September 19, 1941.

Mr. Mack McGinnis,
West Salem, Ohio.

Dear Mack:

This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 15th
instant. I wish that I might have time to give you a detailed account
of the personnel of all the teams, but I am rushing for an appointment
at the present time; hence will have only a moment to sketch the
situation. :

Louis Menze at Iowa State, who tied for the Big Six along
with Kansas, has the most veterans back, and with what he has coming up
they are the logical champions to repeat this year. They had exc
fonally tall boys and they are high scorers, and I believe Louie will
be tough.

Bruce Drake's Oklahomans will be studded with high school
stars and he will return a large number of his personnel for the coming
year. Gerald Tucker, the Winfield, Kansas, all-state high school star,
whe is 6 ft. 5 and weighs 220 pounds, should make an ideal pivot man
and will be difficult for anybody to stop. The wise ones are picking
the Oklahomans to give plenty of trouble. It was Tucker who enrolled
at Kansas State and after the middle of the semester withdrew and went
to Oklahoma. This movement caused quite a furor in the Big Six Confer-
ences

Nebraska's Coach Lewandowski has Sid Held and a group of
Cornhuskers that are enthusiastically backed by the Cornhusker follow-
ers to stage a real come-back and put Nebraska in the first division.

Jack Gardner has let it be known that his Kansas Staters
will definitely be in the titular hunt. He has a veteran team of
giants together with a great many high school stars.

George Edwards, of Missouri, has two giants, one 6 ft. 6,
and one 6 ft. 8, together with leading veterans like Storm, 6 ft. 4,
and a nucleus from his last year's team. He also has some star high
school replacements that should make Missouri very tough indeed.

Kansas lost Kline, Engleman and Allen. Bob Allen is now
at the University of Pennsylvania studying medicine. Engleman is with
the Phillips Petroleum Company at Bartlesville, and Kline is in the
Navy. We will have a group of sophomores, and sophomores are still