Mre Asa Se Bushnell, Director
Collegiate Basketball Officials Bureau
Baltimore Hotel

New York City

Dear Bre Bushnell,

: Sometime back in the fall I received a short note from Dudley
DeGroct, Associate Professor of Physical Education, University of Rochester,
Rochester, New York, asking that I write you concerning his qumlifications
as an official.

Each day, week and month I put it off until 1 finally felt ashamed
of myself, Of course, I used the urge of administrative work and coaching as
an excuse, but that really was no excusee When an individwl has an opportunity
to recommend as personable an individual as Dudley DeGroot, certainly coaches
Should not procrastinate as the game has too few men officiating as does DeGroote

Two years &go I went as one of the National Collegiate Athletic Ase
sociation Committeemen to Treasure Island, San Francisco, and aided John Bum
in managing the Western NeCeAeds Basketball Championships John Bunn had ase
sembled there the finest group of officials that I have seen works Bunn wag
supervisor of the officials and his selection of them was only superior to
his work of supsrvisione I told Buan and the officials in San Francisco at
that time thet I believed they interpreted and executed the jcb of basketball
officiating better in that tournament than in any tourmament I had ever witnessed
in the United States. Dudley DeGroot ms the outstanding officiel of that groupe

last year when I conducted the Western and the Final Championships
for the N.CeAste in the Mumicipal Auditorium in Kansas City, one of the first
men that I selested to work in the Western Championship was Dudley DeGroote
We brought him here from Rochester, New York {he had left San Jose State Teachers
Coliege and gone te Rochester) to represent the eighth district, because he
the outstanding official in that seetion at the time I mew him. Of course,
lled John Bum, who was the eighth district representative, and it was
Bunn who nominated DeGroot, but even though he was out of the district
glad to bring him from Rochester because he was well worthy.

iri!

The plan that I employed wes es follows: When the fifth district
d the sixth district met we used officials from the seventh and oi ghth
ets, and it worked perfectly. We never used an official to officiate
his team in his om district. . ar

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