:

We are glad to have your post card rd as of Tuesday, sorta te We have
your new address and within the next w SORE AE AT RENOS HEE, Relmeete
and send it to you. | ae

I noted with great delight in the Journal World the wonderful record
you hade. I congratulated your good dad and now I —— you upon
_ exceptional —— |

Be careful of that sun tan wil will get in California. Don't you
know, Max, it is not supposed to burn out there? They have unusual
weather. It never rains, only occasionally, and when it does it is w-.
usual, And no one ever gets a sunburn out there, and when they do that
is unusual. That is the most outlying state in the Union - they out-lie —
everyone, out there!

8o don't lie too aie’ in one apot and you won't get sunburned.

With continued good wishes to you, I an. \

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PCA: AH | | Varsity Basketball Coash.

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THE SUN,

 

Phog Allen, Kansas Coach,
GAVE WARNING — Se es
ON GAMBLING

Declared Last Fall That Scan-
dal Was Likely To Occur

 

 

Lawrence, Kan., Feb. 17 (P)—
Phog Allen, who views with alarm
a lot more often than with ap-
proval, probably has the best
chance in sports history to say “I
told you so,” and he hasn’t mel-
lowed his strident voice a particle
in saying just that.

He wasn‘t popping off last fall:
he knew what he was talking about
in predicting a national basketball
betting scandal four months before
it erupted.

It’s for the good of the game that
he’s still sounding off, the Kansas
University basketball coach insists,
and he stands today, after the
scandal, just where he did before in
_ advocating a collegiate athletics

czar and a national housecleaning
of gambling that sill teeop +h. |
“fixers” away from the kids who
play the game.

Is Big Wind ne

There were ample grounds, how-
ever, for doubters to pooh-pooh Al-
len’s dire predictions last October.
The wind blows in gusts out here
on the Kansas plains and one of,the
reasons, claim his hecklers, is
breezy Phog Allen.

On a windy day mid-westerners
are apt to meet in the street, hold
their hats and greet each other
with the’ observation that Allen
must be riling up the air currents
again.

Lid Blows Off

And likely as not they’d be right.
Forrest C. Allen for years has fired
from the lip at things he didn’t
like in the sports realm. His critics
always said Phog was wrestling
with straw men just to get his
name in the headlines.

But the lid did blow off January
30 when five Brooklyn College boys.
told the prosecutor’s office they wa

 

accepted a $1,000 bribe to throw a
game scheduled with Akron Uni-|
versity in Boston. Two men were
indicted for giving the collegians|
a bribe. |
BALTIMORE, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1945 PAGE 7—0_

 

 

Insists Basketball Czar Will Help Sport

 
“These betting mobs are vicious,” |
Phog declares. “They don’t want!
to gamble; they want a sure thing.
And they have been getting it by
buying .off college boys who have
never seen big money. We’d better
treat those rats rough or they’ll
ruin intercollegiate athletics. |

“We need a czar over all college|
athletics who can track down these |
rodents and put a stop to the filthy |
business. Gamblers infest the east-|
ern arenas, but the same condition |
exists on a smaller scale out here}
in the west.

Can Reach Boys

“Maybe those people who were
lamenting about my lack of faith
in college boys will believe me now. |
They don’t know me very well if|
they think I don’t understand boys.!
I’ve had boys on my teams who
could have: been ‘reached’ under
the right conditions. An’ athlete
sees coaches drawing down big
money and athletic associations
raking in the coin. It’s big business
for those who control it and the col-
lege boy gets nothing for playing.

“The National Collegiate Ath-
letic Association should have tak-
en the lead in hiring a man of
the caliber of J. Edgar Hoover or
General MacArthur to rule inter-
collegiate sports. There are other,
evils threatening amateur sports
besides gambling. And greed is at.
the bottom of it all. -

Lack Protection

“But the N.C.A.A. talked in para-|
bles and platitudes. All was well |
with the world, they said. They
made plans for the national tourna-|
ment in Madison Square Garden|
where gamblers are thick as bees
in a clover patch. They will hold
it there again this season starting |
with the Eastern semi-finals,
March 22. I haveino argument
against it except that they aren’t
ong the game the protection it!

eeds.

