“6680. unio Street,
omaha, Nebraska,
January 27,1941.

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

My Dear Mr. Allen:

I was very pleased to receive your long and most interesting
letter of sometime ago. In replying to same, 1 will endeavor to
make it clear that it was newspaper accounts of your statement
that led me to write to you, and that your fine letter has caused
me tO have an entirely different opinion of you and your athletic
connections at Kansas University. Really Mr. Allen, I wish to make
some kind of an apoOlegy for some of my statements and to thank you
for your great efforts to gain fame for the University of Kansas.

Your kind suggestion that I visit you on my next trip to
Lawrence, is an event that I will be looking forward to, with great
pleasure during the coming year. I am planning to attend either the
Iowa State or perferably the Missouri game, providing that kame is
held Saturday the 22 of November. Inasmuch as your letter has out-
lined in detail, your long and active career in K.U. athletics, I
will enjoy very much to have a talk with you about the old days
when the Jayhawker was “tops” in Midwest football circles. I have
never known that you formerly were so active in football, and I will
be very anxious to see that picture of Tommy Johnson, that you
spoke of. I was just a boy on a farm up in Washington County at the
time when he andthe great Jayhawker team were making football
history, but I was a keen reader of the Sports Department of the
K.C. Star even in those days. I think Kennedy and Mosse were the
coaches.

Well so muc} for the past, I have read about your recent tour
of the east and’ you and your fine basketball team is giving Hansas
a lot of publicity to offset the football failures. I hope that they
can get football in the limelight in the same manner that basketball
is. With Engleman and another Allen besides yourself, I predict
another Big Six title.

Whats the football outlook down there for this fall, heard that
they had an unusual fine Band of freshman, but later reports are
that some of the most promising did not return from their holiday
vacations. That Century Club ought to get some results. How long has
it been organized. Any information received will be kept in utmost
secrecy. I regret to say that I will have to forego membership in
that club for the present, but the Relays Club is a different matter
On the ten dollar membership, are the two tickets for $4.50 for the
Relays Races or are they for football games. Tickets for the Relays
would be of no value for Football games are the only athletic events
that I would attend at Lawrence. However I would be pleased to assist
some young football player with the $5.50.

I am submitting a plan that I am sure will get results in regard
to better football. 1 An intensive campaign among all former K.U. men
who are financially able to join the Century Club. 2 Have all former
K.U. men in contact with the University and act as scouts for all
promising football players in all high schools in the surrounding
states, such as they do here in Nebraska. 3 Endeavor to place such a
man in every town that has a fair sized high school in Kansas.

4 Stop at nothing to get these players and lastly k a
Kansas colleges. py y keep Kansas boys in

In closing I wish you amp very successful season and hope to
See this fall, Yours sincerely 4/

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