ago UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

| LAWRENCE | ;
DEFARTMRYT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION February 3 1945.

Dr. Forrest C. Allen,
Director of Physical Education,
University of Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:

The question has recently been raised as to whether returning war
veterans should be exempted from “required*® physical training, While we only
have a trickle of veterans on the campus now, we will be flooded with them as
soon as the war is over. Even next fall we may have many more than we have
at present. It seems to me that our department should be making plans for
our post-war set-up on physical education and that the Physical Education De-
partment should furnish the leadership in selling whatever program at K.U.
that we feel to be the most desirable and beneficial in the light of the best
current thought and practices in regard to physical education. It is with the
thought of suggesting a definite outline of the pattern that our service program
should take, following the war, that I am writing you this letter.

Undoubtedly, we will have at least 3,000 men on the campus after the
ware Probably at least 1,600 of these men will be freshmen and sophomores.
Our facilities and staff are too limited to handle the entire 3,000 men, but
we undoubtedly could do an adequate job with the freshmen and sophomore men
provided we have an adequate staff. Therefore, I suggest that we establish
the following principles:

Ie Compulsory physical education for every male student at the
University in the freshman and sophomore classes.

TI. Juniors and seniors would be allowed to take P. EB. courses,
with the consent of the instructor, but there would be no requirement.
However, junior and senior men would be urged to participate in intramurals,
varsity athletics and to play “on their own”.

III. The program for freshmen and sophomores would consist of four
phases;

Ae A basic, general conditioning and orientation course re=
quired of all freshmen men for 2 semesters (except those who
had received basic physical training in the armed services).
These men would be exempt from freshmen P. 4. regardless of
their classification in schoo), Freshman P. E. to consist
of 3 hours per week, l ‘hour per day.

Be At the sophomore level, physical education for men
required 3 hours per week but with choice of activities.
This program would be similar to the one in effect at
Kansas before the war, largely recreational in character.