August a 1944.

Ur. Lyle T. Quim,
Iowa High School Athletic Association,
Boone, Iowa.

Dear Lyle:

I am rather mt about ballyhooing eny publicity re-
garding athletes coming to me for treatment. On page 339 of "Better
Basketball" I have written something that might be used by you, if
you desire. It is as follows:

“With the increasing emphasis upon competitive intercollegiate athletics,

an insistent demand has been created for expert college athletic train-

_ ers, who will possess a combined varsity-competitive-tean experience and

a working Imowledge of the basic sciences, coupled with an understanding

and sympathetic interest in the athlete, from his moods of highest exalt-

ation to those of complete dejection. In other words, trainers must

_ possess such powers of intuitive observation that they will detect symptoms
of psychic depletion, as yet irmeasurable by scientific methods, :

“There was a theory among the early-day physicians that they should have

had most diseases comumicable to man, so that they could more sympathet-
ically treat their patients. Ina similar *, if a team trainer has,
as an undergraduate, had athletic experiences, with their acconpanying in-
jury, fatigue, and dejection, he will perhaps be quicker to detect and to
understand the meaning of the hollow eye and the sagging shoulders, with

their attendant lassitude. : "

“Among the college~reared athletic trainers who have served their appren~
ticeships of practical experience under the author's direction are:

James M. Cox, trainer of athletic teams at Harvard University; Roland
Logan, team trainer at George Washington University, Vashington, D. C.,

the Boston Red Sox, University of Pittsburgh, West Point Military Acadeny,
and North Carolina Pre-Flight. (Logan was in the Southwest Pacific with
Jim Crowley as a recreation officer, but now I wderstand he is to be with
Crowley in his set-up this fall) Elwyn Dees, formerly trainer at Oklahoma
A. & M., the University of Pittsburgh, University of Nebraska, and Iowa
Pre-Flight. Milton Kelley, athletic trainer at the University of Texas;

and Dean Nesmith, present trainer at the University of Kansas. All of these
men are graduates and were athletic trainers at the University of Kansas be-
fore they went to their respective positions. Dean Nesmith has been trainer
here the past five years. !