“Many of those who are deplor-
ing this expose of bribery should
be glad it happened. It will bring
this thing out in the open where
it belongs and where I tried to put
it last fall.

“I. feel sorry for those college
boys in Brooklyn. Much of the
blame for their wrong-doings rests
on other shoulders.”

 
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October 19, 1944.

Professor John Ferguson,
University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, Pa.

Baer Yaris

: Thenke for your letter and your word of :
greeting. Tt is elways fine to hear from old friends
like Pergie.

Things are going along unusually well here, son~
sidering that we have a tough war on.

With all good wishes to you, I am

Fraternally,

Director of Physical Education, :
PGA:Ail Varsity Basketball Coach.
‘it Will B Have To Be Golden’— —

Allen Warns Colleges F eels
Post-War Athletic Scandal

LAWRENCE, Kan., Oct. 13 (UP)—Dr. Forest C.
(Phog) Allen, basketball mentor at the University of

Kansas and self-styled sage

of middle-western coaches,

‘suggested today that colleges employ a national high
‘commissioner to rule in the manner of Judge Kenesaw M. |

 

Landis in baseball to “save the de-*
cency of collegiate athletics after
the war.”

college athletics,
said that unless
such an office
‘was created
there would be
a post-war
scandal in foot-
ball and basket-
bal that would
|overshadow any
similar incident
since baseball’s
‘*Blacksox’’ ‘
World. Series ee
ideal of 1919. Phog Allen

Allen, whose cage teams are prac-
tically the perennial champions of
ithe Big Six, predicted a post-war
golden age of sports.

“It will have to be golden,” he
said. “There won’t be enough silver
to hire the big boys.”

Recommends Commissioner

| Allen suggested that “college ad-
ministrators should see to it that
the office of the President of the
United States should nominate the
commissioner. .

“Something is going to happen,”
he said. “If educational institutions
are efficient, they will set up some
machinery that will protect them
from a national scandal. As sure as
| you live, the thing is going to crack

 

wide open sometime when they. ie
bare an incident where some group
of college boys have thrown a game
for a tidy sum. That will happen
because there is more money being
bet on football and _ basketball
games in America today, than is bet
on all the horse races being run.”

Allen said “the fellows who run
the Amateur Athletic Union should

invite the highly proficient base- |
ball and football executives into}

their fold to teach them how to
run their professional athletics.”

College Heads Confess Danger

The Jayhawker coach pointed}

Out that the American Association

of University and College Presi-|
dents has failed to do anything}

about athletics from a post-war
angle except to acknowledge that
they have gone professional.

“Now,” he’ said, ‘the scramble
is on to get big game name coaches
to man the guns and fill the stadia
to dripping capacity. They will be
out after the returning stars, when
they doff their uniforms and cam-
paign ribbons and will use the
GI Bill of Rights to help them lure
the boys into the fold.

Along with the Government
money they (the coaches and
schools) will be offering bonus
dough for playing on their par-
ticular team.

Allen said he had no objection
to scholarships, openly arrived at

land lived up to.

“But what we are facing today,”
he said, ‘is that some schools pay

1$45 a month, some $75, some pay

(on up.
‘stabilize things and this hypocrisy
is practiced now would be

board and room, tuition, books and
A cOmmissioner would

that
dealt with summarily.”

 
 

   

Ostober 9,

Mr. Rudy Fuhm,
1925 Rhode Island St.,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Rudy:

As I promised you, bai Geting yee 0 deghek
Rebounds. If you would like other back copies, of which we
have only a few, I will be glad to
ee ae list.

from Tulea. Hope the

Sinserely yours,

| ae ' Director of Physical Education,
FCAAH 2 Varsity Basketball Coach.
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December 12, 1944.

Mr. Rey Pe Prench, Coach,
William Chrisman High School,
Independence, Missouri.
Dear Ray:

Thank you for sending the check for my expenses, and
also clippings from the Examiner.

