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sophomores, when it comes to tough competition.

This will make my 25th year in coaching basketball at the
University of Kansas. My first two years were in 1908 and 1909 when we
won the Missouri Valley championsliip both years. I returned in 1919
and the first basketball season of 1920. On that team were Arthur
"Dutch" Lenborg, the Northwestern coach, and Coach Johnny Bunn who
coached Hank Luisetti at Stanford, and who is now Dean of Men at that
institution. We did right well by ourselves, especially since Kansas
was then in the cellar.

We have won 16 championships in 24 years. That is the total
of championships won in both the Missouri Valley Conference and the Big
Six. The Big Six was organized in 1930 and we have won 9
championships in 1% ye in that organization.

Be 2,

I was also coach at the Central Missouri State Teachers
College at Warrensburg, Missouri, from 1914 to 1919, and we won 7 con-
secutive championships in the old Missouri conference, That was when
colleges and teachers colleges were combined in the Missouri conference.

: We have no All-American talent. Just a bunch of boys that
we hope will give a good account of themselves. I have some big boys,
_ however, this year, and this is the third time in my 25 years of coach-
ing that I have had a boy over 6 ft. 5. So tall boys are like good
tackles - they are pretty important.

I trust this gives you enough of a story for a yarn.

Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education and Recreation,
FCA:AH Varsity Basketball and Basebell Coach.