August S0, 1943.

Miss Ruth Krehbiel,
Corbin Hall,
- Lewrenee, Kansas.

Dear Ruth:

Last Priday night at a dimer party Chancellor
Malott mentioned to me that it wes his opinion we should
put some life and go in the Rock Chalk yell. We are
- dyagging it along . losing the fervor.
of the yelle :

+ jails aie atthe Ne Sak dies Sten tae eee
opens in the fall I would like to talkwith you. I believe
that I could help put something over that not only would
please the Chancellor but will be helpful in the yell. then
_ it is convenient, drop in to see me.

And by the way, I mentioned the fact to the
Chancellor that you had shown me the letter he wrote you,
congratulating you upon the “fraditions Day” program in
Fraser Theater this summer, Ue was pleased that you were
happy with the letter you received from him, .

Sincerely yours, -

: Director of Physical Education,
POA:AH. Varsity Basketball Coach.

 
 

August 19, 19435.

ist Lt. Clinton Kenaga,
VoSoMeCoRay

Bldge 16, &§ 0 Q,

U. Se Navel Hospital,
San Diego, California.

Dear Clint:

Your jumbo post card arrived, and what a whopper?
I took it home and showed it to Mrs. Allen and Eleanor

and they agreed that it was no white elephant.

The hospital is a beautiful place and I know that
you are enjoying your rest, which is deserved, of course.

I assure you I will keep an eye on Bill, but he
seems to be walking the straight and narrow as far as I
oan observe. He is a fine chap and you can count on uy
taking an interest in him.

ith all good wishes, I am

Sincerely yours,

Director of Physicel Education,
FCA :AH Varsity Basketball Coach.

 
 

May 10, 1943.

Capt. He Le Kirkpatrick, Me Cay :
Station Hospital, :
MoChord Pield, Wash.

Dear Doctor Kirkpatrick:

in the first part of your letter you say "Por some weeks I have
had some good intentions". Well, I will have to extend that and say for
some months I have had some good intentions, and one of those intentions
was to answer your letter promptly. But I have failed to do the very
thing I expected to do because we have had such en upset.
the University that the new regime has taken over most of our time. But
certainly we should not do any kicking when the boys in the service are
the ones who are carrying the load.

: Zt an sending you a mimeographed letter that we have written to
the “K" boys now in the services for whom we have addresses. We will put
you on our mailing list and count you as one of our very best "K" men be-
cause you have certainly rendered a lot of first aid to our athletics and
our "K" men. :

Charlie Black played a great ball game while he was in, but in
the early part of January he was taken #11 with pneumonia, the very next
day after the Great Lakes game. Iwas especially happy thet we were able
to beat both Oklahoma schools at Norman and Stillwater, and also at Lawr-
ence. When it is sonsidered that Black played but three of the ten Big
Six games it must have been a pretty cood ball club to have gone ahead
without some of the stars and still have not lost any games. This mimeo-
graphed letter will give you all the dope on the basketball season.

i am sorry that we didn’t get to play that gome of golf, but I
imagine that it wouldn't have been so hot anyhow but we would have had a
lot of fun. ; |

: Bob is still doing well at Pem. He is now embarked on his
Junior year and seems to be doing o.k. I believe he has a pretty good
chance to go until he finishes. He has a little better than a year of it
with en intensified course. However, they may not let him finish his in-
ternship. He may have to come back after the fuss is over to get that.

Henry Shenk is up at Lincoln, Nebraska, for the Big Six meet,
but. he only took four boys along with him, due to examinations. The
Chancellor is expecting to have football next fall, more from the income
that is obtained from the aotivity ticket than anything else. This will
‘pay interest on the stadium bonds, and I guess that is more important than

 
 

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anything else. Our football — are certainly not highly encouraging.

I do believe Missouri University wi ee a pretty tough outfit because ,

they have helped their boys along with the Navy set up in such a way that

Paurot will be tough for the ae dart that he faces. Iowa State will |
‘also be —- but I believe Kensas State will be about like we are.

