Mr. Edwin Browne, Director of Publicity, University of Kansas. positions that we sometimes fail to recognise the new: in. We had previously sent our Rebounds to Wayne Davidson, and of cow'se Fred Ellsworth, being the Alwmi Secretary, acme fur 58 #0) De com. boa wy wth Nie melding Aint, We started the Rebounds by just writing to the athletes. It first started with basketball, < the ball rebomding from the backboard, and the basketball players in the service rebounding from tough opposition, we hope. That is the significance of the name. Since then the Rebounds mailing list hae bean énlexged 00 many times that now we, Like neta paint, "“sover the earth". oe Yrak Milawerth weggerted we east. te leh ony teyou -_— or extra copies of previous issues. You can see that these numbers are not complete serially, but he thought you interested. We try to write a monthly letter. We will put on our mailing list for the future. Sincerely yours, - Direstor of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. 5 ee Bee Es We 0 Ss Ae eee ph ete the \radecs athletes. fame! 3 eS eat ee 2 Ace thes Lhe pthlets ,. a as 2 os bro athlete, Att? p. fughles” gad ol they Po ei fa ho 7 | fb Legh LeveereG Vige FU LLP [Zot 4b68 [pr Shd ke PO FFI O46. fast Pitpseer SN PRON ELS CO» CHF July 20, 1945 t/Sgt. FP. He Bell - 17064111. : 468 Ftr. Sqdn APO 959 oe o/o Post Master mas San Francisco, California © Dear Sgt. Bell: I do not lmow what I am letting myself in on when I answer your querry of a yecent date. : a First, I think that it is a general conception that athletes as a whole are dumber than a noneathlete. However, it must be onasidered that an athlete spends two oy hours a day on intensive training which many times fatigues him and makes him less comprehensive of intensive study. An athlete in order to be eligible for the varsity teams must be passing in more than the average hours carried by a non-athletee In 1930, I collaborated with a number of other educators on the text by | Ginn & Company = Higher Education in America - My chapter being on 6rgenizeation and Administration of Physical Education and Athletics. My I quote you from phases of my contribution on pages 592 and 593 <= ne . ‘We hear little of the thousands of athletes who have graduated and have taken — their places as worthy citizens, but we hear much about the undesirable &thletes who sift inte the institutions and bring them no credit. Many men graduate from college and become promi- nent in the professions and in business because of their athletic inclinations. Athletics and the urge to play kept them in high school and le@ them to college. Hven though such a primary motive is insufficient, in many instances it helps the boy to the place of larger. vision and truer motives. : 3 : Of other undesirable students who matriculate and fail to live up to college _ gtendards, however, we hear very little. A recent survey was conducted in one of our | MideWestern universities to determine what percentage of the student body was eligible for athletic competition under the present ruling of twenty-seven hours of passing work the preceding semester. The findings were interesting. Out of a total enrollment of 4082 students, 2197 were found to be eligible and 1992 ineligible. But it was the average of the student average standing in the women's classes that brought the average of the student body a little past the 50 per cent mark, Of the men students, 1240 were Bla&pible and 1461 were ineligible; of the women, 957 were eligible and 531 were ineligible Perhaps it is unjust to the athlete to focus so much attention upon the undesirable re- flection that he brings upon his school when his class grades render him ineligible for intercollegiate competition. a : In spite of a mass of such statistics which might be compiled there are those who see no remedy for the evils of the system except the abolition of intercollegiate athletics and the establishment of an extensive system of intramurals which will engage the entire student body in a program of play in their stead. The organization of the American college is such that a spirit of rivalry in intramurals could not be sufficidntly aroused to take the place of intercollegiate competition. In spite of the fact that , nature has endowed us with wonderful powers of substitution, we should have difficulty . { : . . . T/Sgt. F. He Bell Page + 2 + din finding something else to take the place of our great team games as they are now enshrined in our competitive civilization. Intramurals will always be more or less "fooling play." Competitive athletics will always be serious play. Even if intra- murals could supply, in the physical education program, the need for recreation, and at the same time build up the physical body so that it can successfully meet life's demands, with the revenue from athletics taken uway there would be small chance for an appreciable system of intramurals to exist. The sole source of revenue for athletic and play purposes in many of our colleges is from the gate