Neligh City Schools

F. DON MACLAY, SUPERINTENDENT
DEAN D. NYWALL, PRINCIPAL

NELIGH, NEBRASKA

January 7, 1940.

Dr. Fe C. Allen,
University of Kansas,

Dear Dr. Allen:

I attended the Kansas Coaches Clinie at Topeka this year.
(I‘M that big blonde that asked how to guard a hot left
handed shot when said left hander is playing right forward.)
Your suggestion that we use lambs wool as a base for pro-
tecting a "bad knee" was appreciated. I meant to speak to
you and get the details of the technique but didn't.

Would you please explain just how you cut the matérial and
then the proper method of taping? Did I umderstand you
right in that the taping is the same as at any other time
except the entire job is done on the hide of the animal
instead of the boy? This big six-foot-two-inch rebound
artist of ours is a boy built just about the same as
Ralph Miller so the measurements should be approximately
the same.

On return to Neligh I told my superintendent, Don Maclay
of Nebraska, about attending your basketball demonstration.
Don told me that he learned his basketball from Black,

one of your boys. Don, as you may perhaps recall was

Big Six center in 1931.

I had a few words with Don Ebling after that Baker game.
_ Don was a student in Lindsborg High while I was practice
teaching.

I am enclosing a stamped envelope and will appreciate
any suggestions you might give.

Yours for better basketball,