Dan Partner Page 2 Jane 22, 1941

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No, Dan, we will not even be BigeSix Champions. If we should
get a tie out of it, which I think is more than unlikely, then the other
teams" percentage will be better because we do not have a well-balanced
team that holds the opponents low enough in score, nor do we get enough
because we do not have enough goal shooterse However, we are making a
courageous fight out of it and I was tickled pink over the performance
of our boys at Manhattan, ‘They really do have intemtinal fortitude when
it cones to meeting the “lion in his dens" They had it set up for us for
& perfect K-State victory.

Frankly, I think, Tan, that Engleman's hitting has raised the
morale of the team considerably, and while he might have an off night
it perhaps will be when they play two men on him and when they do they
will release one of our other boys who, I think, may bag enough goals to
mike up for ite I believe that this morale angle for the entire team is
& pretty good angle to hit one

Now, here is a little inside dope, Dan, I wish you would treat
confidentially, Unglemm is one of the finest boys in the world, but
when a team is played up as only 4 oneeman team too much, it might cause
a slight resentment on the part of the other boys, even though ingleman
would have absolutely nothing to do with ite I would like for you to_
play up, if you can some way, about the courageous fighting support that
the other boys give Engieman. They fight their hearts out and are happy
for him because they realize that all of them are winnings

| i stated that I thought Engleman played a marvelous game, and one
that was near perfection, but no team can win on one man's effort. It takes
the combined fighting attitude of the entire group to wine Therefore, it
Still is e fiveeman team, supporting Engieman as the top mane

There is not @ boy that played dow at Manhattan the other night
who uses tobacco or takes a drink in or out of seasons There was Engleman,
Kline, Bob Alien, Sollenberger, Hunter, Hall, Walker, but that also goes
for Biii Hogben and Jim Arnolde That is the reason more than anything else
why these boys are fighterse They are the most conscientious bunch of
trainees I have seen and they just stay in there and fight wmtil the cows
come homes |

: ' Really I did not think we would have a chance. I thought the
psychology of the whole situation was set for an Aggie victory, but these
_ little kids just got out there and fought the daylights out of theme The
Aggies average 23 years and 6 months and our average is 21 years and 6 monthse
Théy had it on us in poundage, height, home floor, and every logical advantage,
and yet unless we played a red hot game we could not possibly have won, It
was just an exveptione

. Dan, if anything else occurs to me in the next few days I will
ssf down and jot outa yarn for you, if I am versatile enough to think of

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