A

INTERCOLLEGIATE BASKETBALL

E.S. LISTON, Achletic Director; Baker University; Baldwin, Kansas

Vinkiawul  Miaielian of

ey

Acting Executive Secretary,

Managing Director,
NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT

January 13, 1940

 

Mr, Edward J. Hickox
Springfield College
Springfield, Massachusetts

Dear Mr. Hickox:

A copy of your letter under date of December 12 addressed to men-
bers of the National Association of Basketball Coaches of the United
States has reached me. This, in spite of the fact that I was not ex-
tended the courtesy of having it mailed direct, though my name appears
on the membership roll of the Association.

I think, Mr, Hickox, you are too seriously concerned about the
National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball being a "devisive"
organization or “one that might well weaken the power and influence of
the Basketball Coaches in the United States."

First let us get some things straight. The name “Intercollegiate
Basketball" is the official, legally registered trade-marked name given
to the official publication of the National Association of Intercolle-
giate Basketball, a legally organized, unincorporated body.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball membership
is institutional, not individual,

The National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball is not a
"devisive" organization.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball has not,
through its membership or through representatives of its membership,
sought to discourage or to alienate members of the National Associa-
tion of Basketball Coaches or any other orgenization or individual
members of such organization.

It is inconsequential, but for your information, the code for mem~
bership in the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball was
set up March 15, 1939; while the code for membership to which you refer
in the National Association of Basketball Coaches was revamped in a
Special executive session, hurriedly called after some disturbances
occurred in the afternoon meeting of the National Association of Bas-
ketball Coaches, more than two weeks later, at Chicago.