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.