Portis, Kansas,
November Seventeenth,
Nineteen Forty-One.

Dr. F. Cs Allen,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Doctor Allens:

I have your letter returning the letter from Chicago as regards
the Kansas boys. Thanks for same tho it was not very necessary;to re-
turn it. I was glad they recognized the merits @f the three Kansas
mene I agree with you that I think the 'milk fund! is run thru the
cream separator before the 'netf profit is arrived at,

I had been intending to drop you a line and send the enclosed
clipping from an Arizona paper, We sent some representatives from
Portis to Phoenix lately to a Water meeting and in the papers they brot
back I ran onto this article by McGovern on football, or rather it
is comment by the editor on what McG.:said. It is very good and thot
din case you have not seen it) that you might like to read it.

Football will always be a problem as regards the injuries and
that is the thing that worries me. I like a good football game and
I think most anyone does but I think it should be controlled and the
rules taken care of to avoid all possible serious injury. And the
commercialism should be removed entirely if possible from all school,
college and amateur sports,

I shuddered Saturday when I heard that "Evans is hurt" and so on.
I feared that a fine career might be stopped or handicapped by a twisted
knee or back or arm injury. By the way, the KU--Aggie game was as
much of a thriller as I have heard in a long timee I was’here at
Portis and got it off and on,via radio and I was first up, then down
until the man finally said %t is over and KU wins 20/16, Tt was
a fine tonic for the school and I was glad for all of you and Gyn
Henry and all of them, I wish more games could be like that and I was
proud that it was all a Kansas affair and that likely nowhere in the
nation was there a better show that day. I think maybe KU had some
luck but at that the decisions as I could pick them up, seemed to go
against Kansas, that is at crucial moments. And there near the end
of the game when we thot there was but one play left and Kansas passed
to aman in end zone and announcer first said, It looks goods; then he
said, No it fell out of his hands, I think it was a pass to the :
Swede Lindquist. My heart sank then as I thot it over and some fellows
standing arouyg (for KU) cussed. But then that final run by the little
boy and we sat stone blind, deaf and dumb until the announcer had re-
peated it several times.

I had anticipated it in a way. Do you know those Kansas State
people are the most gullible in the world. They can lose all and then
win a game and they come out of it and you would think they would never
lose again. I think the stage was just right for what happened. I
recall they got Jack Gardner there for basketball and won a game and
started boom for a million dollar field house and then they fell flat
and did not get the house and lost a lot of boys and also a lot of games.
But I guess it is no bad habit to be that way, thom this time I think
they let over-confidence hurt them some.