6680 ohio Street
Omaha, Nebraska,
October 15,1941.

Mr. F. C. Allen,
University of Kansas, os
Lawrence, Kansas.

My dear Mr. Allen:

The writer wishes to take this liberty of writing to you relative
to our correspondence of last fall on the question of football vs.
basket-ball which originated from a speech that you made at a high
school football dinner in Kansas City last fall. You probably
recollect the letter that you received from me and of the long and
most interesting letter that you wrote to me and in which you out-
lined in detail the struggles that you have had to create an
athletic plant at Kansas University. Also you may recollect my
second letter in which I stated that I was mis-informed when I wr:
wrote my first letter to you.

Mr Allen there was one thing about our correspondence that I
have not forgotten, and this was the invitation that I should
call on you in the event that I should come to Lawrence during the
football season. You recollect from my letters that I am a native
Kansaa and a booster for old K.U, and that my football enthusiasm
for the Jayhawkers starts from the days of the great Tommy Johnson.
You recollect that you told me in your long letter of the days of
Johnson, Pooler, Donald and others and of ythe picture in your
office of Tommy Johnson.

Does this invitation still stand and what game would be most
convéniént to you, the Iowa State or when the alumni of the
Coffeyville, Kansas High School, and now known as the Missouri
Tigers tangle with the Jayhawkers. I make this statement because
at least two in the first team from Missouri and two or three in
the second and third teams are all from Coffeyville, Kansas, and
futhermore I wish to challenge anyone to prove to me that anyone
from Coffeyville has played during the past ten years on either
the K.U. or K.State football teams. I am not very interested in the
K.U. K.S. game.

I would certainly be very pleased to visit you Mr Allen and
see the athletic department of K.U. and also to meet some of the
gentlemen connected with the football end, and to outline my plan
for an intensive campaign against every high school in the state to
endeavor to keep Kansas boys at their fine University or else at
K.State. Colorado with Jim Yeager is getting all the promising
material from the Western part of the state and his assistant
Prentup is luring the boys away from Manhattan, Nebraska scouts
swarm all over the Northern part, Oklahome and Missouri the South
and Lynn Waldorf, McMillin and Ralph Graham combing the entire
state. So here you have the writers outlook of the Kansas football
situation.

But I do want to congratulate you on your great success with
basket-ball and to wish you another conference title which will

offset the football situation.
Ve ( ely)yours
iw ‘
Bh. PP, hnson