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OKLAHOMA FF _y TT I MS
THE FARMERS-STOOG MA

     

  

‘April 14, 1943

Dr. Dorrest C. Allen
Univepsity of Sansas
awrence, “an.

Dear Doctor Allen:

I'm sorry if my comments on the selection of Yklahoma for
this district s representative in the N.C.A.A. playoff were construed
by anyone as @ charge that you actually got in touch with anyone
to attempt to influence his vote in the matter. I do realize that
your position on N.C.A.A. matters would preclude that, if nothing
else. ee

What I was trying to convey (and I must have failed as a
newspaperman) was that your opinions and judgment carry enough®
weight with Clyde McBride that he, perhaps unconsciously, voted
as you would have voted--- and, ! thought, as would have pleased
you.e I am interested to learn that your opinion was the “ggies
should have Aad a playoff with Uklahoma. I apolbgize if I wronged
you in my original assumption.

1 met Mr. MeBride in Kansas City at the playoffs and he
was still pretty warm about the Aggie-Kansas game in Lawrence and A
very frank in saying his vote was influenced by that game. He was ‘aaa
equally frank in his admiration for you. :

_ I'm glad to hear now that your pique, if there was any, over
that Lawrence game did not have any bearing on the ultimate
selection.

Let me offer belated congratulations on Kansas' season and
obse#ve that if Uncle “am had delayed his call a little longer, this
talk about N.C.A.A. selections would have been non-existent--- since
the “ayhawks would have been in Kansas City and the also-rans at
home. I thmought “ay “vans was one of the finest players I saw

all season.

Hal Middlesworth