April 14, lal

Mire John Bunn

Dean of Mon
‘Stanford University
Stanford University, Calif

Dear Johnnies

i have been et my desk today endeavoring to clean up on some of
my correspondence before the Taster vacation is endede I ran across your
good letter of Tebruary 25 and I desire te say hello te you and Bomies

_ i was sorry to hear that Stanford lost out in their playoffs
However, “eshington State did mighty well against Arimnsas here, and I
frankly believe that if Coach Buck Friel had moved his boys out of Kansas City
after they played Arkansas, and had taken them te a neighborhood canpus, |
_ like the University of Kansas or Kansas State, and allowed them to go to
_. School and make their grades, then I believe the boys wevld have played a
' different geme against Wisoonsins

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i was not too favorable impressed with Wisconsin's playings ‘they
_ FYeminded me of a Meanwell team of the old Missouri days when you played on
' Kanses, Johns The Wisconsin team got away with murders they held, they
roughed, they pushed and made inmmerable fouls, but when Washington State |
same back at them in the seme way the Wisconsin boys cried like Meanwell's
boys used to crye :

You remember when the wissouri outfit would push and shove and —
then when they were fouled, ch my, what an uproarg They locked like big
ory~baby players to mae Of course, John, you can charge some of this failure
of mine, to see the best qualities in these boys, to the fact that I had
seen repetition of this thing in early dayse Bud Foster is a Meanwell mn
and a fine fellows It might be just the style of play and not the fellow |
‘that we used to suspect Meanwell of beings I Mike Dre Meamvoll off the court,
' but on the court he could cry higher to high heaven then any man I have ever

I understand thet Buck Friel wrked his boys every night in the
interim between the Western and the Fins! playoffs, ‘The Washington State
woys looked dead on their feet and Tisconsin clearly outfought theme I
did not think ‘that Wisconsin was so great, but rather I thought that Tashincton
State was “poohed™ outs ‘They were not the same team in any way in any :
manner of playe But Wisconsin won and they ere the Netional Champtonse

Personally, I eam very glad that we did not get in the playoff.
The BigeSix decided thet in case of a tie the team that had the best offensive
and defensive record should represent the Conference in their playoff, and —
Iowa State had a better record than we had so they played Creighton and
Creighton beat theme I was happy that we got out of the thing beceuse we