KANSAS STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

W. A. BRANDENBURG, A. M., LL.D., PRESIDENT
PITTSBURG, KANSAS

August 28, 1939.

Mr. Forrest C. Allen,
Coach of basket ball,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:

I have had a group of Boy S¥outs out in the
Mountains for three weeks and have just returned
to Pittsburg and find your letter of the 14th.
Thanks for the information on the combination
electric score board and timer. ‘Ye have not
placed our order as yet as there has been no need
to rush and there may be new ideas incorporated
in boards that come out this fall

Please think nothing of your delay in making
reply to my letter. I expect that all of us have
been guilty some time or another of misplacing an
unanswered letter.

In regard to my calling violations made in
some of your games when a player, I believe that you
mentioned Golay, entered the free throw lane before
the ball had touched either the goal or the backboard,
I will say that I have been forced to call this
several times in Big Six Conference games as there
is quite a tendency to step into the lane as the ball
leaves the thrower's hands. I have failed to call
it many times when the violation occured but any time
I did call it, I assure you that the offending player
had his foot parked in the lane long before the ball
touched the basket or backstop. I believe that I
understand this rule very well but want to thank you
for your interpretation just the same.
2 ite wen
While on the topic of rules, I might say that
your boy Howard FEngleman seemed to not understand the
rule regulating what can be done with the feet by
the player with the ball. In your Kansas State game
at Lawrence, I called him for traveling twice and
during a time out period, he asked me why I had called
. him. One time he changed his pivot foot, after having
. pivoted on one foot he then pivoted on the other. The
| other time he came to a stop in a two count rhythm
with one foot in advance of the other and pivoted on
the forward foot. Howard is a swell kid and I know
him well enough that he felt free to ask me which I
was glad that he did.