HEADQUARTERS SELMAN FIELD
MONROE, LOUISIANA

15 January 195

Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Director of Basketball
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr, Allen:

I thought you might be interested in hearing about
one of your boys, Otto Schnellbacker. He has just left our
field to enter Bombardier's School but while he was here he
did a fine job as a soldier and as an athlete,

He was the outstanding boy on our football team this
year, His defensive end play and his pass catching ability
was the best any of us have ever seen around here. He played
the last five ball games we had and made the all~opponent
team of each of the five clubs, In addition to that he made
the first team of the all-sovthern service team, a real honor
when one realizes how many service teams played football in
the south last season, .

Because of his duties, we had Schnellbacker just
for our last four basketball games, He was the big factor in
winning all four, averaging 22 points per game against pretty
fair opposition. Now that he has gone, things will be rough.
While he was here, I really looked like a good coach.

This boy is a real credit to the University of Kansas
and the coaching staff. He was well liked and was a credit to
the service, the post, and Selmants athletic teams, We are

sorry that he has left Selman Field.

Sincerely yours,

Lad J eu

FRED G. HEINLEN
Capt., Air Coros
Asst. 0.I1.C. Phys. Trng.