F. S.CRANE, PRESIDENT C.L.MITCHELL, SECRETARY Ss ewan” FMBOSSING BANK STATIONERY - OFFICE, FURNITURE TOPEKA, KANSAS Auge 31, 1938 Mr.Forrest CseAllen,Director Physical Education, University of Kansas, —_—-* Lawrence, Kansase 0 Stationery and Office Supplies Dear Forrest: Office Furniture Your letter of August 29th received and appreciated Mechanical Equipment very muc he and Repair Department Mimeographs Typewriters Will be glad indeed to "corpulate" with Earl Adding Machines Falkenstein and I am looking forward with much Check Writers anticipation to the big games this yeare Check Protectors Stapling Machines I shall look forward to seeing you, too, if anyone Large and Small should ask yoOue Etc., Etc., Etc. 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These schools comprise that other conferences Drake, Oklahoma Aggies, ee es aa eee ae — ee eee opel ‘ 5h Stil wean: tens a we sie Se. Nina on tole in Canons, Oklaio is @ la tnd Soutiwoeter Colleges The antithesis you have in (idlaham Ae & Me and the University of Oklehomae The thiv~ erst: ty of Cdaham plays @ hinpor-cipper, » Ben Hur cavaleade break up the | SOL Ses a Sh The Nine see ot basketbalie The team is couched by Hugh lcDermott, a very clever Scotch- ‘samy the bee Deu Steele Gahan: stuee 4990 br le Ae & Me is coached by Henry Iba, who knows his basketball and imows players wherever they may bee He always has a club that imows its way Southwestem is coached by George Gardnex, a very able-coach, and he plays the single post just owtside of the free throw linse. He | has two very clever players on the team who are ably supported by other May 5» 1938. | rie it ay it ti i rie file Su s. & i bid ieee il ie a 5 nat ae nie it va i hy it ii Hii tly age i at, a id i mitt Wu at i ahs a 35 Hs 2% qk Hil: eae By the way, this boy, Howard Engleman, has a brother who is with Phillips Petroleun Company at Midland, Texase His brother is Kemeth Ingleman. He is a graduate of Kensas State College, Manhattan, and is a civil engineer. If there is anything that you could do to help me out in my dilemmm I will appreciate it, but I want you to know that if this embarrasses you in the least please disregard my appeals You have been very fine to our mutual friend, Dre Paul Harringtone Lae ee winter was “mamma from Heavens Sane time I wat to drop in on my way through Kansas City and buy you a lunches i would enjoy knowing you bettere i remembering having met you one day when I spoke Rotary Club at the noon luncheons With every good wish, Iam oe Director of Physical Education, FCAsAH _ Varsity Basketball Coache — es i a | “8 if ~~ > elastie ‘2 June 28, 1938, spoken about to him. I + was a ge ean dagge 2 soc looked eo amd i ea tunes Gee oe a my funy an deatdod would tale Chdeago, Xiiin tad pulled &t up 0 co tat of Kansas City, told me that he saw 3 Si hee wee es eadee at ae tae want to tell you that this elastic sock is the finest at I have ever seene t ih ih ‘2 4 i i aH a ta a a Hea \ : ee \i i { Fea Y } \ \ \ \ te hi Ge 8 ihe \ \ Z : In the early part of the season wo beat Southwestern here by ten points, and down at Winfield by four points. Of course, Southwestern doos not maintain the anesyear residence eligibility rule had it him to < trying to benefit someone in my departmente He has been here since oh Hae ta i ; TE ee i; if ae iy : i rt H be male piel iH He ae i ee t aheqges 4 4S a i Ee i aie fee “qaeiga F : int : aes 2) : es 4 aH i qe it a Ae a i Tey Hit fal i Hope you have good luck, Dv. Sincerely yours, ss Pwestor of Physical Eduention, — POASAH | Varsity Baskethnll Coach. A European Edition 230 West 41st Street Published Daily and Sunday in Paris New York Sports Department, February 17, 1938. Dear Phog: By this time, I suppose, you are quite familiar with the plans of the Metrpolitan Basketball Writers Association for an invitation intercollegiate basketball tournament in Madison Square Garden in March. It has no pretensions to natimal championship rating--we realize its limitations--but we hope to get into it the very best obtainable teams. We hope through the tourney to empha- size our policy that basketball is a national, not provincial game, and give our enormous clientele here an opportunity for further comparison of the styles of play and officiating prevalent in other sections of the domain. I don't know what your schedule limitations are, or what clamps the university