receipts of foote ball games. Especially is this condition true in the colleges of the South. It seems unjust to say that commercialism is abroad in college life when the extermination of one sport would mean the curtailrient of the possibilities of play. When it isa matter of making sports pay for sports, the plan is not comiercialism. £ This survey was made at the University of Kansas. You can see that the wonen students brought up the average. That is because they did not have that two hours of intensive, fatiguing, fundamental exercise. ue Coaches today do not want the duller or the slow thinking athlete, so at the present time I believe that the best athletes are the brighter ones, but we still have the thick headed boy who does not want to work hard and wants to coast through college.” Prank individual. : _ Since you have written me, I want to enclose g copy of the monthly letter that I write to boys who have been in athletics here and who are in the service now. Icall this the Jayhawk Rebounds. Your Rebound from the backboard and then still another idea in naming the communication was the thought that we would rebound fron the Japanazis. I started sending this letter to boys who played on my teams but now I send ti to all the boys who desire it beaause the non-athlete fights the war just as heroically and brilliantly as the athlete. | _ If I have not made this clear, please feel free to write me again. At any rate I hope you will enjoy the athletic yarn. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education Varsity Basketball Coach EARLE G. BROWN, M. D. BOARD OF HEALTH COMMISSIONER BENJAMIN R. ALLISON, M. D. CHAIRMAN (aac a MRS. GENESTA M. STRONG — See DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH oo ae ge Se ee NASSAU COUNTY COURT HOUSE CHARLES M. NELSON MINEOLA. N. Y. JOHN W. DODD, PH. D. February 13, 1945. Dr. Forrest C. Allen, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Doctor Allen: Naturally, I was very much interested in the recent news concerning the five members of the Brooklyn College basketball team. I also recall that at various times in the past two or three years, some of the New York sports writers have taken occasion to "snipe" at you on some of your statements concerning gambling on basketball games. Therefore, I was astounded to see in both THE WORLD TELEGRAM, but especially in THE MIRROR, articles which, in effect, commended youe In case you have not seen these, they are enclosed: Josephine finished her course at Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing on December 20, wrote her State Board examinations the last week in January and returned to Presbyterian on the end: of February, where she is on duty in Sloane Maternity Hospital. The day she finished she made application for the Army Nurse Corps and expects to be called to duty about Mey first. Richard received his second wound on the 17th of December, this one a shell wound on the left forearm. Apparently there was some involvement of the ulnar nerve as he has been receiving heat treatment and special exercises for the left hand. A letter received this morning, dated February lst, said that there had been an operation on the 29th of January and some particles of clothing were removed and that the Major had told him he would be in the hospital for another ten days. If theMajor's prediction was correct, that would make him 55 days in the hospital this stay and 13 days on his first trip. Apparently he received this wound in fighting in or near Sarreguemines. A telegram from the Adjutant General seid that the wound was received in action in Germany. I have followed the newspaper reports of this year's Big Six Basketball race with the hope that Kansas would again be on top. Other than scores, most of my information comes from one of the Topeka papers and so I am considerably behind on up-to-date news. , xt THE WORLD ‘TELEGRAM carried the score in favor of “most B aee . game+ Ens, V.S. Bye wn, VSWR Uss Card, o FP 0. Nes York M7 B/ Ly _ | March 29, 1945 Dear Dre Allen; Here on an extremely quiet watch, there is nothing to do but think~sometimes I don't want to think. Aside from those from Mother, your *ebounds are the best letters I receive. Hach line recalls a steady procession of events-today is always forgethen, the misty tomorrow something awaited for, but the yesterdays at school seem like the only real thing that has happened to us. t'm quite sure that you new knew me at school. While T. Pe, Scoot Somers, and Fred Eberhart were making names on the Hill, I was skinning by in classes and trying to pueh my nose into nearly every activity the Hill had to offer. You were the man that consistently beat Nebraska-although Dad was a K.U. man, '09 or '10, my brother went to Nebraska on through medical school and Ed Weir, my cousin, both constantly dinned into me the invincibility of \ebraska on the football. Field. Although it hag come to me in black and white to read again and again, it still doesn't seem possible that T-P., Scoot, and Fred are gone. In