THE GREAT BEND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
RALPH W. HOGAN, PRINCIPAL
GREAT BEND, KANSAS.

Oo. E. MCFERREN, VICE-PRINCIPAL

Dr. F.C. Allen
Director of Physical Education
ee University of Kansas

= Lawrence, Kansas,

   

he Vear Dr, Allen:
sate I have planned for some time to write you telling something
about how things are going along here in Great Bend,

I imagine that you have already started to work with your
basketball boys and I hope to get going next week, We have a
rather peculiar situation here in the respect that we open our
regular basketball season on December 6 with Hutchinson here
and I don't need to tell you that "Chop" Cairns always has a
good ball team, Everyone of last year's lettermen here are on
the football squad and the football season isn't over until
Thanksgiving, November 28, That day falls on Thursday and I
plan to have two workouts on Friday and Saturday even though they
are holidays. 1 also plan two workouts per day the following week
up until *riday when we play. That doesn't give me much time and
I don't expect too much for awhile anyway.

This town is really a football town, "Doc", and I hope that
I will be able to do a little converting. Wve have fine facilities
and the administration is ultra cooperative in anything 1 have
wanted to do, lioney doesn't seem to be much of a factor and the
purchasing of equipment is entirely up to me. I have already
purchased new playing suits with two sets of contrasting jerseys
and twenty pairs of red leather Riddell playing shoes. Of course,
I bought long socks and knee pads too. I may have to convert the
boys on the socks and knee guards, but after they have used them
a game or two the persuasion will be over.

We plan to go out to the Dodge ity clinic with which you are
familar. ie have two games before that however, so maybe | will
be able to get a line on some of the boys by that time. I wish
that you could see my boys play some time for I am sure that I
could use your advice and comments to a definite advantage. The
whole town is not basketball minded and I've heard that this is
a "graveyard" for basketball coaches, but I'm quite too: young: to
be buried and to avoid that end I'm going to try to give them some
kind of a basketball team, It may take some time and a lot of hard
work but I think I can take care of that without much trouble,

Our physical education program which is new here in Great Bend
is taking form, I discovered a case of “athletes! foot" a few days
ago and I immediately made a thorough investigation, je are very
mach crowded here for physical education space and I found that
about twenty-five percent of the boys had a touch of the stuff.

I sent the bad cases to their own physician and then I started
to work painting all the rest with tincture of benzoin, I painted