THE CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS
OMAHA, NEBRASKA

 

E. S. HICKEY
HEAD COACH OF BASKETBALL

April 20, 1943

Dr. Forrest C. Allen

Basketball Coach

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas °

Dear "Doc:"

: _ I have your splendid letter of April
12 and greatly appreciate your thoughtfulness in re~
membering us after our upset in the East,

I am not eware of any "double talk,"
nor am I familiar with any statement credited to me
as would work to your disparagement. Much has been
said in many quarters with reference to the Fifth
District N.C.A.A. and their choice of teams during
the past two years. I can recall nothing that I have
said that I would not have said direct to you; nor  ~-
anything that did not reflect the true situation as I
have understood it.

I have appreciated your friendship and
especially your cooperation in our basketball program.
When we are able to resume play I hope that we may con-=
tinue our games.’ I am positive you have always found
our relations above board and the playing situations
such as reflected a thoroughly honest and sportsmanlike
attitude. I am sorry if any thing that I may have said
with reference to the N.C.A.A. may have been interpreted
as being detrimental to you. At the same time, I am
sure you are as familiar as I, with the fact, that one's
position may not always be correctly interpreted or re-
flected by others.

- There have been some public expressions
to the effect that Creighton "snubbed" the N.C.A.A. I
have tried to correct this wrong impression as much as
possible. It was suggested that the Fifth District's
choice this year reflected some feeling on the part of

the Committee against Creighton because we did not wait
for their bid. I hardly believe the Committee would
penalize other members of our Conference even if Creighton
was wrong. Nor do I feel that Creighton has been wrong

in any degree, ;