athletic authorities put on your activities, but would you be interested in an invitation to compete if one were extended on the basis of your 1937-38 record? Perhaps you are al- ready committed for obvious reasons to the Kansas City tournament. However, I*ll outline our plans. On March 9, we will match two metropolitan teams with two othe outstanding Eastern clubs in an elimination series. The winners of these games will qualify for the semi-final round scheduled for March 14 and the play-off for first place will be on March 16. Besides the two Eastern survivors, the teams in the semi-finals will be two invited from the Middle West or Far West. We will pay full expenses for 12 men (10 players, coach and manager) and give competing teams an opportunity to share on a per centage basis in the gate receipts. I'd like your reaction to this proposition. If Kansas U. cannot or would not be interested, perhaps you could suggest some worthwhile team out in your territory. I al- ready have been approached by Oklahoma, Oklahoma A. & M. and Southe western College. They all appear to have pretty good records and competent personnel, but I should like to have your unbiased judge- ment as to their worthe A. & M., IT understood, is a slow-breaking, possessive type of club whereas Oklahoma is strictly a race-horse brigade. Southwestern, I'm told, mixes its game well and is an interesting club. Anything youcan do to help me pick the team that will make the best showing and put on the most interesting game, certainly will be appreciated. As head of the association and its tournament committee, you can see what a job I have on my hands and how anxious I am to make this venture at least an artistic success. Some time ago I wrote to Dr. Naismith and asked the old ee A European Edition 230 West 41st Street Published Daily and Sunday in Paris New York gentleman if he would grant us permission to name the championship trophy for him and whether he would like to attend the tournament as our guest--all expenses to be paid by us. I never had a reply, so I presume that Dr. Naismith is not interested or feels that hav- ing allowed the K.C. tournament to name its trophy for him he does not want the country flooded with Naismith Cups. I can appreciate that. However, we are going to present a prize of some sort to the outstanding player in the tournament, one who combines a high degree of skill with fine competitive spirit and the type of sports- manship we like to encourage in college athletes. Maybe the good doctor would prefer that to bear his name. What do you think? If I don't see you before then, I hope to rally around with you at Chicago at the coaches' meeting. In the meantime, I would appreciate it very much if you could take the time to give me the benefit of your advice on thé situation out in your territory and tell me whether Kansas would like to come Hast. I'm sure wetd . enjoy having you if your record stands up. With kindest personal regards, I am Sincerely yours, i OOM wink, eo ee EBM/A THE © y \ AA “HE DREAM TOUCHDOWN" A load of barrels was always good luck to the batting i of the New York Giants under “Muggsy" McGraw, but @ never + + of=toceg ever aw . my left shoulder at the moon for good luck nor wes. I afraid of the so-called hoodoo number, 13e Even a black cat crossing my ee no omens—of terrors for mee | However, I have always played "hunches" and Oe is, this daye That is why the dream couse -- the only touchdown of the game -—materializede In the early fall of 1920, t-femd—myseké as Director of Athletics at oe of cant PD EM LTE as Coach of football as—weti—eas Head Coach of basketballs Our football team, oe but 162 pounds per man, was the lightest in our athletic history at Kansase passing and place kicking, had won its first two preliminary games against , en Emporia Kansas Teachers, and against Mark Bank's Drake University Bulldogse Iowa State, our next opponent, heavy and aggressive, had been highly teams relying entirely upon forwerd toutede Our situation looked none too promisinge In fact, the week's pre= paration was most disappointinge : In ae carly days—of coaching|{, formed the habit of taking a pencil and pad efpeper to bed with me, attac ¢ eDudionah hing them to the bedpost by a piece of hide ry a Oday 236--TARASC LO LG tv solutions—e weys came to me in x = strings the eerie meorates hours, Sete rer iably