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officials and the two coaches into such a meting.

T alse think that when the Big Six basketball coaches
heve a meeting and draw up agreements such as using practice balls,
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have all of these agreements go out from yow office, making it |
more official than from the secretary of the coaches’ association,
_ then they would carry more weight. Ab Hinshaw told me that he did
not get such a list of agreements and interpretations this year.
Don't you think that a letter coming from you would renew a lot of
these agreements in such a way that the coaches would be expected
to take the responsibility for certain things and perhaps the ath-
letic directors take the responsibility for certain things. I am
thinking of good or new practices balls for the visiting team. It
seems as if the coach should be held responsible for that. The
practice of photographers fleshing pictures in the eyes of players !
should perhaps be handled by the administration. At kast somebody
should handle it; as it is now, it is a hit or miss proposition.
It is only just as good as the agreement of that individual coach.

» 1 believe that somebody should take the responsibility
for certain tings which in many cases are not being dow at all.

Please understend thet I am not trying to tell you how
to run your office, but I am trying personally to obliterate as
mezy unpleasantifes when we go other places as possible. When a
team comes to Kansas the officials are put in a private room where
there is no bother from anyone. The visitors are accorded every
comtary “hat is posathia: for ua:to exkend tie in: the way ofan .

ttendant wie will get then what they desire. They are furnished
new practice balis, end so forth. dnd some places in the Big Six
the officials are put in a dressing room and the coaches of other
sports freternize with them while they are dressinge Personally,
I think we should have an agreement that nobody should go in that
room but the officials, and everybody else should stay out. This
is a practice badly handled, and I think it needs some attention.
You and I know very well the psychological effect of such procedure.

 

Very cordially yours,

Director of Physical Bducation end Recreation,
PCA:AH Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach.