NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS

DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

PATTEN GYMNASIUM

March 13, 1946

Mr. Forrest C. Allen
Varsity Basketball Coach
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas:

Dear Dr. Allen:

Thanks for your letter regarding Homer Turner. We have never had a
colored boy out for basketball at Northwestern University, and although
we do not have any rules against colored boys, I don't believe that we
would be interested in Homer. He sounds like a very fine prospect, but
we are overcrowded right now and the housing situation is almost in-
possible.

Congratulations on your annual championship. 1 would like very much
to be in Kansas City for your big game with Oklahoma A. & M. I do hope
that you are able to turn the tables on them this time and go on to win
the Western N.C.A.A. Championship. If this happens, 1 will see you in
New York as I plan to be there for the games.

Art has not decided where he is going to school next year as he feels
that he will be drafted before he gets to college. His eighteenth
birthday is on May 8, and Francis Bacon, the Principal at Evanston
High School, has told the boys that they will all be drafted shortly
after their eighteenth birthdays. ‘So he is planning more on a short
stay in the Army before going to college.

Thanks again for your letter, and kindest regards to yourself and
Mrs. Allen.

Sincerely,

SA at

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A. C. Lonborg
Basketball Coach

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