Che National Collegiate Athletic Assoriation

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PROFESSOR W. B. OWENS PROFESSOR FRANK W. NICOLSON BRICADIER-CENERAL PALMER E. PIERCE
STANFORD UNIVERSITY WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR CHARLES W. KENNEDY
CALIFORNIA MIDDLETOWN, CONN. MAJOR JOHN L. CRIFFITH
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MR. MALCOLM FARMER, Yale University, First District PROFESSOR C. E. BILHEIMER, Gettysburg College THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY ke
PROFESSOR P. O. BADGER, New York University, Second District PROFESSOR W. D. FUNKHOUSER, University of PROFESSOR P. O. BADGER S
PROFESSOR N. W. DouGHERTY, University of Tennessee, Third Kentucky DIRECTOR W. J. BINGHAM
District PROFESSOR H. H. KING, Kansas State College PRESIDENT T. J. DAVIES
ee lL. W. St. Joun, Ohio State University, Fourth PROFESSOR E. L. LARSON, University of Arizona Dr. F. H. EWERHARDT

Dr. F. H. EWERHARDT, Washington University, Fifth District
PROFESSOR JAMES C. DOLLEY, University of Texas, Sixth District

PROFESSOR C. C. May, University of Washington DIRECTOR R. A. FETZER
PROFESSOR T. N. METCALF, University of Chicago prorrssor L. W. ST. JOHN

PROFESSOR S. C. PALMER, Swarthm 11
PROFESSOR C. L. ECKEL, University of Colorado, Seventh District - ree Frownenon H.C. Waeeee
PROFESSOR H. C. WILLETT, University of Southern California,
Eighth District Washington University

December 8, 1938

Mr. Gwinn Henry
Direotor of Athletics
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Mr, Henry:-

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is organizing a basket-
ball tournament to be held at the conclusion of the 1938-39 season. This tour-
nament, organized at the suggestion of the National Association of Basketball
Coaches, is to be the only official National Collegiate Basketball Tournament.
Mr. H. G. Olsen, of Ohio State University, is the Chairman of the Tournament
Committee, and Forrest C. Allen,of the University of Kansas, is the Chairman
for the Fifth District. They are very anxious that all member schools cooperate
fully. Further communication in regard to the plans for the holding of this
tournament and possibly qualifying tournaments in the various districts will be
sent to you very shortly.

Your active support is needed in order that the development of so-
called national tournaments by non-collegiate interests be retarded. There has
been a growing tendency toward the promotion of this type of tournament, som-
times under the guise of charity and sometimes, apparently, for private gain
of promoters. As an example, may I site, that in our district, during the last
two years, groups of private individuals, not officially associated with our
Universities, promoted a tournament calling it the National Intercollegiate
Basketball Tournament.

Naturally, since the National Collegiate Athletic Association is
sponsoring their own official tournament, we members of the Fifth District
should give it our unlimited support to the exclusion of any other national
tournament. It seems to me that it is not out of order to suggest to all mm-
bers of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, who last year lent their
support to the National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament, to transfer their
allegiance to our own National Collegiate Basketball Tournament.

Yours very truly,

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fhesm F, H, Ewerhardt