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April 30, 1943.

wr. EB. &.
Basketball Coach,
Quake, Nebraska.

Dear Eddie:

First, I want to congratulate you on your enlisting in

your country’s service. I wish that I were young enough so thet Unele
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Goed luck to you in every ways |

Regarding muy exception thet I might have taken to your
statenent, it wes the part where you said “the N.C.A.A. Committee was
listening to Allen and leaving us out in the dark." I think your letter
wes unfora@mately phrased. The N.U.A.A. has never listened to me in the
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In one of your enclosed letters you state that “Allen
stated he would not compete this year", which wes correct. I made
identically the same statement last year and did not want to compete,
but the N.C.A.A. officials importumed our higher officials here, end
sleo, the members of our team desired to play. That put me in a very
enberrassing position of being against everybody, and I naturally could
not take that position. I cared nething for the N.C.A.A. the way they
Were Fisting the tournaeest, and so flatly stated.

Se I want you to imow that the only reason that I can
aderibe to their picking Kansas was the fact that they thought we would
draw them a better crowd in Kansas City than Creighton would. They had
as & besis of their reasoning the lowe State - Creighton game the ;
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sound logic.

ae low, snother reason wiy I think thay olixinated Oreighton
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two games this year. :

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of the other members of the committees would have picked Creighton this
year over Kensas if you had defeated us but one game. The Big Six has a
reasoning, whether faulty or not, that if any one team defeats the other |
regardless of location, that the defeated team is out. They even geo
further than that. Se cies cl Ee Gar tae Seana me ee
on the team having the better offensive-defensive ratio, as was done when
Towa State played and as was done last year when we played in place of