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January l,

Dear Doctor Allen:

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Your letter of November 16 was received and very much appreciated
The boy, of course, received the tickets-said they were good seats and
sorry that Kansas could not put over a win on Mizzou. He had my cousin
who is a farmer at Perry, join him and see the game and then went home
— the Thanksgiving vacation with him.

We have been very happy this Christmas vacation bo have Richard
us. He arrived om the morning of the 19th and left this morning, as Ba
starts on Monday morning and he did not want to miss any classes. I ha
seen him since early last May, as he was in Minnesota for the summer,
went from there to Baker, although he made a somewhat roudabout trip
the All-Star Professional game in Chicago. The Baker team has already
‘received their gold footballs, and he was wearing his with a great dea
pride. He was not a regular, although he was in enough games to earn
second letter. Liz wrote me after the season closed that they consid
him one of the smartest lineman on the team, and that if he had had a |
pair of legs, he would have been an outstanding player. Am really glad
though that he is through playing. After he graduates next June he exp
to join us herein Arlington and enroll in George Washington law school

We managed to show him Arlington County, a little of Wash Snouon
some of the surrounding territory. Last Thursday, we took a trip throu
the Bull Run battiefields, up through Winchester, Harper's Ferry, Fre
and back through Washington. It was a. beautiful day and the mercury wa
to 60. Seemed like an early spring day, and there was lots of green ar

The weather here has not been bad at all. Mercury has dropped on
17 for the low, and most of the time it has been around freezing. Two
three times a few snowflakes, but none remained on the ground. The on
snow I have seen.so far on the ground was two weeks ago when I went ov
Luray, between the Blue Ridge and Massanutten ranges, to attend a meet
As far as I am concerned I can do without snow all winter. We have had
aEvEra? rains, and of course, fogs are not infrequent.

Listened to the Rose Bowl game this afternoon and could. hat help
think of the game last fall when Alabama beat George Washington 19-0, ©
muddy field. From all the publicity in the papers I really expected to
a super team in Alabama, but they looked to me like an ordinary team,
although they did win. Possibly I am prejudiced, but from my two years
observation of Douglas I would take him any time over Kilgrow.

By the way I was thrilled the other day when 1 saw Kansas listed
GW schedule for next November 12. If no others are present you can dep
upon me being in the stand and rooting for Kansas, of course. GW did na
impress me greatly this year. They have a back by the name of spe
was almost the entire GW backfield. .

Don't remember whether. 1 told you: I saw a number of games this ft
including Manhattan-Georgetown, GW-NDS, Navy*Columbia, Georgetown-Mar
and Army-Navy. The best game was Columbia-Navy at Annapolis, and the Ss
best was Georgetown-Maryland. The Army-Navy game was just an ordinar
but of course the crowd was interesting, although the game was played
terrible conditions. The fog was so heavy at times it was almost impo
40 See the ay when it was at the ese roe of the pielty