December 29, 1941.

Mire Dan MeGuire,
Berkeley Daily Gazette,
Berkeley, California.

Dear Mr. ieGuire:

| Dre Prank Yerron Smith, of 2816 Heligass St., Berkeley,
California, enclosed a olipping from your colum in the Berkeley
Pally Gazette as of December 13 and eleo your Docenber 16th con-
tribution.

I was rather interested to learn that it is your thought
that hardly oa day goes by without the suggestion of some change
er other in basketball, and also that 1% was your conception that
— ruined football as a major sport at the University
of ° |

The fact that I played football and later conghed it at the
University of Xansas when we tied Nebraska 20-20 in 1920 is rather
interesting and emasing to me. On the Yonday morning following
this game in 1920 the students subsoribed $160,000 to build the
stadium that cost $660,000. I had charge of the drive, and for 18
years Iwas director of athletics here at the University of Kansas.
I have coached besketball here for 25 years, and only in the last
four years have I ever received any compensation for my coaching.

You being from Missouri doubtless are not interested in
Kansas background. 1 have always had the notion that « conch was
rightfully a member of the faculty and his eins end purposes regard-
ing the welfare of the young men who are students,;in the college or
university should parallel that of other members of the faculty.

I em always happy to think of euch young men as Dean John
Bunn, of Stenford University, former basketball coach at Stanford,
who was one of my quarterbecke bask in 1920 and who played in the
Kansas-Nebraska geme that day. Coach Arthur “Dutch” Lonborg, of
Northwestern University, was the other quarterback of the football
team in the samo game in which John Bunn participated. Bunn was an
engineer and Lonborg was a lawyer. Neither of them followed
their training in the University so far as technical instruction
was concerned, but both men took their places in leadership, and
after all, in my opinion, that is the function of the University -
to teach students to find sources and to develop leadership.

Since I believe in the freedom of the press I have no-
criticism at all of what you say, and I had hoped that you had the