I enjoyed my visit in Independence, and assure you it
was a pleasure to be there.

With all good wishes, I an

f

Sincerely yours,

ee Director of Physieal Education,
PCAs AH Varsity Basketball Coach. |

 
FETE BEAR SQUAD
~ WITH A BANQUET

Eighty-Seven Chrisman Foot-

| ball Players Hear Dr. F. C.
Allen of K. U. Speak at
Auditorium Last Night

_ “The secret of success is hard
_ work,” Dr. F. C. Allen of Kansas
University, told the large group of
‘young men present at the 1944
| William Chrisman High School
football banquet held in the Raurel
‘Club dining room of the L. D. S.
Auditorium, Wednesday night.

The banquet honored this year’s
successful -Bear football squad,
which chalked up seven victories
and one tie out of ten games dur-
ing the season. In addition to the
eighty-seven members of the
/squad who had worked under Ray |
| French throughout his first season |
| as head coach at Chrisman, many
dads of the players and other sup-
porters of Chrisman football were
.present at the affair.

“There is something in the dem-.
_ocratic spirit that makes men
‘fight, ” Dr. Allen continued. “It is:
' that spirit that is driving the!
‘American boys who are smashing |
,forward in the Ruhr and they ac-
. quired it on the athletic fields of |
; America.” : |
Dr. Allen also showed how les-|
sons learned in such competition
are useful in peacetime activities |
as well as in time of conflict when
| he pointed out that “Your mistakes
| beat you. You.learn in athletics |
/not to make mistakes again. This
|principle applies in business, in |
‘society, and in all other activities |
|of life.”

Frank W. Rucker presided as
toastmaster and presented the
| guests of honor, which included
John W. Luff, president of the
Board of Education; W. E. Mat-
thews, superintendent of Inde-
pendence schools; J. N. Hanthorn,
assistant superintendent; Carl D.
Gum, Chrisman principal; Homer
| Clements, superintendent of Jack-
‘son County schools, ane 3 a number
‘of others.

 

 

 
Those dads who were able to
attend were introduced by the
' players themselves, after which
Coach French presented letters to
twenty-five boys. Paul Nagel,
business manager; Richard Van|.
Dyke, junior manager, and Rich-
ard Redford, senior manager, also
were awarded letters.

Players who will wear letters |
for grid play during the past sea-
son are: Bill Bell, Lawrence Castle,
Johnnie Chrisman, Bob. Cramer,
Vernon Crump (co-captain), Cork
Daniels, Frankie Fenson, Dick
Green, Lawrence Fields, Larry
Hedden, Dean Holder, Bob Hughes,
Paul Lowry, Ralph Phillips, Lewis
Roberts, Paul Ruley, James Sad-
‘ler, James Sampson, John Speck, |
“Dale Street, Don Stonger, Fred)
Thompson (co-captain), Stu Tis-
dale, Bus Weatherford, Bill
‘Wright. : |

_ At the conclusion of Dr. Allen’s |
address, football pictures were
shown, including outstanding
scenes from top college football
games of past seasons.

 

 

 
Independence, Mo.

 

Big Little Stories
Picked Up in a
Day’s News Run

 

You should have seen the faces
of the Rev. and Mrs. Harold M.
Hunt when they were the cause
for a little fun at the Kiwanis
Club installation party Tuesday
night. The Rev. Mr. Hunt was
presented a “gift” from the club
for his splendid services as presi-
dent the past year. The gift was
beautifully encased in holiday
wrappings, and when Mrs. Hunt
began peeking through the wrap-
ping, Homer Clements, master of
ceremonies, called Buddy Childers
to her assistance in unwrapping
the package. It proved to be a set
of highly colored “Zombie” glasses.
As Buddy was trying to hold the
set up so all the club members
could see he dropped it. As it hit
the floor with a crash the glass-
ware went into a hundred pieces.
It was only when the “ohs” and
“ahs” that would naturally have
followed turned out to be bursts
of laughter that the retiring presi-
dent knew his comrades were
playing a final joke on him. The
“set” was from the “five and ten.”

