April 5, 1940. Thanking you, and with best wishes, I em Direotor of Physical Edueation and Recreation, Varsity Basketball Coaches : ESTABLISHED 1900 SOUTHWESTERN DISTRIBUTORS FOR MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY 922 OAK STREET KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI a AGENCY Ss Liquip Process anpb Gevatine Dupticators April 1, 1940 Dr. Forest C. Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Doc: Just a line to congratulate Bob on his play in the second half at the Municipal Auditorium last Saturday evening. He richly deserves the All-American selection which he received and I know to you, as his Dad, it was a real thrill. It was a shame to have lost the ball game, but the way that ball was going through the hoop for them Saturday Night they would have beaten the Phillis 66 team. God Baless you and keep you, Boy, you have done and are doing a tremenduously fine job at the University of Kansas. You probably will never know, Doc, how much inspirational good you have done. With best personal regards, I am, Cordially yours, “bp Clar nee McGuir eo April 10, 1940. Miss Irene NeAdoo, 1244 Ohio Street, Lawrence, PNSase _ Dear Mies Mehdoos . ee ee — should overlap the next class period, ani for this Neuis < fale elk can Se Gah Cotes tae os Since so many reports have been caning in regarding your inertia and delinquency, I think it would be well if you would come in for a conferences ™~ Very sincerely yours, Director of Thysieal Sdusatiton end Recreation, FCAsil Vareity Snaketints Concive “Cz? : hk BO aw , v.26°- 16 Mey 18, 1940. Vis MeAllister, Supervisor of Prysionl Education, Wichita Public Schools, Wichita, Kansase Dear Maes Serry I had to leave in such a hurry after our luncheon engagement up at Chicagoe I hope you will uate nacho slr, sacs fe ye esate cat lta a me @ dey or two in Lawrence. seit Mihi, Sha Mielibenh celebs ditt oolemne:, told me that you had a swmer camp in Mimnesotae I em going to be at Camp Lake Hubert, Mimesota, near Brainard, Minne oe some time during the sumer. —- Hope I will hear from you soone Cordially yours, James Hil, Raport, | , instructor in Physical Educations June 7, 1940. lire Co Ee licbride, The Kensas City Star, Kansas City, Moe als H. ~ | for the after Varsity Basketball Coach. - [THE KANSAS CITY STAR, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1940.2/¢ oor! Qin sm -omment “Chuck” Taylor Didn’t Have on His N.C. A. A. Colored Glasses When He Was Looking at, Indiana and Kansas....Two All- Star Basketball Teams With Only One Hoosier and None From Kansas, the Runner-up Team....Maybe He’s Giving *Phog”’ Allen the Indirect Boost. (By The Star’s Sports Editor.) i MR, “CHUCK” TAYLOR, who ‘peddles basketball parapher- nalia and is called (by someone in Oklahoma) “perhaps the nation’s outstanding authority on the game,” has selected two All-American basketball fives and turned them loose with his stamp of approval. On his first team are McNatt, Oklahoma; Huffman, Indiana; Vaughan, Southern Cal; Hapac, Illinois; Harvey, Colorado, On his second: Renick, Oklahoma Aggies; Waite, Tarkio; Dick, Oregon; a LJ SS] Glamack, North Carolina; Broberg, NO KANSAS PLAYERS 3 Dartmouth. SN) on EITHER TEAM, Patrons of the Missouri college SX HUH! — MAKES Union basketball and the National Pn: SSS “ PHOG’ LOOK Intercollegiate tournament here no doubt will be happy to note the presence of Tarkio’s Waite on the second team, but patrons of the N. C. A. A, tournament here and followers of Big Six basketball will be surprised to see only one In- diana star and none from Kansas among Mr, Taylor’s ten selections, Yet Indiana. won the champion- ship game of the N.C. A. A., com~- prising the major colleges of the United States, and Kansas was the runner-up. Kansas, the runner-up team in the N. C. A. A. championships, but possessed of no player of sufficient merit to win the eye of Mr. Taylor either on his first or second team. Now please don’t be writing me scurrilous letters, any of you rabid Mis- sourians. I'd be writing the same stuff, substituting Missouri for Kan- sas, had the Tigers been the N, C. A. A. runner-up. And, come to think of it, Im not so sure that Prof. George Edwards didn’t have a player worthy of recognition among the first ten, but we'll let that pass. One observer suggests the possibility that “Phog” Allen doesn’t trade with Mr. Taylor, but that seems a catty thing to be saying—or thinking—and, of course, it isn’t our thought. Still, it’s an idea, Or could it be that Mr. Taylor, in naming no player of the runner-up team in the N, C. A. A., intended to convey an unwritten testimonial to the coaching genius of Allen. C, E. McBRIDE. LIKE QUITE A June 24, 1940. @ 2 Here's another hard thinge Since this was series” of basketball we did not give coaches and salesmen tickets. They were forced to buy theme Well, in all tournaments Chuck had been to previously he had been admitted free as either a salubrity f ee fellow in Bengor, Maine, or in Lubbock, Texas, Imow about a tean in Les Angeles or Seattle? It seems to me that some of those play- ers selected might have been tip top, and yet they might have been fine in their own conference play. But since the N.C Ack. is the “worlds series" of basketball it is thinlmble that some of these boys that got that fur should have formed the nucleus of this all- American teams And to me, the