The National Collegiate Athletic Association

 

PRESIDENT HONORARY PRESIDENTS SECRETARY-TREASURER
PROFESSOR PHILIP O. BADGER PROFESSOR CHARLES W. KENNEDY JOHN L. GRIFFITH
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY HOTEL SHERMAN, CHICAGO, ILL.
WASHINGTON SQUARE MAJOR JOHN L. GRIFFITH HONORARY SECRETARY-TREASURER
NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. : PROFESSOR W. B. OWENS PROFESSOR FRANK W. NICOLSON
VICE-PRESIDENTS MEMBERS AT LARGE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Drrector Joun M. Harmon, Boston University, First District Dean L. K. Newiincer, Dartmouth College THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY
Proressor DupLEY DEGRooT, University of Rochester, Second District Director W. J. Brncuam, Harvard University ; ProFEssor W. B. OWENS
Dean A. W. Hosss, University of North Carolina, Third District Dr. Harry A. Scott, Rice Institute DrrectTor H. W. CLarK
Prorressor GrorGE L. Riper, Miami University, Fourth District Proressor L. W. St. JoHn, Ohio State University PRESIDENT T., J. Davies
Proressor H. H. Kine, Kansas State College, Fifth District CoLoneL Louis E. Hisss, United States Military DrrEcTor CLARENCE P, Houston
Prorsssor J. S. McIntosu, Southern Methodist University, Academy Proressor K. E. Lr1s
Sixth District Director NorTon PritcHETT, University of Virginia PRorEessor WiLBuR SMITH
PROFESSOR WILLIAM HuME, II., University of New Mexico, Seventh District Proressor H. C. WiLLett, University of Southern DrrREcCTOR KENNETH FAIRMAN
ProrEssor Joun W. Otmstep, U.C.L.A., Eighth District California

September 21, 1942

Dr. Forrest ©. Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Sir:-

The National Collegiate Athletic Association, at its annual
convention in Detroit last December, passed resolutions urging its
members to enlarge and intensify their physical training programs to
insure the proper physical conditioning of their students for the pro-
secution of the war, Many of the institutions comprising our member-
ship already have effective programs in operation, and many more will
initiate them with the opening of college this fall.

The vital importance to the war effort of these physical
hardening programs in the colleges cannot be overestimated. The exper-
ience of all branches of the armed forces with the men coming into the
service amply demonstrates the urgent need for full cooperation by the
colleges in this regard, in preparing their students for the task of
winning the war. The fact that most of the enlisted reserve programs
established in the colleges specifically require that a definite amount
of time be devoted to physical conditioning, indicates the importance
attached to this matter by the armed forces. This is definitely empha-
sized by Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, Chief of the Bureau of Naval
Personnel, Navy Department and Chairman, Joint Army-Navy Personnel
Board. In a letter addressed to college presidents, he states:-

"It is the hope of the Navy Department that the students of
all universities and colleges throughout the country will realize fully
the seriousness of the present war and the sacrifice and toil each must
make in order to fashion a total victory from it. It is further hoped
that the men of the universities will institute among themselves a
regime of self-discipline and conditioning in order better to complete
the immediate job at hand and prepare for the greater tasks to come,

It is sincerely urged that the college officials and faculty members
will support and participate in all such programs......"The rejection