 

It was a well-deserved tribute
to a grand coach which Dr. “Phog”
Allen received at the Chrisman
football banquet Wednesday night.
When Dr. Allen entered the room
and took his place at the head
table, the Chrisman football boys
joined as one in a mighty cheer
of “Yeah, Phog!” which nearly
raised the roof of the Auditorium.
One had only to look into the

 

eyes of Dr. Allen after this demon-
stration to understand just how
much he appreciated it.

 

Dr. Allen showed his artistry |

as a story teller toward the close
of his address, when he recounted
the tale of an uphill fight staged
by his Kansas Jayhawk basketball
team in winning the national inter-
collegiate cage play-off in Kansas
City a few years back. It had
been an uphill fight after a number
of early season defeats and the
final game of the play-off was with
Southern California. His story
of the contest was so real that
when the winning basket dropped
through the hoop in the last few
seconds the Chrisman athletes and
the older hearers as well heaved
a big sigh in unison very much
as they would have done if they
had actually been witnessing the
championship game itself.

 

 

Group singing at the banquet.

was lead by the Rev. Joseph A.
Houston. A number of those’ pres-
ent got quite a kick out of the
Reverend’s leading the group in
singing a song entitled, “You Can’t
Go to Heaven.”

 

The Rev. Mr. Houston left early
to attend the reception for the
new Presbyterian minister. As
he left he said, “I have been a
minister for eighteen years. All
that time I have been working to
beat hell and I am glad to have
some help, so I feel that I should
attend this affair and help wel-
come him.”

 

J.. C. Johnson, local cleaning
shop proprietor, asks a most sug-
gestive question, namely: “What
will be the value of the Independ-
ence Municipal Light Plant, when
the proposed Missouri Valley Au-
thority, as advocated by the presi-
dent, becomes a reality?

He says that he is watching the
trend of events with the view of
trying to procure a concession at
the light plant spray pond to
use it for a fish hatchery, when
the local plant is shut down.

A friend suggested that a com-
mercial frog farm might be more
profitable.

 

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WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH SCHOOL
ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT
INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI

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RAY F. FRENCH wis CARL D. GUM
Ath. Dir. and Coach os Principal

 

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December 8, 1944

Dear Dr. Alien,

I am inelosine a cheek for ycur expenses down
here on Wednesday night.

The boys and I certainly appreciste your eoming
and. feel we all gained a sreat deal from your talk.

I am wishing you lots of success during this
season and hope to see your team play.

Just thought you might like to have the clipprinzs
from the Examiner, sc am sending them, too.

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glad to place the names of Lt. Yordy and Lt. Baumgartner on
our

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Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Bducation,
Varsity Basketball Coach.

 
   

L. A. FULLER, PREs. W. W. FULLER, SEc.-TREAS.

   
 

  

 
 

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December 8, 1944

Dr. Fe C. Allen

Physical Education Department
' University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dre Allen;
Hope you can place on your Rebound mailing list;
Lt. (JG) J. F. Baumgartner
U.S.S. Harris
c/o Fleet Post Office
San Francisco, California

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Physical Education Department
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen;
Wonder if you would send the Rebounds to;

2nd Lt. Jason K. Yordy, 0866262
15th Bomber Maintenance Squadron
468 Bomber Group

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c/o Postmaster, New York City, N. Ye

I thoroughly enjoy reading these, in spite of the fact that am not
acquainted with any of the men and boys of wham you write. It is
certainly a great job that you are doing. May have another name to
give you later, Lt. Frank Baumgartner. Will have to give you his
address later. These boys graduated from the university about three
years agde

You made a quick getaway fran the alumni dinner the Wednesday evening
prior to the Thanksgiving game here. I tried to find you after dinner
to shake your hand but you evidently were just as busy as usual and
left immediately. I thought it excellent entertainment and enjoyed

. your part of it as well as every one of the others and I am extremely
allergic to speeches, so if I say it was good, it was good, as generally
I begin to squirm when anyone starts to make a speeche

Wishing you a successful basketball season and with very best regards,
I am

Cordially

W. W. Fuller

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