the spring of '42, with high hopes, I organized the first Flying Jayhawk Squadron, the largest in the country at that time, and washed out at Corpus Christi with ten hops to go before graduation. Guess I didn't have enough on the ball. Why should it be fellows like that die when there are plenty of the rest of us- It certainly makes our job clear that our work isn't finished after the war but goes on in reconstruction of the old world into a new one that these boys wanted and died for. I'm sure they are still living and will live forever for at least some of us to see when we step across the line and sit with the Peers of Tine. You would have engoyed being aboard the return leg otf our last cruise» With a fairly calm sea most of the way, the hanger deck looked like Stillman's Gym with volley ball, badminton, and basketball tournaments in progress even with individuals punching the bag and playing catch-everything but somebody skipping rope. We, in the Air Department, won the officer's championship and in a double overtime thriller at that against the Supply, Gunnery, and Engineering department teams My contribution was that Kansas twist for five points. Called on Henry Werner's brother for a very pleasant, and charming seems to fit in, timee Sort of have the bug to go there after the war as a vacation on a bicycle tour of the country. Doc we all know how extremely busy you are and what a great job you are doing. Even with all this you still can put out the Rebound. ‘Humbly, thank you. Could you add Lie Emmett Park, USNR, USS Stockdale _DE. 399, Bleet PostOffice, Nsv¥s.to the list? It would be possible for me to send you some gum, but after seeing the boys sweat out the line for it here my conscience won't let me. Can you_tell me where Clint Kanaga is located? I certainly hope he is safe and stays that way-after so long in the Marine Corps you begin to push your luck. Sincerely, CLAIR F. BEE CLAIR F. SEE Mr. John W. Bumn, Deen of Men, Stanford University, California. ; Dear Johmnie: I have intentionally held your letter of January 24th on my desk so that I could reminisce a little on that 1920 Nebraska game. But I am leaving for Chicago Sunday to attend Rotary International. They have elected me Governor of this District #123, and it is imperative that I attend. So Iam just penning a-few lines to you before leaving.’ When George Nettels and I toast our feet in the fall or winter days our conversation always reverts back to that Nebraska game, and you come in for a large share of the disoussion. I will never forget those last few tense moments. § I am sending you a copy of our Jayhawk Rebounds in which is a yarn about Bill Johnson when he flew back after his father's death in Oklahom City. Knowing Hugh MoDermott and the background on all of this stuff, I thought you would enjoy it. It also gives the dope on our family - where they are and what they are doing. I was going to pem a line or two on the gambling situation. I wired Ned Irish the names of those fellows and it did not dawn on me that Ned never gave that information out. He knew a year before I sprung the story all about the expose, but the newspaper men and Ned held it wder cover. He is a shrewd businessman, and of course it would have cost hima lot of money to have broken the story. But it would have been better for him had -he done it. I am firmly convinced that when scandals like this break they are dangerous. It is not over, by any means, in the east. These boys have been doing this thing for several years, and the wise boys kmow it. My kindest regards to you, Bonnie and Mrs. Huff. Be seeing you some day soon, I hope. ae Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FPCA:AH | Varsity Basketball Coach. STANFORD UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF MEN January <4, 1945 STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA Dr. Forrest C. Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Doe: fhanks so much for the copy of your letter to the members of the Kansas faculty in connection with the effort to clear the indebtedness on the Memorial Stadium. You haven't lost any of your old touch. As familiar as I am with the story of that 19<0 Nebraska game, your recounting of it made the chills run up my spine again and literally brought tears to my eyes. My only regret is, and [ ean Still picture the scene, that we permitted old Sandefur to try for the final goal instead of Lonborg as per your instructions. I don't see how your appeal can help but bring effective results. May I suggest that if it can be done in a strategic manner that somehow or other the egotism of our director will be eliminated from his public utterances. Maybe this goes over with our Kansas constituents but I cannot see why it would. Too much credit is taken unto "I" for raising $113,000. Most people who give like to have a feeling that they are providing a generous help. The institution is bigger than the individual and therefore emphasis should be made in this direction rather than on Wir. Tt ‘ You