\s June 6, 1945. Mr, Leroy "Bud" Parmelee, Lambertville, Michigan. Pear "Bud": I see that I have waited nearly e month te acknowledge receipt of your fine letter and also to —w the film, Killing the Killer. Mighty nice of you to let me have it. I really will not need it wmtil next fall or early winter, but I an going to take it over to the’ Visual Sducation henrien’ and see it run through. I am sure it will serve my purpose because the relaxation of that mongoose is something te behold. Again, thenk you so much. And if at any time you ever want it baok,: Iwill be happy to send it to you. It was a great pleasure to be with you last summer and I only wish that we might meet again this summer, although T am not too certain about that. I am going to be in the Summer Session here at the Univer- sity, teaching - ani our Summer Session 1s much later this year than aah I'll bet you and Mrs, Paomelee hed & great Vine with Ray Hides before the Michigan game. He is a rare guy. Yes, I remember Lynn King wary welle He was a star on the Drake | Bulldogs. I would have enjoyed sitting in with you two august gentle- men and spinning a few yarns. Again thanking you, and assuring you that it was a great pleasure to make your acquaintance, and wishing you everything good in this life, I eam Sincerely yours, | Direotor of Physical Bducation, — vs FCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach. I am sending you one of our Jayhawk Rebounds that we have just gotten out. I snatched the Oklahom story from my Tales of ‘ester- years in the back of my book, but I thought you might enjoy seanning over the pages. It is quite a chore to get these out each month. FCA. STATE Mutua Lire ASSURANCE COMPANY OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS I 44 a ee ee er, er re ee PERE ERA LS ACRRUT ore aaah ce oe eee RN ec ee eee NC Cae nS ia lnc ero ean OTe cee sc oe se ee At es 1222-23 EDISON BUILDING —FOreps;-GHioO— < MAIN 2028 : Bracks ae —_————— Se a 2 Uy, “P7) “7 i ee o 45 eee aaa tee I ° op pe ee ak . =e ee HIE ame OVER NINETY YEARS A SYNONYM FOR SECURITY STATE Mutua Lir—E ASSURANCE COMPANY OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS INCORPORATED 1844 REPRESENTATIVE "GENERAL AGENT 1222-23 EDISON BUILDING TOLEDO, OHIO OVER NINETY YEARS A SYNONYM FOR SECURITY _ dune 9, 1945. Mr. Neal Prochaska, RoP.Ds zZ, Topeka, Kansas. Dear Neal: 3 Mr. Quigley referred your letter of June 1 to my. desk. I am awfully glad that you are still considering the University of Kansas. I am going to Chicago Sunday to attend the con~ vention of Rotary International. I will not return wmtil Priday. When you plen to come, let me know ahead of time so that Iwill be in town. I want to show you ow’ campus and tell you some things about ow University that, in our short time I did not have an opportunity to elaborate. Anticipating the pleasure of seeing you in the near future, I am : y Sincerely yours, / Director of Physisal Education, PFOA :AH Varsity Basketball Coach. May 10, 1945. Mr. Jacob Podoloff, The Podoloff Insurance Agency, Ino., Arena Building, 3 20 Grove Street, * Dea r Mre Podoloff: , I acknowledge recel pt of your pee and was interested in reading your comment. ; | i have not been one of those individuals who are against the ten second rule. Many coaches stalled in the back court and then used the pick off in the back court, then raced for the other end of the court, for their om basket. I have always thought of this as basketball in the reverse. The strategy in this game, of course, came about to see who would score first and then they would go into a stall game if they were ahead, making the team behind come and get the ball, then use their pisk- off. I Lint eabiobsiahinil oi Ak OES geal Wiekuhe er tthe: rit is on for 7 £t. players and they place him under the basket where he camps. I agree with you that if they would sone him off, that would take eare of the situation. But why have all those zoning rules and three-second rules when all you would have to do is raise the basket? aie. It is an interesting thing how unprogressive many people are. They will never try anything which requires a very simple experiment like raising the basket to try it out. Of course, they want the drive-in and lay-up. Bighty-two per cent of all the fouls are made within an are of 15 feet of the basket. For that reason it seems to me appropriate to raise the basket. Sure, it would eliminate some of the drive-ins and - lay-ups, but it would immediately upen up the area where the congestion is. Rebounds would come out higher and the short shots would fall down under the basket, permitting a smaller, faster man to capture the wall. A player accommodates the moles of his eyes to height the same as he does to distance. You will understand that I am not advocating a.12 £t. basket for high school players. They are immature and do not have the height and stamina that independent and college teams have. ‘The only teams that were in the championship hunt last year were teams that o2- possessed a man who was 6 ft. 6 in. or taller. Henry Iba has a man for next year who is 7 ft. 3 in., so he says. It will only be a few years until they will be forced to raise the basket out of the reach of players, not out of shooting reach, but the dunking reach. I enjoyed reading your coments and I am happy that you like the indoor gam well enough to express your opinion for its betterment. ‘Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Bducation, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1945 _ e w © a. = az © Se > (hal =z The Sports Parade | By Leonard Cohen Another one of those really big boys of basketball will appear on the Garden floor tonight when John Ludka, Syra- cuse’s 6 ft.