UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION April ii, 19396

Dre Forrest Ce. Allen,
Director of Physical Education,
University of Kansase

Dear Dre Allen:

The interest shown in the paper I read at the Research
Section at Sioux City concerning the recreational method of
teaching and the application of this method to other games and
sports, particularly basketball, leads me to feel that we, here
in this department, oan profitably go forward along these lines.
Another interesting thing about this convention was the evidence
of a definite trend toward the application of psychological prin-
ciples and theories to the field of physical education and the
emphasis upon recreations

I am thinking about the suggestion you made to me recently
concerning the course in the psychology of teaching and coaching
games and sports, using basketball as a laboratory illustration.
This might be an excellent way of introducing and explaining our
method, since we seem to be leaders in the use of this method,
thus giving our students and majors and graduates a definite ad-~
vantagee

This course could be handled along the following lines.
We could arrange our plan of action so that the theories and
principles which we went to teach could show a definite sequential
pattern in classroom lectures, and at the same time have meetings
on the basketball floor which you would use for the practical
demonstrations and application of these psychological principles
and theories. Thus we would have a laboratory course in teaching
methods and also a very fine way of developing the coaches in
basketball. We could also use the course to demonstrate how these
principles might be applied to the various other sports.

I should also like to suggest that I feel qualified to
handle some of the theory courses in this department. I have been
enrolled in graduate work since the completion of my Me Ae degree,
with the doctor's degree as my goale

It might be a little early at this time to talk about the
1940 summer school, but I would like to suggest that I would be
available for teaching in the summer session. In looking over