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BASKETBALL GOLDEN JUBILEE

NAISMITH MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
Sectegfield, Maas.

MAYOR ROGER L. PUTNAM

Chairman

October 31, 1941

ATTENTION: DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

As you doubtless know, this is the year of the Golden dubilee of Basket~
ball and teams in all parts of the country are going to play Golden Ball
Games. The revenue from these games is to go to the Naismith Memorial
Fund which will erect a Temple of Basketball at Springfield, Mass. --
the site of the first game -- in honor of Dr. James Naismith, founder of
the game. The Temple of Basketball will house a Museum and Hall of Fame
in which will be preserved all the data, records, and accomplishments of
teams and players, past, present and future.

If your team has designated one of its games as a Golden Ball Game, it
would help the Golden Jubilee campaign immensely if you would publish in
your football program a page publicizing it. Enclosed is suggested copy
for the page. All that is necessary to make the page appropriate for
your football program is to localize the copy on your own team.

The important thing is to specify which game has been designated as your
Golden Ball Game and also to print your complete 1941-42 basketball
schedule. By doing so you will give advance notice of the date of the
Golden Ball Game and at the same time additional publicity to your
basketball schedule.

Many thanks for your kind cooperation in this regard,

Sincerely,

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Roger L. Putnam

P.S. When you have finished with it, we would appreciate your giving
the enclosed material to the student editor of your newspaper, in order
that he may write up a story on the Golden Jubilee of Basketball.