meee

You speak of the loss of Dick Harp, Don, and Bruce, and
of our possible weakend defense. I know and appreciate their talents
and praise their exceptional abilitiese Yet we lost the championship
the year beforee You saw Dick during his junior year pley perhaps the
sourest basketball] imaginablee His fault was not physical, It was
mentale Since I have the job of coaching the team, why not leave these
problems of coaching entirely up to me, realizing that for 22 years
at Kansas I have been faced with such similer problems.

What I most desire is your loyalty to the extent that you
Will realize that I know my business well enough to reshape both the
offense and the defense to meet this exceptional situation. And I will
do it, I assure youe "Yours is not to reason, ‘Why?' Yours is but to do
or diee" |

Your grades are not good enough for a boy who has as much
intelligence as you havee You should now have better than a B averazee
Ralph, I do feel deeply the failure that you have made so far in college-=
the failure to make the great mass of athletes and athletic followers
admire youe You felt this absence of admiration enough last football
season to speak to Gwinn Henry about ite The basketball season did not
offer the same embarrassments in your personal relationships, but the
bare facts are that you have not been a leader either on or off the
campuse Emphatically, I have desired this very very much for youo

I have said things verypleinly. So that you will not mis-
understand mée I admire you very much for the same straightforwardness -
expressed in your letter. You have been honesto When you come back,

I want to sit in a room with you and tell you some things which are
awkward on papere They will deal with the proper conceptions of train«
ing, conditioning, loyalties, friendships, dating, and your possible
ultimate successe When I return to Lawrence, about September 8th,

I hope to have this friendly and important conferences

Sincerely,

PeSe The very next day after our luncheon together in Topeka, I called
on Je Vo Hamilton and Miss Anne Laughlin at the NeYeAo Headquarters
rée Fred Harrise I do not lose many opportunities in endeavoring
to put one of our boys over. I thank you for again calling my
attention to thise