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KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI

February 15th.
1944

Dr. F. Ce. Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Doc:

You are right as can be on the two counts at Iowa State;
namely, the going on the floor and talking to officials by a
coach without permission, or with permission if it is to
question the judgement of an official- it couldn t possiblty
do any good. I talked to Louis Menze about this and he readily
agreed that he was definitely in the wrong and should not have
done it. As to visitors in the dressing rooms of the officials,
that too, has been discussed and an agreement reached whereby
all dressing rooms for officials, both in football and basket
ball would be free of vistors. Louie promises that this will
not happen again.

As I told you over the phone I just can't imagine an official
talking to a player in any way that should embarrass the
player. I never heard an official make any remark to a player
that he wouid not make to the coach,in all the years that I
officiated. I just don't see how they could be thinking in
such terms. To most officials there is absolutely nothing
personal in their relationship with the players or coach, and
regardiess of what the player says or does the official simply
administers the necessary penalty agcording to the rules and
immediately fogets all about it. I am not saying that it Gould
not happen, but it just doesn't make sense to me that any
official would.

I am sending you the letter that Bud Knox sent to me after
thet game; please send it bagk after you have read it. I
believe Bud to be a gentleman at all times, and know that you
too feel that way about it, even though you #e at alloss to
understand how this happened.

At ou r basketball clinic here in December we agreed on some
signals that the officials were to give to the Scorer and
Timer; unfortunately we couldn't insist that all officials
come here since so many of them had so few games. This infor-
mation was sent to them with the hope that they would carry
out the idea. For next year we will make this as definite
part of their work as we do the signals given by the football
officials. The signals you sent are very good and for the
most part are the ones that we agreed upon at the clinic. I
believe you will find that some of the officials are giving
then- John Lance should be one of them.

I also agree with you about sending officials about the con-