DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
J. M. SANDS, VICE PRESIDENT

K. E. BEALL

R. A. HENDRICKS
Cc. E. TURNER
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January 20, 1944

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

Dear Doctor Allen:

Tom Cordell was in to see me yesterday about his going to
college. He has in mind to take the Navy V12 or Navy V 5
program and save his college athletic competition until
after the war. However, I was not familiar with the setup

to give him any advice. He told me that Dale Arbuckle and
several others from their staff had approached him about
going to school at Oklahoma but that he was not particularly
impressed by these men. I believe that at this time he would
prefer to go to Kansas because he certainly thought very much
of you and seemed to like the school in general.

Tom said that he knew you didnot go after basketball players

but he hoped you would give him some inkling as to whether or
not you wanted him up there. You are familiar in handling
matters of this nature but I would like to suggest that if you
are interested in this boy, you might send him a bulletin in
regard to the Engineering Courses at the University, also some
advice as to whether or not he is wise in saving his athletic
competition. I am almost positive that with a little encouragment
this boy would become a Jayhawker.

Our Phillips 66 Basketball Team is in high gear, now having won
twelve games without a defeat. Bud Browning is our coach and has
us playing a faster type game than other Phillips teams..It is

a style of play that I prefer and one like we used on the Ever
Victorious Jayhawk Team of 1935-36 in which we really "rock 'em
and sock 'em. It is a pleasure to play ball again and not be
held down by the slow "pass, pass, but never shoot system" of
Charley Hyatt, and I am having my best year since leaving school.
I am not planning on being a basketball tramp but am filling in
this year and using this basketball as an advantage to better
myself with the company.