Merch 7, 1942

Mire Coke Ke Bride
Sports Editor

Karses City Ster
Kansas City, Missourl

Dear Macs

I read your eporting comment of last evening with a good deal of
interest.

I do not care to take part in any controversy such as this. This
season makes my 24th year of coaching at Kansas and I will let my acts in those
24 years speek for themselves. i only care to mke this statement.

Thompson, Livingston and Fitzgibbons were more oeeniniie repulsive
the second half than they were the first half of the Nebraskn-Kansas game at
lawrence. I wis sitting on the players* bench with our players, and next to me
sat Hal Ruppenthal, one of ovr cheerleaderse When Thompson danced before one
of our players, who wes starting to throw a free«throw, showing his maniacally, mcphi-
stophelic? grim, I will adnit that I could take it no longere I leaned over
and said to Hal Ruppenthal, who was parked on a thin ledge beneath the scorers '

I said, "Theat is Dean Thompson's young son at the University of
Nebrasl@e Dean is the fean of Men at the University of Nebraskie |
The Dean should see him nowe" I imagine that I yelled this to Ruppenthal rather
vociferously because the crowd had already challenged Thompson, especially as
he seemed to be the greatest offenders

All during the first half they yelled "Rose Bowl" and "Big Shot® at
Nebrasia so I felt it justice to Mr. Thompson's acts that he he should be made
conscious of the fact that he was the Dean of vents son and that he perhaps owed
something to his papa in the wy of respectable attitude,

! Now for the Nebraska game at Lincoln. Our Kensas team went out to the
Nebrasim fieidhouse an hour and fifteen minutes before game timee AS we walked
through the outer door and got into the inner part of the gymmsium I was accosted,
not accidentally I think, by Cy Sherman, who seemed to be waiting for mee For

the past several years Cy has shown rather an aversion to me and I assure you that
this has been mutually happy, as far as I have been concerned. I have never cared

@ great deal for Cy Sherman after my experiences in the fall of 1919 when Nebraska :
withdrew from the Conference and all the Missouri Valley schools abrogated their
contracts with Nebraska with the exception of Kausas, whose policy was this, That
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schedule no other gamese

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