I am sending you copy of the letter that I have received
from Vel Lentz, end my reply to hime i do not believe thet he has

definite in mind for his research committee, and it is so. .
late now that mless he has something assigned it would be impossible
to get anything worth while. I am sending you a copy of the letter
I wrote him so that you can see wnat we have definitely planned for
our research in this sections Are you doing any ana research
on any specific thing in basketball?

By the way, I read the article in Stine and several of |
your Lawrence friends commented | it, emnong then Professor We We
levis, Mre Endacott, and sone of the ‘basketball fanse

_ John, there is enother matter that I want to ask your |
opinion aboute Do you think these cross-coumtry trips have anything —
to do with taking the edge off the interest of the boys in their
conference play? I see that the teams that generally make those
trips generally lose their early conference gamese Minnesota,
Nebrasia, end in your case, = end I am wondering if you think the
trip beck Inst had enytiins to do with losing to UeS.C. and to Cale

I have always had e notion that too much treveling in the
pre-conference schedule takes something out of the boys, either fron
their staying at hone and working on their fundamentals, or fram

t threw the ball game aways —