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THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

COLUMBUS
DEPARTMENT OF Puysitcat EDUCATION |
L. W. Sr. Joun, Director November 7 3 1938

Dr. Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear “Phog"s

I am enclosing a brief outline of tournament plans.Would
you please give me the benefit of your observation regarding the same?

I should like to have youact as chairman of the selection
committee of N.C.A.A, district #5 and would like to have you select
two other members to serve with youe Your committee, of course, would
be charged with the selection of the team to represent district #5 in
the play-offs and, as I indicated in the sheet which I am enclosing,-
it seems to me that wherever possible we ought to make the selection
arbitrarily on the basis of record and, perhaps, personal observation.

If it should come down to the point where some member of your
committee, like yourself, is vitally concerned in this selection, then
it would seem that he should step aside and ask somebody to serve in his
lace. Suppose, for example, that Kansas was the best team in district
is, It would not look so good to have "Phog Allen and Company" selecting
the Kansas team to represent the district. I am sure you get what I mean.
But, seriously, we need your help in district #5. You did a swell job =
I should say the finest job ~- in the Olympic set-up of 1936 and everybody
that I have talked to have agreed that you are the one that should head
up this committee in your district.

If I may make a suggestion regarding the other two men = first
of all, select somebody whom you know will work at the job, someone who
is vitally interested in basketball and who has some standing in the basket-
ball world so that when your selection is made it will have a really fine
chance of meeting with general approval. I know that in some of the other
districts the chairmen are going to put on their committee one outstanding
newspaper man. I see no objection to this procedure and I see a good many
things in favor of using this means of getting favorable reaction by the
press toward this basketball tournament. If you do select a newspaper man,
then it would seem to me that the other man surely should be an N.C.A.A. man,
not necessarily a coache Perhaps you ought to take into accowmt too the
geography of district #5.

Just as soon as you have selected the other two men to serve with
you on the committee, will you please wire me their names and addresses? I
would prefer to release the publicity as to our committees from here when
we get all the selections ine I will certainly be looking forward to hearing
that you will agree to serve as chairman and I very much hope that you can