April 7, 1945. Mre Ae de Marts, Vice Prinsipal, North High Sehool, Denver, Colorado. - Dear Mr. Marts s : : : : : I have a letter from Thomas A. Bvans, the alumi secretary at Baker University. He gays; “EB. V. (Virgil) Wood has told me you desired the address of Glen Woods. I am sorry, but we do — not have it. Should I receive it in the near future, I will forward it tw you." i | I am sorry, lir. Martz, that I can give you no information, but like the angel that tried, I was willing. Sincerely yours, t Director of Physioal Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. BAKER UNIVERSITY BALDWIN, KANSAS THOMAS A, EVANS ALUMNI SECRETARY March 26, 1945 Mr, Forrest Allen Department of Physical Education niversity of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Phog, Ee Ve Wood has told me you desired the address of Glen Woods. I am sorry, but we do not have ite Should I receive it in the near future, I will forward it to you. Thanks for the note about Finis Ketcham. Congratulations on the governship. Anything we can do to help, let us knoWe Sineerely, elie Thos. A. Evans March 22, 1945. \ Mr. A. J, Martz, Vice Prinoipal, North High Sehool, ; Denver, Colorado. Dear Mr. Martz: I galled Virgil Woods, the librarian at Baker University, and asked for the whereabouts of Glenn Woods. I know Virg so well that I thought he would imew. I roomed at his mother's home when she was librarian. Virg grew up on the campus, but he was away from there for a while and had not followed all the alumi as closely as Tommy Evans, the alumi secretary. Had I used a bit of clear thinking I would have called Tommy: Evens first, but knowing Virg's background I thought he would know. Virg hes promised to ask Tommy Bvans to look up Glemi Woods‘ address and he will let me know the answer. ZI want you to know it was good to meet you and to sse an hau : of Lailarpe reflected in your physique and personality. Thank you for your courtesy, and remember me to your principal, Mrs Pendleton. I am sending you a Jayhawk Rebounds, a monthly publdention we get out for our beys in the serviee. Of course, we hope they all rebound from the Japanazis, end that it will be soon. You will not know these Jayhakkers, but I thought you might like to sean over the pages. It is just one of my service ese poi to cur boys. With all 1 good wishes, I ova Very sincerely yours, POAKH Pebruary 24, 1945. Mr. R. He. Malott, si/e Co. 16-45, Sec. 1, Room 174, Cordell Hall, . oe Stillwater, Oklahoma. Dear Bob: od letter of February 19. We are may hinge on this result. The boys I am a little afraid that they will n the offing for them and I have a well. It won't be long until we _ Thanks very much for your go pisying Missouri tonight and a lot have had examinations all weak and be lethargic. But there is a lot i feeling they will come through pretty will know, — .2 was ata meeting with your father yesterday and he told me you were almost outraged because they had given the Oklahoma Aggies the call for the play-off. I am very happy they did because our boys are largely - _ Wavy and it wouldn't be possible for them to get away on account of the 48-hour ruling. - If we win this thing our boys will surprise me immensely. 1 didn't think we had it. My admiration goes out to them in unlimited quantities. : : | I do thank you for sending me this information on Iba. This shows you are inteisely loyal to your alwa mater. I will be hoping for the time when you will return along with the other boys. It will be a great outfit when you and the others come back, and I am sure we will give a fairly good account of ourselves, This is just a short note, sandwiched in between a very busy day as I have two or three meetings besides getting our boys ready for the battle tonight. I want to work on the next Jayhawk Rebounds right away so you will get more news from that. ‘ With every good wish, I am Very sincerely yours, _ | Direotor of Physical Education, POA :AH si | Varsity Basketball Coach. € March 28, 1945, Mre. Grace Miller, 1330 Baltinore, Kansas City, Mo. Dear Mrs. Miller and Rowena ; It was a delight to see you good people yesterday. As 1 promised, I am sending you the Jayhawk Rebounds for your perusal, and after you have finished it you may mail it, if you wish, to Ployd. oe ) You can tell Ployd we have him on the mailing list, but since I do not have his address it will be economy to mail the Rebounds to you girls, then you can mail