-1014 in. center, opposes City College. He’s only a freshman and may still be growing, for all we know. But his presence this evening makes timely a couple of letters we received about our comments here last Wednesday re- garding the problem of tall men in basketball. The suggestions they contain possess some merit, as did Israel Ornstein’s idea, discussed then, of eliminating the backboards so that the giants of the court would be unable to use their terrific height advantage in the scramble for rebounds. Jacob Podoloff of New Haven agrees.with us that you can’t legislate against any group of players because of their height. “I think you can get to the heart of the matter if you see why it is that tall men have taken possession of the game,” he writes. Mania for Speed and Scoring Draws Blame “The demand for speed and the mania for continuous scoring has caused a change in the rules which is responsible, in my opin- ion, for the importance of the big man. The particular change in the rules is the one requiring that the ball be advanced to the middle of the floor within ten seconds or the side carrying the ball loses possession. Back court play, opening up the play, is a thing of the past because of the rule. Furthermore, when a team had the entire court on which to operate, the small, agile man had a chance against the biggest man, but when the game is compressed within ten seconds to one-half the area, the big man, under a system of zone defense, becomes: important. 4 “Without. that ten-seconds rule, zone defense wasn’t worth a tinker’s dam. Eliminate the importance of zone defense and you eliminate the reason for the big man. There will always be men of Size who can fit into any team, but with the whole floor open to play, the big man cannot afford to be so near the basket all the time and the little five-footers can make a monkey out of the aver- age big man. Ganging up under the basket will be partially elimi- nated. Then you will see a return of fancy-passing and dribbling and the ‘eels’ that used to be the marvel of basketball will return. I would like to see one game played without that ten-second rule again. ee 9 sta “I admit they have improved shooting and have speedea up tne game (although to what purpose I do not know),” Podoloff’s letter concluded. : Nat Holman, coach of the City College team and as keen a student of the game as you'll find anywhere, has this comment in the City College Campus. “The professionals have a rule which takes care of the big man more than adequately. If you define a certain zone and enforce a three-second count on any man in that zone with his back to the basket, you would get rid of these robber ‘barons of the backboard. The zone would be the width of the foul line and include everything from the foul line to the basket. Holman Proposal. Successful With Pros “While in this zone the player would have three seconds to take a pass or shoot, or else get out. If he didn’t his team would lose possession. This rule has worked rather well in pro basket- ball. If we could get some conference or group of schools to adopt it experimentally for one season, we could really tell how it would | work.” There you have two more different suggestions on dealing - with the seven-foot (or close to it) rebound-snatcher. The first one would undoubtedly result in less scoring, but would lessen the value of the stationary big man under the basket. The second would keep the play confined to one-half the court area, as under the present ten-second rule, would still permit clogging up the de- fended team’s area, but would keep the big man moving after three seconds in the bucket. * * * Taking its cue from the National Football League, the Amer- ican Soccer League is also said to be considering some move to end the plethora of tie games and may adopt an overtime rule | at its meeting at the Hotel Imperial Saturday night. Fifteen of the 57 games played thus far this season have ended in stalemates. ; * * * ‘Maj.-Gen. Robert B. Williams, commanding officer of the Sec- ond Air Force at Colorado Springs, Col., writes in to state that the Superbombers’ football team, playing primarily for the entertain- ment of fellow service men, performed before approximately 175,000 people, including 125,000 service personnel this past fall. As part of the Army Air Forces’ physical fitness program, the Superbomb- ers’ season was a highly successful project ... The army of Sonja Henie fans is advised to wait no longer; tickets for her show start- ing at the Garden Jan. 17 are going as fast as they ever did in previous years, : THE PODOLOFF INSURANCE AGENCY, INC., AGENTS ARENA BUILDING 20 GROVE STREET NEW HAVEN 11, CONN. PHONE: 8-0177 april 30, 1945 Mr. Forest CG. Phog Allen, PED University of Kansas Kansas Dear Sir: I noticed some comment of yours in the New York papers with respect to the rules of present day basketball, and for one thing I am entirely in accord with you when you say we are in the midst of "hysteria of poor basketball" due to top speed style of play which the spectators seem to be reguiring, I am enclosing comments of my own which I sent to the sports eGitor of the New