6680 Ohio-Strect,
omaha, Nebraska,
December 10,1940.
we gua ,
Mr. F. CG. Allen,
Lawrence, Kansas.

My Dear Sir:

~ Your recént attack against c6liege f6otball has been of great
interest to me beGause it has given me~the Iong awaited opportunity
to write to you personally and to state somie of my reasons for the
poor showing of K.U. fodtball teams for the past scasons.

~ The writer,~a former resident of the state of Kansas is an
ardent football enthusiast, especially for all of the teams in tie
Big Six. HOwever being now a resident of the great football-minded
state of Nebraska, I must confess that I am somawhat of a booster
for~the CGornhush-rs now that they are riding the grest of a great
wave of popularity~on account of what will go down in history as
one oftheir graatest seasons. However, normally I always root
‘for the Jayhawker's against Nebraska because I Still™have a lot of
loyalty for my native state and that K.U. is the urider dog. ~
ss I wish to -pfot-st vigorously against your recent statement in
regard to college football and~I am sure that you will find many
football fans in actord with me, including th4~vast majority of tho
leading sports writers. The past season Has been 4 very humiliating
one for Kansas football enthUsiasts, especially for thos* K.U. —~
supporters that “have imigrated to the surrounding states whos- team
have so consistently wallop-d the Jayhawkers very Saturday.

Kansas with a half million mor- population than Nebraska,
sfiould be able to do much better than during th- past fow years.
Lets go~back to the turn of the~c4ntury and we will se* great ~
Jayhawker football t-ams that-were on a par with any team-in the
middle west. And then &@ few years later in 1907-8 with tH- great
Tommy Johnson. Then the total of wifis and losses with ths Huskers
wefe even. And in the past thirty yoars, K.U. haS won on- gam.

The Largest staditm in the Big Six thers at Lawrente is practically
empty at your games, and only a few miles from a metropolitan area
witha po6pulation of over a Malf million afid twico™that of Lineolnt
where tiey have an attendafics ateon- of their lesser games of more
than the total for all’games at K.U. fee 23 oD
And here Mr. Allen, you~hav- a complote picture of how the
"soft sissy. Sufiday school gafie”, of basket-ball~is killing the .
onte much respect4d and feared Jayhawker gridster of yosterday.
The t4rm "“Jayhawker™ is an old tradition in the Midlands football
circles and” tas numsrous~football fans in the gréat State of —~
Kansas and clsewhére have a right to ask for a mew deal for their™
game at KU. ;~one that will put gootball before the "sissy" basket
ball. Under th- present sct-up, K.U. is becoming nationally known
as a haven for~the parlor and Sunday school boys whom play baskst
ball; while the~football playcrs~go to other schools outside the
State. The writer lovas to journey down to Lawrence at least once
every fall and seo the delightful surfoundings and~se- a good ~
game~but I would'nt go across the street to see the "sissy game of
pasket-ball. Mrz Allen,~I hope your~blast will prove a boomerang —
that will create a state=wide interest in K.U. football so that tha
Jayhawker will again com- to life as in the days of the great
Tommy Johnson. |

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