it on to hin, % _ We are hoping this terrible conflict will be over before long and that you and Floyd will be reunited in the very near future, and then you ean come and watch a basketball game and look at some loud sooks. ; Rowena, here's the Allen's leve to you and your fine people. With sontinued best wishes to you and your grand uphill fight, I en — Sinoerely yours, Direotor of Physical Education, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. Ence : Dear Doc: - Have just been reading over my file of Jayhawk Rebaguils and certainly get a bang out of them. It's been a full year now since I ran into a former K.U. athlete and being able to read about all the guys I used to kick around with fills a big gap. Last Jayhawk athlete I saw was Norman Sanneman, your wild man of a couple years back. He's a Civil Ingin- eering officer and was apick to shove off with a SBAbees outfit. Sanny was as verbose as ever. He's a dandy. We're in port for a couple of days right now and are taking it easy. The heat is terrific on this side of the Equator, but the nights are wonderful. The tropics have their points, although I haven't heard any of the guys coming up with the idea that they'd like to stay in these parts | after the war. Hope your ball club is knocking them dead this seanth. as they have done so often in the past. I haven't seen any basketball since March of '43, when I was still at Great Lakes. Am attached to the staff of a flag officer and our mailing address is the division designation, rather than the name of the attack transport we are aboard. That address is: Lieut. H.M., Mason Transport Division 54( Staff) c/o Fleet P.0., San Francisco Trust that everything is well with you and your family. along my regards to Mrs. Allen, Mitt and Bob, March 22, 1948. Mr. Burwell Moles, North High Sehoeol, Denver, Colorado. Dear Burwell I want you to lmow hew meh I enjoyed my visit with you. it certainly was good to talk over old times and to spin the _ yarns we did while waiting for the train. i am sorry that Mra. Moles was ill and I did not get chance to greet her. However, I hope that her recovery complete by now. Please remember me most kindly to her to your young son who wisecracked about your age. ga” d I am sending you our last two issues of the Jayhawk Rebounds and trust that you may find something of interest in then. 7 With best wishes for your continued success and happinesa, I am Very sincerely yours, POA: AH Enc, KANSAS LIVESTOCK COMMISSION 5 tate of Kansas CAL W. FLOYD, CHAIRMAN RAYMOND E. ADAMS, SECRETARY MAPLE HILL W. J. BROWN FALL RIVER OFFICE OF JESSE C. HARPER s LIVESTOCK SANITARY COMMISSIONER jeueen a WILL J. MILLER K HIATTVILLE COMMISSIONER TOPEKA E. L. TUSTIN GRINNELL GEO. A. RATHMAN OFFICE PHONE 7050 E. I. WASHINGTON LONG DISTANCE 74 CHIEF VETERINARIAN MANHATTAN STANLEY GENTRY SUPERVISOR SALES March 22, 1945 Dre Forrest C. Allen, Director Department of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Phog: Quig arrived on time this noon and I tried to give him as fine an introduction as possible. Ernie as usual made a good talk and about 275 were present. He referred to you as an outstanding Kansan in athletic work. Many thanks for the information sent me regarding Quig's early activities. I used practically all of it. My best wishes. Cordially yours, A444 WdJMv March 17, 19468. State House, Topeka, Kengas e Dear Bill: E I am sending a tear sheet of our basketball brochure for the 1944-'45 season. This morning when I went in to see Ernie to ae get the information, he seid, "Why don't you send that sheet from the basketball brochure?" | There was one thing I told you in yesterday evening's con- versation regarding his 65-yard rw touchdown on Thanksgiving Day 1900 against Missouri. I was at. old Western League Park at 16th and Prospect and saw Ernie Quigley, a young substitute, enter the Kansas line up in the second half and run 65 yards around Missouri's deft end for a touchdown to tle the score 6 to 6. Missouri had previously scered in the first half. He impressed me as being one of the fastest rumers in football that I have ever seen in uiform. This proved true because he was & sprinter on the Kansas track team later. Trust this gives you the dope you want. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, POA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. Eno. Five-Star Final Allen Wants MacArthur As Amateur Sports Czar LAWRENCE, Kan., Feb. 2—It begins to look as though Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s “cleanup” jobs will never end. Phog Allen, Kansas basketball coach, who started yelling a few months ago-about how gamblers were getting to basketball players, wants the five- star Pacific boss to clean up gambling on college sports as soon as he finishes cleaning up the Japs. Allen, who considers himself Mr. Basketball in the Midwest, insists he would not consider taking such a job himself. “I’m not after any job; I have one,” he shot back when asked if he would like to fill the position of collegiate sports czar which he proposed. ’“T would. feel highly honored if the college presidents offered me the job, but I wouldn’t accept it in any shape or form. ‘But I know what’s wrong and I haven’t been afraid to speak out against it when | the NCAA wouldn’t do it,” he said. Thorough Renovation Needed “It will take a great organizer and Gen. | MacArthur, who has always been a great | sports fan, would be the man to give col- \Jegiate sport the thorough renovating it i meeds. There are plenty more things he | could look into, such as college baseball coaches acting as scouts for big league teams, sub rosa payments to athletes and | other evils.” Allen said last fall that a scandal would develop such as the one which brought indictments to two men on charges of bribing five Brooklyn College | basketball players. And the Kansas ‘mentor has carried on a one-man cam- | paign to have college presidents convene, | Mame a sports czar and take control out of the hands of the NCAA. Allen claims the NCAA is_ useless because “it is run by a bunch of money | grabbers who want to perpetuate them- | selves in office.” ; Phog Allen I Would Be Honored, But... Canucks in Tie With Hawks, |-l MONTREAL, Feb. 2—The last-place Chicago Black Hawks pulled a major sur- prise here last night when they displayed thai- o dofa i e p a came the THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR February 14, 1945. pr. 2s 0, Biten; Robinson Gymnasiun, Campus. Dear Dr. Allen: I just want you to know how important I feel the work of the War Memorial Committee will be. We shall all appreciate greatly your serving on it, and I hope very much that you can arrange to attend the first meeting which Justice Wedell has called here for February 24. Cordially, Deane W. Malott, Chancellor. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY CAPITAL FIVE MILLION DOLLARS ESTABLISHED 1889 OKLAHOMA City, OKLA. ‘ January 16, 1945 TRUST DEPARTMENT KENT B. HAYES, VICE PRES. & TRUST OFFICER A. N. MURPHEY, ASSISTANT TRUST OFFICER Cc. P. WRIGHT, ASSISTANT TRUST OFFICER Dre Fe. Ce Allen, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansase Dear Dre Allen: I have your letter of January 15 and I will contact you Saturday morninge Verne Long and I will have four cars available for that afternoon. Sincerely yours, ANM:MJJ ee W E; S ‘E RIN a ee phis is a full-ate DL=Day Letter j Telegram or Cable- NL=Night Le am unless its de- V my (3 = 3 Serene fare ed character is in- (. LC=Deferred Cable dicated by a suitable . symbol above or pre- NLT =Cable Night Letter (A. N. WILLIAMS ~ Ship Radiogram f" PRESIDENT - The filing time shown in the date line on telegrams and day letters is STANDARD TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination 7KAZ89 12=ATCHISQN KANS 12 226P KU ATHLETIC: DEPT = F ceding the address. -ATIN © ACLEN NIGHT ‘ELEPHONED To. Bm — ime | s ce THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE Pebruary 7, 1945. time the ve when the stronger male was able te pursue and capture the female. . The gemes of "Hare and Hounds", and "Hide and Seek", - all came from 4 use in track. Therefore, if track, the oldest game in the world, cannot attract an enthusiastic following there is something wrong, and one of those things is that track is not a team game but an individual sport. They call it a team game, but as you pointed out in your colum, a fellow competes either against himself or an individual, and it becomes an individual sport. When a teammate on a team loses, the whole team loses, even though one man may play such an outstanding game that if he were in track he would be a champion, but he loses with his gang and that is the great impelling power that draws spectators to the ringside or to the stadium, - because there is a mass struggle. Through the hundreds and thousands of years that the masses have