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

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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