I didn't think we would have basketball next year but now it
begins to look as if we may because if they play football they will
naturally play basketball. I don't have any of my boys left, and I
haven't thought enough of it to look into the possibilities. I don't.
ee te te toe Coon ok ee
a eo we will be just as strong as our enrolimmt

in the Navy.

Here’s wishing you all kinds ab pi luck, Doctor, and hereafter
I will not be ao nogligent. Now please do not answer this letter because I
know how all-fired busy you ars. ‘hen we write you just forget about
answering until you get bask. It is our job to write you and not your job
to write Use

a

Wits all good wishes to you and yours, I am

Very sincerely yours,

et Direator of Physical Edueatioh,
PCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach.

 
 
 
 

dune 23, 1943.

Mr. Norman Keller,
Wilson & Co.,
Lubbock, Texas,

Dear Mr. Keller:

In answering your commmication of June 16th I will
answer you from personal kmowledge and not by going back through the
basketball records to make it absolutely authentic as to dates.

Yes, there has been a rule that prohibited the dribble
but I do not mow whether you would call it modern or not. ‘This pro-
hibition was up to 1905, the A.A.U. rules prohibiting dribbling, but
the colleges began in 1906 to permit dribbling. We had separate rules
for the colleges end separate rules for the A.A.U. and Y.M.C.A. groups.
The Joint. Deaketball Rules Committee, which now comprises the colleges
end the Y.M.C.A.s is not the same as the present A.A.U. rule. But up .
until a few years ago all rules were the same under the Joint Basket-
ball rules committee.

: _ Along about 1928 Dr. W. “,. Meanwell, from the University
of Wisconsin, proposed and made a motion to the effeot that the dribble
be limited to one bounce. That was in the latter part of March, and I
believe the weeting was held in New York. In the first week in April
Knute Rockne and I spoke before the National Education Association at
Des Moines, Iowa. Knute spoke on “the Pedagogy of Football" and I spoke
on “The Pedagogy of Basketball". These mectings were held in the Drake
Field House in Des Moines, and in our denonstrations a discussion arose
regarding the new rules. I flayed the autocratic and high-handed method
of the National Basketball Rules Committee in putting in a rule about
which they had not queried the coaches. immediately I got a great number
of wires from coaches who agreed with me, and I called a meeting of the ‘
basketball coaches in Des Moines during the time of the Drake Relays.
The meeting was held and they elected me cheirman end requested that the
Rules Committee rescind their action.
A further meeting was called for Chicago in Jume, at the

_ time of the N.C.A.A. track meet, and at this time the basketball coaches
of the country elected me the first president to serve witil the time of
the next basketball coaches meeting in March, 1929. That meeting was held
in Chicago, and I was elected president for the 1929 term. The Rules Body
promptly rescinded the action deleting the dribble, and it has remained a
part of the game ever since. :

the National Basketball Coaches Association as an organization
was formulated in Chicago in March, 1929, and the Coaches Association the
following year re-elected me as president. So the Coaches Association as
a body was formed as a protest against the deletion of the dribble by the
Rules Committee. :

 
 

i mentioned in a previous paregraph that Dr. Meanwell

You are correct. Along from 1905 and earlier than that
and up untii the early twenties any person on e team could make the
free throws = all or a part of them, as he desired. in fact, anybody
on the team ee eee Reet a Ae Aree, Sveing Levee 6
specialty during those days.

Yes, traveling was called a fou} in the early days end a

- ‘the latter became a violation. There is no

pecific mention of a foul when two men guarded one. The only violetion

was when there was bodily contact with a man who was guarded on one

side and it was contact that uade the foul, not the two men guarding one.
‘I am

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am sending you a carbon copy of the original rules of
basketball written by Dr. Naismith in 1891. I have a photostatic copy
’ those rules here in my office. Soe ee eee

Very cordially yours,

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

 
   

PACKERS AND PROVISIONERS
LUBBOCK, TEXAS

June 16, 1943

Mr. FF. C. Allen
Athletic Director
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Sir:

We have a debate on a basketball rule that we wish you
would settle.

Has there been in the history of modern basketball ,ever
a rule that prohibited the dribble, that is, more fhan
one bounce. If there was such a rule, could it have been
during the years of 1926 or 1927.