York Post and would appreciate your reaction, I used to enjoy playing basketball as a sport, and I also enjoyed watching it. However, at the present time I can't. see that the game amounts to much other than a mad rush up and down the floor with strength and stamina counting most and skill and strategy counting least, although I must admit that the shooting has improved. Years ago,there was a clamor for bigger basketball courts, but with on®,swoop the ten second rule cut the court in helf. Of course, the basic trouble in all of these things igs the fact that we are playing to cater to the paying fans and, of course, they do have their rights. But maybe the paying fans should see one kind of game and the teurs should play the sport as a sport, : JP/ek . sani F738 S2es.g ENTE Psy. : : ‘jis’ ‘ ia ee he Hh Hin Haat uh ill ee wun ae ee sil wes 8 Sei ie ak he ly ea After you have finished with the book, will you kindly mail bie pals te iis pga wg bt ibaa een ee Se Wh ie i a} mi fue Ty Gin iif ii Po odngil 2 brady nig aT iad ap pa, ib i et dieh tau dal ine ie 7! at aE ye ae ae “il i ml dha fd a Handled al ze I am still counting on having that visit, which will materialize in the not too distant future, I am sure. Congratulate Don, Jr., on his baseball ability. I am writing him a short note. | With all good wishes to you and yours, I am Sincerely, Your Friend, , Direstor of Physieal Bdueation, FOA:AH 3 Varsity Basketball Coach. DON CARLOS PEETE, M.D, SUITE 1500 PROFESSIONAL BUILDING KANSAS CITY 6, MISSOURI April 24, 1945. Dy. FF. Cs Alien, Department of Physical Education, University of. Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Friend Forrest: — I have been intending to write you a note for some time on your recent electrocardiogram but it always seems tomorrow would be a good time to get to it, you know me and writing letters. I did want you to know comparison of your tracing with the one we made four years ago shows definite in- crease cardiac tone. You may want to know what ‘ that means - well, I think that you are in better physical condition today than you were four years ago which also means that you have to give up the idea of resigning, or retiring I should say, in the near future. It was awfully good to have that short visit with you when you were down and I hope that you will soon be able to come down and we will have one of those good old time sessions of reminiscing. I see Bobby and Jean quite often and they are both busy as firemen going to a four bell alarm. EF also want to take this opportunity to tell you how much that Alice and I have enjoyed the Rebound. It is just like sitting in on a bull fest with many of our old friends and many of those that we know well from their past careers. Hoping that your family is all well and we will have the pleasure of seeing you soon, I remain Sincerel your friend a i ee ee DCP 3EG. ee Q aur aru x F ri : gent. ‘Sae- fette ediup a ‘baa aden eon fs iled: ar 2 ee oe ee ee teudioqao eidt estat as daw o8ie 1 syotme eved I bra cotta tad? doum won. vor ‘#6 th gatétte edli gaut et 41 .bavodel | to Yoan btm ebdett? blo wo Tto yoam do iw ie -SteeTas _— eceae mot? Llew worl ow ea tee Lie. a2 <2 tent hey. sand grtqol — fot 1 ,foor —— ‘to islam a, eit: ovad << * pnatat airoy ,3f6ieon 2 — January 22, 1945. Mr. Re E. Peters, Commissioner, Big Six Conference, 342 Soe Chelsea, Kansas City, Mo. Dear Reaves: 779 A ball is put in play within three feet of where the ball goes out of bounds. What I want you to: do, please, Reaves;-is to take it up with that high school official and tell him he is handling college men, and not a bunch of kids. You know I have coached long enough that IT an not splitting hairs and I never try to take advantage of anybody, but confound it, when some fellow tells a kid of mine that he is interfering with our normal play. | If we are going ‘to use Van Reen again I want to know that he is going to handle the game like the other officials, else I won't want to use him. He did a good job. We lost the year before down there, and we used him again this year. However, it is such silly little things as this that interfere with good administration, and I think you are ina fine position to iron those things out. That is why I wrote you. It takes time and trouble to do it, so you know that mm and I don't have to go into a Longs dissertation on that. . I hope you ean get’ down to ss0 Louie's team and my team tangle. It should be a ball game. TI am not selling Louie Mgntly * on account of the poor showing he made at Columbia. I am glad to know that Dick is getting along well in improving his play. He is just a youngster and has a lot to learn, and I kmow you are handling him in fine style. His mother and Dick are fortimate in having a fellow like you with the patience and understanding to work with the ss boll 3 ‘Yes, ‘I had known your boy was in Italy. I remember you told me. Gosh, Reaves, I want you to know that I am just as anxious about him as I can be. I know what a tug it is on the heartstrings of you parents. Please assure Mrs. Peters that I will be thinking of him often, and pulling for the very best for him and for you good people. In our busy lives we sometimes fail to express our immer feelings for each other. In your business as commissioner I try to keep at the safe distance that a coach and a commissioner should stay, but I have never forgotten the days back at Warrensburg where we really