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Mr. He Ge Olsen,
Basketball Coach,

Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohioe

Dear Ole:

Your good letter of the 14th instant has just
been received, and I find myself in hearty accord with all that
you and President Owens desire.

Floyd Rowe has asked me to be in Cleveland on
the 27th and 28th of November at a rules interpretation meeting
for his district. I am wondering if you could comaunicate with
Floyd end find when we would be free and see if there is any
chance for you end for me to get together at this time when I
em in such close proximity to youe A personal conversation is
worth loads of correspondences

I want you to know that I am intensely interested
in making this N.C.A.A. tournement a great success and anything
that I can do to make this emphatically a stand-out N.C.A.A. proe
ject will receive my tireless sunporte

AnswePing the next to the last paragraph in your
letter, I have talked to Major Griffith and Saint a great number
of times and I, too, believe that the "director" or "faculty"
type of individual is the man to have on such committee. At least
that type should dominate the committee, and we might have a few
of the active coaches so that there would be no great critician
from the coach's angles

Yes, I do feel that we can successfully operate
this season without using newspaper men on our active committees
I had a rather delicate situation confronting mee Liston, who is
operating this National Intercollegiate Committee, had the active
support of MéBride, and he still has it, but I think we are break»
ing the ice very successfully.

If you could get over to Cleveland at any time
that you and Floyd Rowe could agree on so that we might have a
conference, I am sure we could iron out a lot of these situations.