Another - In the late teens or early twenties was a’single
player on a team allowed to shoot all free throws for his
team-mates? And along about this time was a free throw
awarded for traveling with the ball, two men guarding one,
etc.

Am anclosing a stamped self-addressed envelope and would
appreciate as answer.

Norman Keller _
Wilson & Co., 4nc.s
Lubbock, Texas
 

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June 4, 1943.

Myr. Melvin Kraemer,
Kraemer Hardware Co.,
Marysville, Kansas.

Dear Mel:

: I was mighty happy to have your letter of the
27th ultimo, and I assure you that I know exactly how you

the other fellows' acts deter me
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actually live by the ideals of an organization. You would
strengthen the organization and help the weaker members by
being e member.

I know what you mean - the fellows who pat a
fellow on the back with one hand and cut his throat with the
other. Well, Mel, you ean't chance this world and I guess
we will always have a certain percentage of those people.
They are in every organization, in every land.

Anyhow, I am glad to have had this correspond-
ence with you and I would cherish a visit some time in Marys-
ville, Kansas, in the Kraemer Hardware store. I may drop up .
some time and prop my feet up on your desk and visit with you
for thirty minutes. ‘Lots of good luck t you.

Cordially yours,

Director of Physical Education,
Varsity Basketball Coach.

 
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Mr. Harold Keith,
Athletic Department,
University of Oklahoma,
Norman, Oklahoma.

Dear Harold:

Thanks for your good letters of December SOth and
January 4the I will be happy to work with you, Hal Middlesworth
.and John Turner in anything thet you may want. it is very generous
of you to work out these troublesome difficulties that we faced
last year. You are a real sportsmen and a gentleman. Yot many
fellows com along with your kindly bearing and farsightedness.

: Thanks also for your kind words regarding our
Eastern trip. I constautly thought of how good it was for our
section to whip some of those Eastern boys who think only that
superiority comes from the Bast. There is a half-baked outfit
who have this viewpoint. Certainly not everybody in the Bast is
like that, but most of the coaches think that the superior play
resides in the Rast, when, as a mtter of fact, if those Easterners
come West they would be annihilated. es

: I have always maintained that if they wanted to
bring the systems together they should take an official from the
section from which the traveling team comes and an official from
the home section, and that would bring the divergent playing areas
together. That is what is done in football and that was wnat made
the game more uniform. Se long as they use all officials from one
spot they will never improve the game.

When you go east you have got to play just the way
they think and not according to the rules. Henry Tha told me to
throw @way all the plays, rules and swing, and set up a post because
the Easterners kmow nothing about post play.

7 _ will be happy to see you when we come to Norman.
With all good wishes, I am

Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education,
PCA AH _ Varsity Basketball Coach.

 
 

 

Che University of Oklahome
Norman, Oklahoma

INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

dan. 4, 1942,

Dear Coach:

Just a line to let you know I heard from
Hal Middlesworth, the new sports editor of
the “aily Skla}oman.

Here is the plan: John Turner, the chief
photographer of the Oklahoman, will be here-—~
before the game to shoot a few mug wnotetfnoal
up close) then, if that will be okay, He says
they can be posed. They are going to pass up the
berch shots, Of course, after the game starts
Turner will want to shoot action of the game

but he has promised to forget about the bench
shots that were so bothersome to you last year.

ane

I will be on hand early and bring him around
to see you in your dressing room soon as he
arrives.

Cordially,

6
f Harold “eith,

PS--e all owe you a million for making our league look
so good on your recent tripe That was swell.

Mae

 
Che University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma

INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

Dec. 30, 1942,

Dear Coach:

Just a line to let you know that I am at work on
some sort of arrangement with the Daily Yklahoman
whereby you won't be# bothered on the bench during
the game by flashlight cameramen, as you were last
yeare

I have written Hal Middlesworth, sports editor of

the “klahoman, and also John Turner, chief photographer

(the bulb-squeezer who covered last year's KU-OU battle

here is in the Navy) and I am sure we can work out s omething
agreeable.