did a grand job with.your story. It is that kind of an appeal that will bring results. Thanks again. Best wishes to you, Cordially yours, JWB: jmg : OOvraA3—_— STANFORD UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF MEN July 18, 1945 STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA Mr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Doc: Last month you were kind enough to send me a4 copy of "Basketball Rebound" together with a nice personal letter. I am sorry that I have not been able to get around to acknowledging your letter or to reading the Rebounds until yesterday. Needless to say I enjoyed both very much. It was an opportunity to reminisce in my mind all my pleasant experiences and to renew vicariously many of my acquaintances at Lawrence. I see that you haven!t slowed up your pace one iota. Frankly, I don't see how you stand it. That Allen strain must be made of very stern stuff. I have always heard that those southerners are tough hombres, now I am assured of it. George Nettels and I have been corresponding some here of late. I was sorry to read in the last issue of the Graduate Magazine that he had been defeated as president of the Alumni Association. I understand, however, that for the first time in history some rather active campaigning was carried on by his opponent. My usual trek through Lawrence this past year had to be cancelled because our Deans! Meeting was called off. This will be the first time that I have not been able to get to Lawrence at least once during the year. I miss the friendliness of the place and the opportunity to renew old acquaintances. In this connection I am wondering if Mrs. Allen felt that I omitted calling her on my last visit. I did not get to contact herebut I did try to. So will you a tell her that I regretted very much the lack of opportunity or a visit. lhat story of Bill Jomson's was a dandy and measured up with the one about Endicott at Missouri. thanks again for remembering me, Doc, and with best wishes, I am Cordially yours, JWB: jmg July 30, 1945 John W. Bunn Dean of Men — Stanford University, California Dear Johnnie: It was not at all necessary for you to write a lenghty epistle in respect to my short note enclosing the Jayhawk Rebounds. We have put you on the mailing list for the Rebounds but your letter ef the eighteenth sounds as if you did not get No. 17 which would recall the Iowa State Dream Touchdown game. I am sending you one along with this letter and I am again putting you on the list. My secretary's mother took ill and she was called out of — town. I camot check this Jist wntil she gets back because I let her handle that. Doubtless, of course, you have learned long since of Memi Nettels' illness. It certainly was a shock, but although I wrote to Mathilda I have not had word from her recently. But I am sure she is getting along. At least I sincerely hope she is. : Yes, it was a very active bit of campaigning by a group in Kansas City, Missouri. I do not know the reason, only George told me that J. G. Nichols had pledged his vote to Charlie Shaeffer. So when a good Beta like J. C. doesnt vote for George then the campaign must have been thorough and forceful. We have missed your trek through Lawrence this year. The ODT messed up a lot of plans, but it was best, of course, under the conditions. Mrs. Allen understands how busy you are in the short time you are here in Lawrence, so she can understand not seeing you, of course. With best wishes to you and yours, I am ts Sincerely, Forrest C. Allen Director, Physical Education Varsity Basketball Coach STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA Q-3-45— hed bad nt gh No .C7 ae tra Artes ) Tix Finn, te Fore EE ewe pe Did Dawes A yor tee arqeat - pun than, cote Oyfine Tretia wr cath few en caja, Stench od hs bay ont toy Chea Ut Staged Se de tty rm | be natd Bow Md fame et ae | fean gt Stoned <7 Ne ak wah, eA 0 ad a grat Fit ov tin phos ot ke Ae - , dae rat te to. de, eufpe oo ng : ’ § shel: $ one cattery hun curating Trannpatohe. fa Caops ‘3 lag tee Leymann % nitrate du ortiud Yat & ofttrle, Seout gt ik ot ym ey)” | oda wie ho - op - August 7, 1945 » Dean John Bunn Stanford Universi ty Stanford, California Dear John: _ That sequel was interesting indeed. Do you re- member Dr. Red Payne's initial? Your most interesting letter provided some happy reflections and some laughs. Is Dr. Payne practicing medicine in Glendale? The latter part of your letter surprised me. Are _ you going on the Athletic Specialists! junket? You write very interestingly. I don't blame you for wanting to get back in athletic participation. The battling rather satis- fies the virile type, of which you are one. Tell me all about it, your trip and so forth, and Jet me have the dope on Dr. Payne pronto, please. Sincerely, Forrest C. Allen _ Director, Physical Bducation Varsity Basketball Coach /@ ntl Se ee —- ay oe Wee Oe well Usfedey hes platl a oe = : 2K M t 3, & S trom Lt. richard p. brown, A U S O ¢hiors— Joe a otha’ CO fowunt®, : se, af eS joo ea fae