RADIO PROGRAM
February 10, 1938

PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR HEALTH SERIES

"The Athlete Goes to College."

STATION ANNOUNCEMENT

MUSIC:

Up and down --Alma Mater.

ANNOUNCER: Tonight we present the University of Kanses basketball team in "The

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Athlete Goes to College”, a dramatization written especially for the
Jayhawk cagers by Rolla Nuckles....Naturally, the field of athletics
includes many competitive sports. It would be impossible to do justice
to each of them in the time allotted us. So for our purpose tonight,
we take the basketball player, in a true dramatization. Unliko most
plays and motion pictures, we say that all the characters in our play
are drawn from life, and that these characters will be played by.ee.
thomselves... The first scone is laid in the office of the director of
physical education of any high school. Nelson Sullivan is a senior -
graduation is drawing near, and, like most seniors, Sullivan is trying
to decide where to go to college, and wo hear him speaking to his coach
as the scene opens:

Sure, I'm going to ge to college aftor I graduate.
Have you decided where you want to g0?

Yeah, I think so.

Where?

Well, you seo, I've just finished reading a book by "Phog" Allen, and
I'd like to work with him. He sounds like he knows his stuff.

He does, Nelson.
You used to be on his team, didn't you?

That's right. And I think that you're the sort of material that "Phog"
wants « ;

Goce, I hopo so. I went up to a game a couple of months agoe Boy, did
they play basketball. I'd give anything if I could play like Fred Pralic.
Wonder what he's like?

I've never met him. Ho'll bo playing next year, though, when you go up.
You can sce for yourself.

Yeah. Say, coach, I wish you'd talk to Joe. He's not going to K.U. with
MC e

Why?