Soon as I hear from Hal, I shall get in touch with you
by letter, in advance of our gameg I am sorry about
last year and wanted to get things all smoothed out

in advance this season so you and I @ both won't be
plagued by this awkward situation while we are so
busy on the scene of action.

Congratulations on your comeback andplease give Chuck
Elliott and Dean Nesmith our beste

Sincerely, 4

aie ayy
Harold Keith,
 

Decembér 31, 1942.

Mr. Harold Keith,

The University of Oklahoma,
Norman, Oklahoma.

Dear Mr. Keith:
Your letter of December 30th has been
received during Dr. Allen's absence from his office.

He will return Saturday evening, and your letter will
be brought to his attention at once.

Sincerely yours,

Secretary to Dr. Forrest C. Allen.

 
 

 

Decenber 16, 1942.

Mr. Je E. Kissell,
- Portis, Kansas.

Dear Mr. Kissell:

Thank you for the copy of the letter you sent Charlie Black.
I appreciate your interest. :

' Our poor fundamentals last night cost us the game against a
spiendid Creighton team, auguented by three freshmen. Our faculty
representatives passed a ruling just last Saturday permitting the
freshmen to play beginning’ Maroh,; 1943. - That is next to the most
silly thing they could have done, and the silliest thing was for
them to keep the freshmen from playing this past fall in football.

The ruling making freshmen eligible in March merely means
the freshmen will be permitted to play in 1943 as there will be
little or no spring sports.

, We are meeting Creighton, Oklahoma A. & Me, Fordham, St,
Joseph's, and other schools = all playing freshmen. ‘The Big Six
merely did lip service to the Big Ten because they passed a similar
rule. That is an indirect and quiet way of saying that the Big Six
and Big Ten will permit freshmen to pley in 1943, but it was made
primarily for football and nothing else, because, as I said, there
will be no spring sperts to smourt to anything.

By doing this in an indirect way they have admitted that they
are afraid to face frankly and fairly an issue that would have per-
mitted the freshmen to have played this past year and would have had
some pleasure out of their college athletics before getting into the
service pronto. About all the Big Six moguls promise the freshmen
of this year is a right to play in Tumisia and catch a few Italian
bombs

2

Thenk you for your thoughtfulness and helpfulness in all of
the things that you have actively undertaken.

; Now, @ word about Max. He is not doing as well as he could.
I put him in last night and he doesn't wloose himself. I don't

 
~ know whether it is a complex he has or what, but he doesn’t show the
spontineity and aggressiveness that a boy of Max's ability and train-
ing should show. — Instead of driving over the court he would
over at times rather than to run. I just can't quite figure out
he doesn't do better, ee
as he should.

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I had hopes that Max would do this for me this
inary training last year, but I am afraid tha

This difficulty that I had with Char
to the other boys. They now take the attit
very well it is because I yank them teo soon from t
Pannen Fe tae hen Oe is Weep ny a Bet :

le have big Johmy Dewell on the freshmen team,
permitted the freshmen te play 11 would have been a
last night, T om ire. bemianans: Deal weal Devt hes aos tae
prayer. As it was, we met ea 6 ft. 5 inch, 210 pound freshman
Creighton who was really one of the determining factors in the r
work of the Creighton team, aided and abetted by 6 ft. 8 inch
who attended the University of Iowa, flunked out at the end of the
first year, and then played independent basketball for six years at
Des Moines. This is his fourth year at the University, so he is a
wellemtured young man. Gibson, their other big freshman, looked
equally as mature but not quite as old as Reisser. It is one of the
nost matured teams that I have seen ~ a team about like the Oklahoma

Aggies in age, experience and power.
‘With all good wishes, I am

Very: sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education,
Varsity Basketball Coach.

 
Portis, Kansas,
December the Eleventh,
Nineteen FortyeTwo.

 

Charley Dlack,
Lawrence, Kansase
Kansas University:

bear Priend Charleys

tT am noticing by the papers that you are not with
the Kil basketballers at present. The press inference was that
maybe you and Coach Allen had had differences of opinion. f
am sorry to mow that, if it be true, and I will hope that it is.
* something else.

