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Dr. Forrest C. Allen
Kansas University
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

Knowing of your many years! experience as a successful
basketball coach, and your intense interest and leadership in improv-
ing the rules to maintain this game as one of our leading and finest
of American sports, I am writing to make a suggestion which might be
of interest to you.

As a boy I started playing basketball when the game was
originated and introduced in 1894, and I continued to take an active
part in the game for the seek ten years, including four years as a
member of the varsity on my college team which held its own with the
best colleges of those days.

Since that time I have been much interested in the develop-
ment of the game and have followed its progress quite closely. It ap-
pears to me that during the past few years the game has developed a
trend in such a direction that most teams now, to be successful, must
be composed largely of physical monstrosities; that is, applicants must
be well over 6' to 6%! tall to stand much of a chance of making the team.
For several years I have read of changes in the rules suggested and con-
sidered to offset, to some extent, the advantage possessed by thesuper-

tall men such as raising the baskets a foot or two, or by limiting certain