December 29, 1943.

Mr. Harold A. Hoegiund,
Superintendent of Schools,
etchikan, Alaska.

Dear aetna Hoeglund:

I feel very guilty in not answering your good letter sooner,
but it came just before a football game with Missouri and since then
I have been out of town much on speaking dates and basketball games.

ae het ee I will state that if you would
write to the head of the A.A.U. at Denver, Colorado, Mr. Willard M.
I believe you could get the information you desire. He is head
of the souinal education department for the Denver Public Schools,
and I em sure a letter addressed to hin will give you all the inforn-
ation needed.

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‘These teams in the States are pretty tough. They are former
collegé players and most of them are recruited from older and taller
men, ag @ rule. I believe the only chance you would have with these
fellows would be by giving everything you had in the way of rigid
training and other cooperative measures. In other words, it would be
necessary to be better than those other fellows in physical condition-
ing by rwming their hearts out and hoping to beat them after that.

I certainly would like to see a team of your boys go to Denver
and glean up some of these high-powered independent teams. You will
understand none of them are high school teams but they are from an
older age group. If you could win it would be one of the sensations
of the century. 7

I was mighty happy to hear from you, and assure you that I do

remember you very well. Congratulations on your superintendency, _
ee ee ee ee

Sincerely yours,

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