‘Why I write is to say thet we are all expecting a lot
from you this year and unless your difficulty,is one that you feel
fully justified in, that is not playing any this year, then I

.. hope you can see your way clear to cet back in right awaye

es : in a way, Charley, you owe us all something because
~ we have built up expectations for the year and we had you down as
one of the Big Six ‘big shots’ after your fine showing last year |
we just naturally figured you to carry us alone this year. Without
we ean't win the Big Six and of course there would be an oute
side chance that we would not anyway, But I think we can if you
fellows all get going as i know you cane aa
As regards Coach Allen, I have knowm him a long time
and I mow some of his faults. ie is mean to little chickens, he
serathhes matches on his neck and argues with the neighbor chilfren.
But regardless of his glaring faults, he has quite a little on
the ball, Chariey, and if you can get as mv¢h on the balles .
he has, we will wih. You know Coaches are d to have the last
word, Emmest Quigley used,to say that when ca led a foul,
it was 2 foul whether you toched the man or not, It is that way
with Allen <= when he says, 'this is it! then that's 1%. And he's
been calling the shots pretty streicht for forty years and all
he has ever missed I can count on a few fingers.

With the war coming on and maybe this the last good
year KU will have for a time, we need you badly. Like to see you
get in there and show Doc up. That is show him that you are @
better player than he is a coach, If you do that, Charley, we will
be right in there next March and miybe get a trip back to KC againe

Kindest regards to ali and hope to see you some time
this season in a game or te., I'm writing because I am intensely

interested in your team andi the KU reputation.
‘
. ef Sincerely, | \
Phayg, ‘A nah . Jul = Kisseli, se

  
   
   
 

 
Portis, Kansas,
January 7th, 19435,

Dr, F. C. Allen,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dr, Allen:

A word to say that I have been holding my breathe ever
since your first game back East and do not know how long I can hold
out without some new air,

Your victories were all grand and then tha result with
The Olathe outfit was ‘more! grand and then agains\\it ssuors was
ever 'more! grander, altho I had figured you should beat MU.

I feared your team would crack. It might be that is

what will happen before Sat. night but I hope not and I will try
to hold my breathe till about midnight Sat. night. I will not

be greatly disappointed if we lose but I would surely like to win
it for two or three reasons. If holding my breathe® will help any,
I will hold on.

What I really am writing for was to mention about the reply

Chas. Black made to my letter, I should have written you before

you went Hast on on the way but did not. Would sent his reply

to you but it is not here now, I thot it was fine the way he wrote
me and he said he got off on the wrong foot and that 'now' he wa

getting lined up and was going to really go and uphold the KU préde

and so on. Anyway I thot it was nice the way he wrote me and also

thanked me for writing him; when as a matter of fact I may not have

had any particular business writing him. It may have helped

a little thoughe

Would write about several things but just haven't time now,

I send you a meant-to-be comic telegram back East but it
may never have been delivered to you as the WU man said they could
not get it thru.

All I know about the MO. game last night is that you won
I think 68 to 44 according to radio report. We do not get good
sports news here any more and not many box scores, 1 got a KU Kansan
today that was two weeks old.

In haste and kindest regards,

 
     

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As regards the K. U.-0. U. game
at Norman, Drake made the fatal
mistake of putting the best post
player in the.game out to play
“the floor in “a rolling offense.”
Naturally, it didn’t work. You
can’t say too much about Gerald;
we know him around here. My
respects to Mr. Lance and Mce-
Nair for a lousy job of officiat-
ing. Kansas did everything ex-
cept standing on a chair to shoot
and got away with it. Phog was
managing everything from the
bench as usual, and did about
everything but put on spurs and
ride a horse across the floor.

P. S. He got away with it, too.

By way of closing. I might

 

 
Max-here is a little clipping from the sports column of Jack Copeland
of the Wichita Seacon of yesterday. It was a letter from Dr. Waren F.

Bernstorf of Winfield who had written to Copeland. Issue Beacon Jan. 19th.
You ean read and then hand this to Dr. Allen or else tell him that I

am ‘surpassed! that he would go down there and take advantage of those

boys and do them that way. Did he really have his spurs there and

how come KU did not give Oklahoma a chance. Bruce Drake apparently

Slipped a cog. Also that was no way to treat a former Kansas boy,

My. G. Tucker. I am amazed, I think De should forfeit the game to OU.
But if he does not think so, it is alright with me as it is.

Dade

 
 

March 23, 1943.

Mre Je BE. Kissell,
Portis, Kansas.

Dear ‘Mr. Kissell: :

1 aca ag ce ea and
wag, happy to have it.

‘ ‘By the way, I have been eS
wonderfully Max has responded.

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I oan notice now & confidence that he never had be-
fore. Maybe he felt as if there were too many big ones ahead
of him. It would have done your heart good to have seen him
in the Missouri game. I put Schnelibacher in and then I put
Max in; Missouri finally tied the score, and I said I wouldn't
change the line-up. I left Max right in there. He hit a long
one - about 30 feet, then John Buescher hit ea long one. He

i played a big part in wang this-an eversviotor, ‘Lous

The confidence in the boy is so striking that I wanted
ee happy about the whole thing.

Very cordially yours,

; Direstor of Physical a
FPCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach

 
 

/-

April 19, 1943.

‘Mr. Je E. Kissell,
Portis, Kansas.

Dear Mr. Kissell:

My sincere grathtude and thanks for your wonderful
remembrance. If you had shopped around for a month you could
not have found anything that I would have liked as well as
this — Gillette DeLuxe razor.

I have used the electric razor - two of them and
sheudwtek with 40 than = and had gone back to my Gillette but '
it had a heavy cardboard paper box and through the years has
become badly worn. In fact, I reinforced all corners of this
box with adhesive tape in an effort to reclaim it from its
dilapidated condition. With this new metal container and the
new razor I feel as happy as a boy with a new toy. Thanks a
million, sir, although you know that it was so entirely un-
expected that it thrilled me deeply.

I will be anxiously awaiting your letter in which
you will — topics of the day.

Please chives the Allens most kindly to Mrs.

_ Kissell, and remember always that I deeply appreciate your
friendship and generosity.

Very cordially yours,

e

Director of Physical Education,
PCA: AH ; Varsity Basketball Coach.

 
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DR. F.C, ALLEN,

Lawrence, Kansas.

801 Louisiana:

 
Dear Dr. FCA:

Sending this mail a little package con-
taining memento for the past season in bas-=
ketball. It is from me personally and I will
write you letter in few days with further ex-
planation and will also set you right on all
the current topiss of the d

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May 6, 1943.

Mr. Js 3 Kissell,
Portis, Kansas.

Dear Mr. Kissell:

{ gartainy enjoyed your good letter of April 178. You gave
- me the lowdown on everything.

You were asking what the situation is regarding the athletic 3
director. They named Karl Klooz the acting athletic director and they | 5
moved the athletic office from the gymnasium over to Mr. Klooz's |
office where they have transferred Mr. Falkenstien. Of course, this
is only a temporary situation wntil the war is over.

No, I would not be interested in the directorship any more. ’
it is a lot of grief, and so many people hold you accountable for ao
many things that you are not responsible for that it is no pleasure —
and just a lot of grief. This same thing goes for football »
Henry Shenk has been named football coach, as well as track coach, and
already I can see his blood pressure coming up somewhat. It is a job
for young man who likes the punishment. .

I would be glad to have you write me some time, or drop by and
we would have a good chat. It would be fine to have you near Lawrence
if you should work at Budora. Apparently the Hereules people are adding
a lot of now men, and I am sure that with your adninistrative and
executive ability you would have no difficulty.

I veceived the Little Six banquet monu and notice that you were
the main speaker. I would lave enjoyed hearing you make the eagles
SCTeAI.

