T/Sgt. F. He Bell
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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.

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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