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"April 16, 1943.

| Mr. Hal Midd lesworth,. et Bg a See gee -
Sports Editor, .- Tee OR eee i pe ens

The Daily Oklahoman, < ._. oT acini eas ae ies Fal
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I_aclnowledge with thenks your good letter of April 14th.
May I say this, off the record, that Clyde MoBride was much more
incensed over what the Oklahoma Aggies did here. at. Lawrence than I
was. Frankly, I didn’t feel as.deeply.as.some of the others until
some of the spectators came up. to me. after the game and.said that...
for the past two years both of the Oklahoma Aggie exhibitions have
been beyond reproach. .I am speaking of their intensely close and
aggressive guarding by doublack up and whacking down on the man
with the ball long before he got to the goal. I am telling you this :
off the record because I would not want it printed as it might cause
misunderstanding.

Mike Getto, the All-American tackle of Pittsburgh, and a two-
fisted fellow who is an advocate of the’ go-get-‘em type, said to ne,
nD ee ee ee eee ee Se I wouldn't have
come up. I wouldn't walk across the street to see games like the
Oklehoma Aggies have played the last two years here.” And there were
scores of other virile, aggressive people who disliked the exhibition.
They seemed to think it was too flagrant to be called a game.

The Chancellor called me Monday morning and said, "We do not
want to play those fellows any more.” I laughed and said, "Well, .
Chancellor, we have a game at Stillwater on the 17th." He said,
"Don't play them. Cancel it.” I explained to him, of course, that
that was impossible. ‘The Chancellor is not the old fogey type, but
he is a young, keen business man who was assistant dean of business
at Harvard University. He is the type of man that President Brandt
of Oklahoma is - cultured, keen, genteel and aggressive. So you see,
I had mounting opposition.

Clyde McBride had come downto the game with Ab Hinshaw, and
frankly I think that McBride's attitude was more on account of the way
they treated the officials than any other thing. By leaving Kurland
on the bench there was an attitude upon Hank's part to infer that there
was no use to put anybody else in there, you couldn't win the game any-
how. So don't you see, the resentment was against the officials, and
Mac and Hinshaw being very close friends, I think Mac took up the
cuggel for Ab. I do not believe that it was resentment of McBride

against the Oklahoma Aggies for what some people thought was roughing
of the Kansas players. I believe that I am wight in this conclusion.