battled them = Le elk halon Salar Son. © wea: aes eee oe as vividly as if they were but yesterday. So just. know that Zam pulling for thet bey of youre . in every punakhia wy scene deuce ut: aacaloswiita asa ak og tee 3 ite tated earlier this morning, but I think I will do it now. I wrote Bruce Drake a letter this morning so that a year from now we wouldn't have the same thing happen to us again down there. I guess Oklahoma will always be that way, because it's Oklahoma. They are fine fellows, but it is the worst hit-and-miss set-up that I have ever seen. Just think, ss cia ocak Mh all ioe, ansawae jet us in that dressing room, and the janitor was home and didn't have a car. And if it had not been for a fellow that was keeping the outdw door where the athletes come in for Bruce, who loaned his car, then the Lord knows when the fellow would-have come to let us in. He got him, and when he opened our door, after the boys had lain on these benches in their ow way trying to sleep or ect as if they were - but actually they were as nervous fe a ee janitor came with the key, I said, "Gentlemen, the president of the University af Oklahoma's” That peruse apace. - Sincerely yours, , Di rector of Physical iduoation, | : PCA :AH ; Varsity Basketball Coach. University of Nebraska | Lincoln University of Oklahoma Norman University of Missouri Columbia Office of Commissioner of Officals Big Six University of Kansas Lawrence ga Kansas State College Manhattan Intercollegiate Athletic Conteronce 342 So. Chelsea Avenue KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Ames January 18th 1945 Dr. F. Ce. Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, “ansas Dear Doc: : Here is a copy of the basketball conference sch- edule for 1945 with all officials assigned. In the handling of the out-of-bounds situation we have two extremes; the official that is too technical about where the player must stand and the official that allows the player to roam up and down the gide line at will. Accor- ding to the rule the ball must be put in play at the spot where it goes out of bounds. However, common practice and in some places, common agreement allows a spce of several feet from where the ball went out of bounds, and when it is under the basket we allow the player to move to either side of the basket. I do feel that the official should be more care- ful about the spot from where the ball is to be thrown in if it is in the front court. Near the point where the ball goes out of bounds should guide an official in his handling of theis play situation without any trouble. I see no reason why the player should not be allowed to move as far back from the sideline as he desired. Glad to get your report on a well worked game in Columbia. I may get down there for he Iowa State game this Saturday. Right now it looks like Kansas and Iowa State but knowing the other teams as I do I realize that anything can happen between now and the 5th. of March. Your nephew, Dick is improving in his play and may get in there yet. Guess you knew that my boy was in Italy and has been on several missions to date. He is Co-Pilot on a B-24, Liberator. He says the flack is heavy over there. If those Russians keep going as they have been the past few days the flack and everything else over there will ease up. Sincerely yours, Komen R. E. Peters Towa State College cay { September 21, 1944, Mr. Vadal Peterson, Basketball Coach, University of Uteh, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Pete: It was, good of you te write me as you did in your letter of August 31. I assure you the pleasure was reciprocal. I guess I am a peculiar mortal, but I am rather proud of some of the enemies that I have. I certainly did enjoy working with you. We had a fine visit and I think we found each other fairly human, and realize that we are both ordinary mortals who perhaps get the breaks in live above a let of our fellows. I have always said that if life would end now I have gotten far more than is coming to me. Luck plays a tremendous part in an individual's happiness and success. ' T am mailing you an autographed copy of my text, — “Better Basketball”. Perhaps most of this is old stuff to you, but I want you to have one for your desk. I was moh interested in your defensive drill that you lectured upon. Your pivot drill I think I understand, but the rotation of your men when you have six or eight paire opposing © each ether I would like te know more about. Do ydiivhavécanyry available material that would show this, or could you write me a short note giving me a diagram of your method and how you rotated the men? I refer te passing the ball on defense when the men are about sight or ten feet from each other. With kindest regards, I am Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA:AH , Varsity Basketball Coach. Athletic Council - - University of Utah = ——_" OFFICE OF THE MANAGER SALT LAKE CITY August 31, 1944 Dr. Forrest G. Allen Basketball Coach University of Kansas Kansas City, Kansas Dear Phog: I wish to express my appreciation for having had the privilege of associating with you during the coaching school. I feel that I know you better, and possibly some of the reports that circulated have been refuted in my becoming better acquainted with you. It was an enjoyable week, and I am looking forward to future contacts with you. Kindest regards. Sincerely yours, feete. 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