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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FOOTBALL COMMISSIONERS

Eowin N. ATHERTON PRESIDENT Joun L. GRIFFITH
Pacific Coast Conference Artuur R. HuTcHENS Intercollegiate Conference
® Southern and Southeastern Conferences (Big Ten)
Asa S. BUSHNELL : ®
Eastern Intercollegiate ; Reaves E. PETERS
Football Association Big Six Conference
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-ArtuHur E. EMers James W. St. Crain
Missouri Valley Conference Southwest Conference

October 27, 1941

Dr. F.C.Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Doc:

The officials for your games with Creighton and Denver
will be assigned within the next few days.

Artie Eilers and I assigned the officials for the two
games between the Oklahoma Aggies and Oklahoma for Maeh 6and 12th.
without any difficulty. I don’t believe we would have etountered any
difficulty in assigning the officials for your two games.

We have not been embarrassed in any way in the assigning
of officials for conference and non-conference games in football, and
while there is at the present time differences in procemures in the
various conferences in regard to the assigning of basketball officials,
I believe we should take the lead in establishing some definite plan
for this.

I believe you know that it is our policy not to assign
officials to any game without the consent, thru preferential list or
dirrect contact with the coaches, or thru the commissioners of other
conferences. The officials for the Western play-off of the National
Collegiate was handled in this way. The officials for the various
Bowl games are handled in this way and it has proven so much better
than the old way of coaches bikering over officials-you know that
sometimes happens.

According to instructions given me by the Directors it
will be necessary that I assign all basketball officials that work
on conference floors. The only personal advantage that this gives me
is that I know the officials that are working, where and when they are
working, and when they will be available for other games. Then too, I
believe there is a certain psychological advantage in having the
officials realize that they are being assigned from a central office
and are responsible, to a certain degree, to that central office for
satisfactory work.

During the first year of my work in the conference I
assigned only conference officials but it soon became apparent to |
the coaches that it would be better if I assigned all their officilas. —
They realize, and I know the basketball coaches feel the same way a
about it, that it creates more work for me, but in the long run it is 2