THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

COLUMBUS
DEPARTMENT OF PuysicaL EDUCATION
L. W. Sr. Joun, Director . February 7, 1940

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear *Phog":

Regarding the matter of the N.C.A.A. helping out with the
contribution toward the tournament, instead of having the tournament
committee provide them with free admission, I talked with "Butch™
Grover sometime ago concerning this and, as he has probably told you
by now, he has had the matter under consideration for some time. My
impression was he is heartily in favor of your idea and I have no
doubt but what that procedure will be carried out by the coaches As»
sociation.

Regarding the conduct of such pleyeoffs as we may run = as
you recall, the tournament and olympic committee at the last meeting
presented a rather involved proposition regarding the conduct of the
tournament = presented it merely as a recommendation. I think what
we better do, however, is to scrap this idea for the present and follow
the procedure which you followed in the conduct of the playeoff in your
district last year, that is, splitting the profits from any play-offs
in any of the districts, 20% of the net profit to go to the NoC.AsAe,
the other 80% of the profit to be divided among the teams involved.

I am sure this will meet with the approval of the other members of the
committee.

Further, with respect to the conduct of the tournament, I am
going to propose that we definitely limit expenses to twelve men this
season. Fifteen men is too many for us to handle in our present
financial circumstances.

With respect to your comment concerning the chairmanship of
the various districts, while we did not go all the way with the Faculty
type of men in selection committee chairmanships, still we are ina
better position than we were last year. For example, in District 2,

Ce Ee Bilheimer, who has been active in N.C.A.A. affairs for some time,
is serving as chairman theree The only reason King is not serving in
your district is that you felt you would rather retain that chairmane
ship yourself. I feel we have a good committee as it is set up.

I, too, am sorry to see John Bunn pass out of the picture.
John is a very able man and he will be missed by the N.C.A-A. I have
also written to "Hee" Edmundson indicating that we are hoping he will
jump into the job which is being Yacated by Bumn and help out in every
way he cane