I wonder if Mex has written you regarding his poison ivy. He
cer wine see ce ae he has a pretty bad case of it.
The hospital has been painting him with potassium permanganate. It is
not serious but I imagine it will knock him out of the trip to Lincoln.
However, I don't believe many of the boys will do too much up there be-
_Gause the competition is a little too strenuous for them. I think our
athletics are to be pushed in the background until after this big fuss
_ is over. That suits me o.k. but I do believe they will have basketball
next winter. I don't know what men I will have and I em sure they will
be few, but I imagine that we can get a few boys together to give the
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PORTIS, KANSAS,
April the Seventeenth,

Dr. F. C. Allen,
Lawrence, Kansas,

Dear Doctor Allen:

This will make the (Ifon't know how at times I have
started a letter to you, Generally, I do not quit on a letter but
it has been one thing and another this time and T have been very
busy besides, so that is it,

ft started writing you the night you had your last game
with KState there on Hill and had more than a page written when it
started getting intensely cold and I quit and went home, It was
after we had heard that you (KU) won from the Saggies, Of course.
{ was glad of that, but in the letter I had written some in reply to
an carlier letter from you as to Max being disillusioned and so ON»
However, by that time, Max had been doing so well towards the last
of the season that I felt he had changed some and was hitting a pace
i had always felt he eould,

So I destroyed the part of the letter I had written end
was glad for the word I got about Max » I had just gotten home that
night when the phone sounded and someone who had seen the game, called

was that he was always a gentleman on the court and he had never seen
or known of him doing a thing thatwas unbecoming, I was of course,
gkad for that, as I never had seen hin do a thing on the court here
in eight years of pahy that I could at all be ashamed of, The ref-
eree said it was unfortunate that Max fouled out: and that —*

he did not make a couple ealled on him, However, I felt that Max
was so happy, that he was trying so hard that he Likely fouled more
than he ordinarily would, His average all thru school here was two
fouls per game,

I feel that we owe you much for keeping Max going and
likely getting the most out of him, I judge that for a time there
on the Hill that-he might have felt there were sO many good boys that
he was just 'another! player and was content to drift along with the
teame Once in the.winter when he thought. he was going to be called
to service, he wrote me asking what to do. I waT could locate the
copy of letter I sent him, If I do I will send it to you, as it may
have had some bearing on his final streteh down the season's end.

Max writes me that he feels you (KU team) could have
won the NeaA at KC and also New York and been where Wyoming was if
the team had been able to Stay together, I felt so too, He said
that the team this year was almost unbeatable when they were all
clicking or having 'a good nicht,! But you had a grafbd season any-
way and we are all happy out this WAY. I got a tremendous kick -
out of you beating both@ Oklahoma teams down in their own yard.

 
 

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Sinee Basketball is now put away for last season, I will
not diseuss it further, I failed to get there this year to see a game
and have not seen Max play since his last game in high school here.

I note by UD Kansan that Max did quite well in the
weights in a meet there and out here I thot he was a good weight
thrower for his weight, that is for a boy who does not weigh at least
200 pounds, as usually the wt, men are Heavy es ‘ |

As to razor I sent other day will say. Iwas nob trying
to be pretentious at all, Quite some time back I made a contract
with Gillette to take a lot of razors in exchange for some adv. space,
The razors were extra good jones but they were over=stocked on some
models and then the electn@ razor slowed the sale of the 'arm-strong!
type some, So I got a lot of them and I have given them to Dynamo
players for years, Also to other friends,

You are welsome to this one whether you use it or not.
if the draft goes far enough to take you, I suggest you take the razor
along and give some of the Japs as close a shave as you canes On the
market now such razors are not obtainable,

Iwas just thinking of what a team you could have
next year if you could have all those boys back again, I be#lieve you
could win everything.

They will all be in a bigger game, tho, and the tragedy
is that some of them will likely not come back, Max is finishing a
course there with someg~mavigation and areial photography and will soon
be going on to another base,

I have been wondering what about the situation there as
to atheltic director, What can you say about it? That is, will a
permamant selection be made soon or will it be after the war is well
settled? Glad to have any suggestion you can make on it as I am ine
terested and talk to a good many persons about it, Are you interested
in the Directorship again? I see that Eugene Kemper spouts off some
ones in a while, He evidently has a sore spot somewhere, IT am going
to have a talk with him some time and get him to say something.

Kindest regards to all your people and hope you have a
good summer and that some of these times the war will draw to an end,
Might be down that way and if so will drop along to tell you the lowe
down on cverything? I have some offer to work out at Eudora but do
not know if it would be worth taking up.

Glad to hear from you any timex

  

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