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Boone, Iowa
April 20, 1944

Dr. Forrest Ce Allen

Director of Physical Education and Recreation
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen;

You will no doubt remember, I hope with pleasure, your experience
at our Coaching School held at the Des Moines “Y" Camp at Boone,
Iowa in the summer of 1941. That was our first summer Coaching
School and we are now making plans for ovr fourth Coaching School.

 

 

We have tried each year to bring some of the outstanding men of
the country to this school for the benefit of our Iowa high school
coachese

We are again arranging our program for this summer and expect to
have one of the most outstanding coaching schools which will be
held anywhere in the country this year. One thing which we are
particularly anxious to emphasize is the care and prevention of
athletic injuries. I need not tell you that this is one phase
of coaching that has been in desperate need of improvement, more
so this year than ever before due to the fact that many of our
trained coaches have gone into the armed services and men who
have not had experience in treatment and care of injuries or
methods for their prevention are now the ones who are going to
coach our high school athletes during the next year.

 

We are completing negotiations to have Ray Eliot of the University
of Illinois and Slip Madigan of the University of Iowa on our
football staff and Vadal Peterson of the University of Utah,

Harold Olson of Ohio State University, and Laurence Harrison of

the University of Iowa on our basketball staff. We are also
arranging for some talent in the field of baseball. We would be
very happy if we could make arrangements with you to devote some
time at our Coaching School in discussing with our coaches the
problem of care and prevention of athletic injuries. You would find
them all ready and willing to absorb every idea which you could

give them on this subject.