Decerber 28, 1944.

Exeoutive Director, :
Central office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics,

New York 17, Neto

Dear Asa:

--f weknewledge with thanks your good letter of the 2st instant.

se trust that you had a very Morry Christmas end will have a Nappy New

‘Year, if we oan in this comtry wumder the conditions that we are now
facing. ee

Ves ‘J believe that sorresparidence, even if lengthy, would not be
the answer to ow’ situation. You talic about unsubstantiated stories, |
publicity for rumors, secondhand reports, and alleged happenings that
dq harm to college basketball. T am wondering where the N.CeAck. hos ©
x ell this time. There certainly have been many, many things ;
. Reappening. or exemple: the Jesse Owens episode in Cleveland, Ohio, _
when he mtriculated at Ohio State University at Coludwus (investigated .
by the outetanding and dominantly controlling officers of the Big i
and whitewashed); the Yverett Case-Pigcie lanbert-Sen Barry episode —
‘that the Big fen investigated, with s figgle-out and another whitewmsh.
fhe fuses were pinched off before they got to the powler keg.

| Asa, I wonder if you really think that the public is taling
the administrators of college athletics very seriously these dayse

7 I heave before me rules of the Big Ten and the Big Six. They
gre a joke because the rules are not being followed, and I kmow it and
_ thousands of others know it. On page 12 in the Big Six handbook under
‘peoruiting, is this rules "1. By Alwmi and Friends. The Conference

is opposed to the recruiting of prospective students by alumi and
friends, when the reason for such recruiting is thet the prospective
students are athletes. ‘The conference will make continued and positive
efforts to eliminate such recruiting. 2. By Members of Athletic :
Staffs. lenbers of athletic staffs shall not recruit prospective ath-
letes. The following are submitted as typical examples of recruiting: :

(a) Urging enroliment thr initioting correapondence, direct confer-
ence or indirect message. (b) Promising employment, loans, scholarships
or remission of fees. (oc) Indirectly contacting prospective athletes
by suggesting to alumi or friends that they endeavor to reorulit theme”

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