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April 15,1940
Dr.F.C.Allen,
Kansas University,
Lawrence ,Kansas
Dear Fog:

No doubt, you may be surprised to hear from me since I have
not been in the coaching game since I left Ottawa. However, I had a talk
with Schabinger a few days ago and he mentioned the work you coaches were
doing on a redesigned backboard.

Since getting out of the coaching business, I have been in the
plastics game with the Bakelite Corporation and I believe we can fit some
of our materials to this new shaped backboard. I would like to ask a few

questions.

1 — ould you be interested in a water white board, one not quite
as clear as glass but resembling glass to guite an extent?

« - If not interested in the above, what color would be desirable.
I am figuring that it would be white, although with the present range of
plastics we could probably give you a tinted surface anywhere from white to
yellow.

If you can give me the latest dope on this, I would like to see
if we cannot get some sample backboards made up so thet you could probably
get them tried out this summer at some of the coaching schools. The
new shape would certainly lend itself to plastics better than it did to
wood.

Yours very truly,

at

R.E. Brannan
REB*MG Sales Engr.