selection should come frop the teens of the Eastern play-off, the teams of the Western play-off, and the teams in the National play-off. Ton"t this about wnt is Sane $8 pet sen tour and pretessionel Sounmentot ha So I think that Mr, Taylor would mturally have to revise , his method of seleetion because some coaches would never see the +) other teame in action. Now, lire Taylor would have had a very exe cellent opportunity to have polled the coaches in attendance at the ' National Basketball Coaches Associatione They were there and after he had had the polling done at that time, then I think those coaches in attendance would have seen these various teams and it would have ~~ ee ee ic : I say Mire Taylor should revise his method of selection because the national play-off has only been in existence two years and Mire Taylor is still using the same method he ha | last ten years. T widhd mee bay SN be bose Sutded So led, voy exh the times, but I believe there are better ways of seleeting than sending a mimeographed sheet out, asicing for first and second choices for the alleimerican selection. Persomlly, I never reply to then because it is for the Converse Yearbook and unlegs the teams use Converse shoes they do not stand much chence of getting in the Year- books I will use a Converse shoe if there are certain players on : ‘the team desiring them. I have always done that, even when I had the "Phog Allen" shoe. so Atay Uaavee GauE oay ee oh o t he could use to better advantage, then he received that shoe. I am interested in a shoe that will protect the player's heel from stone PERERA See SO AARDES ete Were oe ARS Ne Same Oe aroh and protect the arch, and yet which Se heawy enough to keep Se Cee | ? | Thank you ois uals sed le vee fine cnvkiethons. seatbsinia snl t: alone teu ween ohenisand Seed Go bine auk ‘bo She Ca for a picnic some times ee es ee, ee - ; g Hl i ani : fi i iL yf in iL qk I i) abl fea , $ i ilk ii ie : f H yg ne dated ya ree Ha wn iy SiH bay sa 2 . 4 a i “| at Hal Aq, FORT SCOTT JUNIOR COLLEGE FORT SCOTT HIGH SCHOOL ScorT, KANSAS Ww. S. DAVISON, DAN AND PRINCIPAL Mn. 7 orret 0, Mon Univ Of Hansa, FORT SCOTT JUNIOR COLLEGE FORT SCOTT HIGH SCHOOL hid taille, ances len chet henge Tinh wath Ae tne J tefe Ahal 0 psa Me a Bret cop premtnaige Lémak at Green. fas hips i By ping ahi me ciacedileieall of bist ey ig ri g E34 in - i \ a oH (li ie i : : te i al i ‘ ub i i poe i uuu fa! snl geist li 3 ait i lit f a8 Mp ; Dtotel, CONTINENTAL Kansas. Gity— LOUIS R. MYERS July Tenth MISSOURI President DUDLEY ¢: BAKER 9-48 9 Manager Dear Dr. Allen: IT have now returned to Kansas City from my vacation and. would like very much to go over that account just as soon as you can. I think we have all of the 'dope' at hand so that it will not take very long after you get here. With kindest personal regards, I am Yours very truly ONTINENTAL ROBIN Mc GEORGE Executive Ass't Manager Dr. Forrest C. Allen Department of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas rng/f dhe heart, of —* Phe heart, of America’ eS April 24, 1940. This te written in entire confidence, but I want to pass the confidential thought on to you why we are playing in Dear Macs Madison Square Garden. i Bh gi248 i seit dade! dni ie 3 af ; Phat oft i vel silty Hee 3 ity niu ue ies’ fe a i] il hy : ae Fee at: g a tng (i bai) HH Wisin =f ; Uifdsat 5 ster lapse 3 i ; 3 hes if ni rH eich He ai ee fi; gee Hee S840 He é a Se pipet atl il ine a ee Bil bitatyss 3 3 | HEL save ; igi 3 T aaa a ij af 3 PHT tae aly ait Huet i hall il aah Hale fH a Ors. : He i ch wlstell et atte lial Hin we Ha i L, i Iie EE 7 8 sie mel “6 {a Te ie Het i | ay a H Me ad 4 le H [is li aid u a eh i Hf he He fie fue ey ih wa) tia fl | HH fess s AT aes be nA f : ESTABLISHED 1900 EDUCATIONAL MA Tre SOUTHWESTERN DISTRIBUTORS FOR MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY 922° GAK- STREET KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI AGENCY Liquio Process ano Gevatine Dupticators Jan. 24, 1940 Dr, Forrest C. Allen, Dir. Phys. Ed. University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Doc: As I sat watchin’ the ball game last evening, I believe I got almost as big a thrill at seeing your son go to town as you did, If there was ever a boy who played a game, worthy of the Allen name it was your son Bob last evening. I am not thinking only of the fine offensive game which he played, but rather the way he dogged that ball off the backboard on defense against those fellows 6'4" tall and more and the way he would come out of that pile with the ball, regardiess of where he was or how far down the court on offensive he had been. wee I think it is a real tribute to the lad and - certainly he deserves all the praise that anybody can give him, When he was slipping in those one handed shots, both left or right handed, it looked like "DeBernardi”, I swear above me, I have geen the big red-head play many a ball game, but I never saw him do his stuff any better than Bob did last evening. Another thing that I know warmed your heart, was the fact that he got the points when you needed them. It was his offensive brilliancy which sparked that ball club to a tre- menduous victory last evening. Again I say congratulations to you, Boy. JI hope you are still at it when my boy gets up there. With best personal regards, I am, Cordially yours, Clafence McGuire M:D ee