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SHREVEPORT, LA.

1o%-4 Gommerciel Building
February 5, 1945
Mr. Forrest ©. Allen, :
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear "Doc",

- It mekes me proud to read about "Phog" Allen and his
fight for college basketball. I hope that the whole set-up of
college athletics is put under the spotlight of public opinion
along with basketball. For the past ten or more years it has
seemed to me like college athletics has gradually been taken
away from the ordinary college students. If you have started
something that cleans up the situation, you will have given in-
estimable service to boys who like to play for fun,

I feel reasonably sure now that Duke is going to come
to K.U. at the bp agg of the fall session. He won't be 18
until April of 1946, so he may get in a full year of college
work,

I just don't know how good Duke is in football, but
his coach at Sewanee Mylitary Academy told me that he is college
material. The University of Tennessee Athletic Department has
contacted him, so some one must have recommended him to then.
Since Duke may get only one year of college athletics, I would
like to send himup before school starts, if football practice
starts then,

I am getting him some Beta dates, but would also like
to have him meet two or three other fraternities. I would par-
ticularly like to have the Phi Psis, Sigma Chis and Phi Deltas
give him a looking over. Outside of the Betas, he has no frater-
nity contactsat K. U. If he could get some dates with other
fraternities, I would appreciate it, and it would help in getting
him to definitely decide on Kansas. I would not hesitate to write
Lawrence Woodruff, if it is in any way embarrassing to you.

Looks like you are up to form again with your basket-
ball team. I hope that I will get to see you more often in the
next few years. Thanks for the "Jayhawk Rebounds", Most of the
names are too recent for me but I enjoy reading it just the same.
It is a fine thing for you to do for the boys in the service.

Sincerely yours,

Narold ¢. kdurt

HAB/f Harold A. Burt