Mire Willian Ve Bryan
Box 116
Pierceton, Indiana

Dear Coach Bryan:
Congratulations on your tournament successe

I would certainly agree on the psychology you usee You cannot .
pep a team up for every games I think you put your finger on the trouble-=
the fact that the friends of the boys were so anxious for an undefeated —
season that they worried the boys wdulye

I would also agree with your menue Tell the boys that they are
not playing on the strength gained from the food that they eat the day of .
the game or that they ate a day before or a week before, but rather the

that is stored in the livere That great storehouse of energy will —
- off if the boys are in good and perfect traininge

I feed my boys very lightlye I tell them that they have never
seen a fat race horse in their life, and the boy who trains down to a fine
edge and who keeps the training rules is the competitor that will win

- ZAMS »

I hope that you were weneenbei im your game on the 22nd and that you
‘make a fine showing in the fifteen=team tournament the week of February 27-28
and March le We go to the University of Nebrasim, Lincoln, on March 1 and
to Ames where we meet Iowa State on March 3, and then we meet Oklahoma here
in Lawrence on March 7~ That will end our conference season on
are very small i am afraid we will not be able to hold Ups

You tell the boys that I said they are getting plenty to eats; in
fact, if I were feeding them I would not give then a bit moreée I think
perhaps you read the article in the Saturday Evening Post which gave a mem
on honey, celery, etce We use Ovaltine instead of hot ns it is much
easier digested.s

I am wondering if you mow of my new book, Better Basketball re
lished by MoGraweHill and Companys I am sending you @ folder on the same

so that you my look it overe This is a much superior book to my first text,
ly Basketball Bible. | :

Wishing you and your boys lots of good luck, I am,
Sincerely yours,

Direetor of Physical Bdueation and Recreation