been struggling, a team game appeals to the mass more than an individual contest. You remember the Greek who won the Marathon and fell dead after - delivering the message. Of course it was a message of victory in war, if I am correct in my memory. So distance ruming has always appealed, even before the Marathon. Now, just why dees not track draw? Because, as I said, it is an — individual geme. The only teamwork in track is relays, and the baten put teamwork in feotracing. If coaches were extremely wise they would have a series of relays, and sandwich in the individual events as sideshows. I was quick to see this back in 1925 when we founded the Kansas Relays. It oZe= : : more national drawing power in the way of publicity than all of events, or all they will ever draw at Kansas. The coaches of primarily responsible for not drawing more people because, again, back on the prima dema idea of the high jump or special events, and out so long that people leave the field for lack of thrills. contest could be over in one how’, the same as a basketball game, ve a crowd thrilling to these exciting relays. Have relays in everybedy could run - according to weight and size; lightweight relays, relays; football relays; outdoor mareeie hurdle relays. People the passing of that baton. ‘seeps if it T, 4 if And teo, a track man is highly selfish because he thinks only of himself and his om competition. So is a basketball or football man selfish, but Sarough lmving to struggle with his fellow for viotury, he learns to be more unselfish. | Your argument that too often the high school ceacsh is a college football or basketball player whe knows nothing about track, is very weak indeed. The reason the schools hire a football or basketball player as coach is because people go te see those games and @o not go to see track to any appreciable extent. If they had, track would be tops in the way of coaching. o Why don't yWhytake a new angle and study the thing? I would be glad to talk to you some time. : ; Hom, as far an cond tioning is concerned, all piystoal training cxyinyte fee tame wade it takes more conditioning to play basketball than any other sport. I have known track men that never trained, and still won is sen Gath tei Waa Chediak ea ea ieee at-all, in my opinion, or, at least, to any @ preciable extent. But having the Olympic Games every four years stimulates track to an unusual degree. I am happy for that and with that we might have more track, but if you 7 would look at the financial records of an athletic association you would be to see how many thousands track costs as compated te the other sports. I told you, people still determine the coaching persennel by what is in at the gate. Sinee the schools do not subsidize these sports, they — ee eae hie Aes etd Ani XL peed ayictt, test 2 reacted Ao wien 5 Gites OF the two sports - football and basketball. In the sporting vernacular, as | well as others, - "that which deserves to live, lives." I am talking about sustaining a sport from its own resources. i E With all good wishes, I am -~ Sincerely yours, Directer of Physical Education, FCA:AH i Varsity Basketball Coach. e dist ated to each sol@ier when his mail ‘te Wot his ee rereren ) Dat ett wo LB Ean nce j 194... . be pio to advise you that my opie address now is—* ee Ff hes Co Pee wo gen GD KS (Grade) _ (Name) 4 (Army Serial No.) 1471 ENGR. MAIN. We. tk sufficient number of aes cards rf adgtess i is changed to permit him to send @nd, APO nol POLS eg Postmaster LT aT (Strike out if not applicable) a Signature. WK, - pele NotrgE.— Newspapers and magazines may need your old address for correct processing. My old address was. an ee et Ht eee cee ne enne W. D.,A.G.O. Form No. 204 _ April & 1943 S44 Prageoy ave, oe Toph The Paul Masoners ee Sera mst S ip RES as a Eee . Ss ee Battech # abs hi den ill te i Box 869, Eugene, Oregon, January 7, 1945. Dr. Forrest ©. Allen, Director of Physical Education, University of. Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Dr. Allen: - : Thank you for your letter of December 27. It was forwarded to me at Eugene, where I am employed in the University of Oregone I am rather sorry to report that at the present time I -am teaching only freshman compositione My letter of December 16 was, incidentally, written after I had arrived in Los Angeles for a visit during the holidays. Very naturally I am glad that you could tell me that you knew nothing of the unfortunate matter of which I wrote. In spite of my statement that I did not imply that the rumor - if one can call it so much as that - came from your Department, perhaps my deliberate vagueness in one respect may have left you in doubt. It may be best for me to ‘tell you that the woman who made so much of the matter =. | at the place I mentioned gave a former member of the coaching staff of the University of Kansas aS authority for the statements regarding my “career" in-Lawrentee Incidentally, again, I am afraid that: I cannot take up this matter directly with any of peopleimost diréatly concerned with it at that place until this elderly woman has been retired from the executive position that she now holds - barring, of course, a real emergency. Fears have been expressed, as to retaliation she might make. This cannot fail | to give you some notion as to her temperament. I have myself the feeling that this pars ~= ticular matter may have been brought up by her to strengthen her position after I had left; that is, further to justify her engineering my dismissal. I am told that she was.not treated sympathetically in respect to this pSeRt( by some, so I conjecture that she had a desire to justify herself. I shall spare you the details of her personal hostility to me while I was under her direction =- the distress that was occasioned because I gave a "C" on a theme to a girl who was the ward of a close friend of hers and who “had never had less than a A in high school". It is all very petty, I should say, as you can judge from the one incident. As to what may have been back of everything, I cannot say. Before I wrote to you I had written to another person in Lawrence,who, I believe, usually knows as much about what is, and has been, said around the University as anyone, and that person could give me no information. I am naturally not inclined to be any more “public™ than is absolutely necessary about so disagrezable and dangerous a subject. This brings me to express my regret that there may have been something unfortunate in the tone of my letter of December 16; but if you will consider the serious result to me of the matter (as asserted by the woman of whom I have written) after four years of strenuous | service at the particular place, you can understand, I knowe Thank you very much for you offer to be of assistance to me on occasion. And I may say that a if at any time you see occasion for assisting me, I fr - Should appreciate anything you doe Se ee I was here last year also. Eugene is a Quiet, rather uninspiring place, oe the campus is- attractive. You may have been here. Last year the enrollment was so nearly exclusively feminine that it seemed like a girls' college, but this year there are a few more young men and various returned service men. (I am forgetting the fact that for much of last year we had army men here.)- I believe that there is a rather good basketball ine at least'we' have won games lately. With best regards, I am Yours most Sincerely, A asaniie ees / January 25, 1945. Mr. A. N. Murphey, First National Bank and Trust Company, - Oklahoma City, Okla. Dear Murph: : _T have put your son, Lt. A. N. Murphey, on our Jayhawk Rebound mailing list and will drop hima little note. And I am also putting you on our Rebound list. I believe that you will enjoy it. In fact, I thought I had you on the mailing list, but in checking I find that I failed to in- corporate your name. I am sorry for that. And too, Murph, TI want to thank you for your wonderful high-grade type of loyalty that gets things done. On Monday noon I had the pleasure of telling Raymond Rice, W. “, Davis and Ogden Jones of your greetings. Each one of them wanted to lmow all about you and how you are getting - along. I told Ogden about his wedding incident with you, told W. W. about your mutual Army samp experience, and told Raymond Rice that you considered him the outstanding lawyer in the country. Raymond said, “Well, I only hope that I can keep him fooled." So you see he appreciated the kind word. I am sending Mr. and Mrs. Dave MoKown a used basketball for their sons, Bob and Dick. They have been unable to get one, so I know they will. appreciate it. : Again thanking you for your many generous friendships and gestures to our dayhawkers, I am, with kindest personal regards, Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, PCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach.