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Dunkel - Alice, you have me on the ede of my chair, but our time is up. Dr.
Allen, will you let us come *acx some other time 2nd finish our stories?

Dr. Allen-You certeinly my. We shall ali want to hesr mre of your many interest-
ing exreriences.

Dunkel -- It may be . far cry from dance to athletic teams, but I think the situat-
jons are comparable in dramatic moments. You haven't said one thing re-
garding your emotional high lights before eame or helf-time sessions.
What was your greatest? |

Dr. Allen-‘fell, that is another tough one for me to answer. IT have been askec that
39 many times - who were my greatest “layers an’ what was the sreatest
game situation? Shades of Tommy Johnson, Tus Ackerman, Al Peterson, Paul
Enéacott, Charlie Black, Ray Ebling and all the rest march before me.

But if I hed to choose one thrilling experience it would be the time that
Bill Johnson flew back from Oklahoma City immediately after his father's
funeral, to participate in the final ond championship game of the Big Six
here on Mount Oread. We were rlaying Oklahoma. Missouri and Kansas

State were playing at Manhattan. It was necessary for Kansas State to
beat Missouri, and Kansas te bert Oklahoma for Kansas to win an undisputed
title. No one exnected Bill Johnson to lay. Just before the referee's
rhistle to begin the play, this tall, lean boy emerged from nowhere, it
seemed, ani stroce down the eu@itorium floor! Bedlam broke loose? The
roof fairly blew off the aucitoriun. Pandemonium reigned! Men shrieked,
women wept. It was Bill Johnson! How eould he arrive for this game? Four
hundred miles avay awl less then five hundred minutes before this boy had
wired newspaper men that he would not be here. Bill Johnson's mother de-
cided the issue. She tolé him he shoul =. Tt was what his father would
want him to 2@o. ‘Yell, this is the answer. Kans:s State beat Missouri,
ami Kansas won . glorious victory and the Big Six chempionshin. The rest
of theyear Bill Johnsen was the bi zgest man on the Kansas campus. It was
not alone 2n account of his vlayine. Tt was hecause Bill Johnson was the
tyne of man that he wis ene is.