December 21, 1943.
Dear Mac:

I am glad to see that you are in the lend of the living again. I
was a little worried when I failed to see your sporting comment day after
day in the Star. J knew they had you flat on your back or else you would
have had that coliwm out. |

fhe man who acashed the University of Indiana when they played Kansas
U. at Kansas City in March, 1940, was Branch MoCGracken, a graduate of the

University of Indiana. MoCracken neve#t had played under me (Allen). I do
not knowof any coach in the state of Indiana at the present time who

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