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DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS

March 20. 1940

Dy, Forrect C. Allen,
University of Kansas

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Lawrence, Kansas.
Dear Doctor Allen:

I was glad to get your letter and am
enclosing my photograph as you suggested. I will be at
the “ational Convention and I am happy that the meeting
will be held ei Kansas City along with the Yational Tourna-
ment. It seems to me that Kansas City is the logical place
to hold such a Tournament.

I would like to make this suggestion in
regard to future Tournaments. As you know, we have turned
down invitations to the last two N. C. A. A. Tournaments. It
is not due to the fact that we do not care to participate, but
it is due to the fact that the invitations arrive after we
have disbanded our team. That to some Universities is not a
serious problem but to us here in the South it is. I had three
football men on my squad. Spring football starts here on
February lst. Naturally the football coach wants his men as
early as he can get them. Spring football will be over here
at Kentucky on April 6th. That would give the football men
but one week of organized play with the group. Now my suggestion

is this. Why not feel out some of the schools that the N.C.A.A.