stheypvani ghpd under, the spell of day= light and the arduous duties agcompanying it mless I psoribbled them down on ellie een s : this pad for reper i I cannot explain the twilight zone between a dream and a hunche In fact, I cannot logically explain either a dream or a hunche The psychologist might roughly explain a dream as forces drivel by nervous or mental currents that we do not understands yet the incubation period might have been in previous } reactions occurring possibly months or years beforee The currents or forces 2 \ night, jell ror a period, then might flow at a most unexpected timee This funding of — the years of experiences might gush out pas a, sudden perfect conelusions . ? Mentha austen dint Panne Wrong ht Cassntn Car Lplauslien 9 3 va Log oxptem7this dreame How= ever, whether apparition, vision, premonition, oo dreamy or hunch, I shall relate the dream, as I told it, that day to the football team: I saw a Keisas &éroplane ‘with the faces of eleven Kansas gridiron warriorsy Biol fake was set out in baserelief in the fuselage of that ship as it took off on old McCook Fields And five of those men whom I saw in the fuse= lage that night were notin the anticipated starting Linglp of the | sfdaye In this dream, the Iowa State team had Pees off to Kansase The Kansas airship Onde ane sailed to the north, over the east goale In despair, the Iowa State players ee alart— folded their hands on their hips and gaspede This dream, was enough to convince me that the men that I saw in ship would be in my starting lineppe Arthur "Dutch" Lonborg, nem hye quarterback and field generale Ten minutes before game time we were huddled in the dressing room for final instructions and Lingup announcementse The Limeum came as a blaste "Boys, I had a dream last nighte I believe in hunchese I saw a Kansas aeroplane with the faces of eleven of you taking offe Some ot Tht ruses hie teal oh not been seen in a eriind Linek this yeare But et I'm going to play you just that waye Your ship swung from the west to the north and arose above that Iowa State fone you continued eastward to the eet gen I saw Harley Little playing ih Sk Miva se caon the ball tucked under his —_ Qo ctartoa from near our own goaleline and I watched him as he crossed Towa State*s goal-line with the hail in his possessione" [ "Dutch, listens if we win the toss, I want you to receives And whoever receives the kick-off must carry it up to the right and center of the field as far as possiblee, On the next seceeeding oe call Harley Little's ‘al 2. - ff : ge ae signal, pley 65 right@half around epsbends D6 you hear me, Duteh? I mean itt" A surprised and eager Lonborg shouted, "Yes, sird" Kansas won the toss and chose to receive the kickeoff, while Iowa State chose to defend the east goale Things asics working perfectly, and exactly a we had hopede The referee's whistle shriliea the signal for the starte The Kansas stands wore. on their feete The kickoff to Kansas oe Welch, diminutive rt Our — 1355 sean Kansas fullébaek took the Iowa State kickeoff on Pie goal-line and ran it back to right end center cor Bo ree - Dutch Lonborg and Se team aetaly remembering their dressing room in= structions, lined up quickly with Lonborg barking Harley Little's signal, "46" == rightihels around lerttonds After the first bay following the kickoff, the stands were still on their feete fick as a flash the ball was snapped to cesp ead who lined up on a me kick formation, but instead, bittte swept around lertConde. The blocking was avlen perfecte Little, allowing time for the blockers to take ews on Towa State teckieraud, ow, but two defensive. backs e Kansas! offensive backs and cut back from the soglees and on down te fielde remained as obstacles to vibe mad Lae guards ‘powlea the ee over, an | Kansas? Harley Little went over the owa. y y goal~line, stending up and qacouened for the only score of the entine gam s ‘Kansas 7. --Iowa State Ov-« A scintillating —: nie nf was manoeuvered ove xactly the same toe ; i as t pene oe to the a in Pe Did Ze cl downs Was it magic or pc 4 4, Phpud 4, iY op " 7 P / id oo day | e ae pay ts ploy ted 24 =< eo oe inekaric a OO EDS Oa ) Bal the play had worked successfully and Kansas had won the gamee The game was the scl te fhe ree Morale took a new thing P tos i the a came many interesting angles This mystic something’ This between the real and the umreali The victory was real, yet it now, seemed like a dream to the TVWew rhe Rack AV Ow it: Were they dreaming life or living dreams? They wonderedS+# "Lucky", pro= claimed the Iowa State players and their followerse But those Kansas gridsters 4 j who had listened to the pre=geme dressing room instructions knew that Lady luck had been flirting with Ae eeay S ee piitusieng + eg (Aaa eal ve ett Or was it the jemphasis placed updn gelesen 6 in-sueh-en—um- (Liaw ? aiund chane that caused the Kansas blockers to hewkh the opposition-over? /} ' or. pe Was it more than a dream thet left, nd-menber of the Cycl@mes* team standing to bar the way to Little's game-winning touchdown? Who kmows? And, after all, what difference did it make just then to the winners who had carried \ a see } 7 hig aleaed aie out their individual assignments? wo 4 hae aoe i, gah a 1 | i i , p Ae i 42 9 As of 878 Spa off 1 nhieil i i au it Lai ah 1 ay iii Nits 1 ll ill [ ily a ae If that is libel, brother, you ought to hear some- times what I actually say rather than writed — ‘With every good wish to you and yours, I am Sincerely your's, FOAAAt! ; ; E i _ ATHLETIC COUNCIL - THE CHANUTE JUNIOR COLLEGE W.W. BASS, Dean - 4H.A.JESTER, Business Manager .- H.C. MILLER, Chairman BYRON T. CROWELL, Coach . v.v.HAMILTON CHANUTE, KANSAS January 12, 1958 Dr. FF... Atien Kansas University Lawrence, Kansas Dear Mr. Allen I doubt if this letter is necessary but I am writing to inform you that Ralph did not play a game against the Junior College here during the holi-days. We refused to permit them to schedule a game. Showalter, Hayes, Unsell, Ashley, Ralph, H. 7. Jones and a bunch of grads did work out here in the high school gSymnasium practically every afternoon during the holi-days and they did practice against both the high school and college several times, merely in scrimmage practice, If practice scrimmage is an offense against Big Six Rules, he is guilty otherwise he has committed no infraction of the rule. Over zealous newspaper sports editors seem to be too much in need of something to write about. : Sincerely, a 2 Il fee EG, Miliee | 212 S, Evergreen Chanute, Kansas H C M Decenber 24, 1937% fron leather the same as that in President Roosevelt's room at the < dicteved Week Dw vee ak ls oe will ent0 me nent oie Seles | W so Ril gee de ail nc seiauasiance New , ieee. Sincerely yours, Varsity Basketball Coach, FOAsAH Divector of Physical Educations THE FMERSON “ANOTHER ROBT. MEYER HOTEL” 0.G.CLEMENTS MANAGER BALTIMORE & CALVERT STS. BALTIMORE, MD. 90-/ AIT OPERATED BY THE EMERSON HOTEL OPERATING CO. ROBT. R. 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NASHVILLE, TENN. * HOTEL FARRAGUT + * HOTEL WINECOFF WINDSOR HOTEL + * HOTEL ROOSEVELT KNOXVILLE. TENN. ATLANTA, GA. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. JACKSONVILLE. FLA. * RADIO IN EVERY ROOM DIRECT CONNECTED GARAGE + eid Spalding Brose, ° 1012 Grand Ave, Eansas City, Mos Dear Miss Millers Thank you very much for your good order of the 16th for ao only copy of "Batter Basketball". T en mailing this out this mornings 7 | Thanking you again, I en POASAH _-Dlregtor of Physical Educatdons December 21, 1937s Mr. Bert MoGrans, Sports Desk, | 7 Des Moines Register and Tritme, Des Moines, lowts Dear Rerte tan enclosing a biocreyhiceal sketch which may be helpful to you in your publicity. Looking forward to seeing you next week, I an Sincerely yours, ‘Varsity Basketball Coach, Direetor of Physionl Education. The Des Moines Register and Tribune Publishers of The Register, The Tribune, The Sunday Register Des Moines, Iowa More Than 300,000 Sunday Circulation December 135, 1937 Dr. Forrest C. Allen Basketball Coach University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Phog: I'm mighty glad that you are to appear with your team in one of the headline features at our coaching school. Sec tells me he wrote you asking that you inform me of the subject matter for your talk. I am enclosing a blank which will give me a few facts that I need when I announce you as a member of the coaching school staff. I notice that your new basketball book has appeared, but I haven't had a chance to look at it so far. I will be indeed grate- ful to receive the author's copy which you _ mention,” TI will appreciate a prompt reply on ~ your subject matter. a Looking forward to seeing you, I am Sf ‘ Sincerely, bm/hb Bert McGrane