NATIONAL BASKETBALL RULES COMMITTEE March 6, 1945 Mr. Phog Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kanaas Gent lemen: The questionnaires are just beginning to return and there seems to be a rather universal acceptance of the rule changes made by the ‘committee last year. One exception to this universal acceptance seems to be the five personal fouls. There are a number of the returned questionnaires on which the rather emphatic statement is made that the five per- sonal fouls has increased the roughness of the game. While a large majority of returns as indicated above show acceptance of the change still I thought it might be worthwhile to get some statistics on this one point. For that reason will you kindly check back through scores for last year and this year and send in at your very earliest convenience, the following bit of statistical evidence for the use of the rules commit- tee, naturally the number of games and whether or not the games are tournament games would have some bearing on the validity of the returns. What we want is the average number of fouls called per game in the season 1943-44 and the average number of fouls called per game in the season 1944-45. Kindly give information also as to the number of games as well as the average number offouls and indicate whether these games were tournament games or regularly scheduled games. This infor- mation will be of use to the rules committee. Thank you for your cooperation. Very truly yours, Floyd A. Rowe Chairman far-dk ~ Maroh 17, 1945. Dear Sid: ; , cs utente 2% sale yeaa se ak ollnk © to Denver tonight and will see Pred Pralle where he is playing with the Phillipps " x the National Tournanent. Paul Negers is in the dry cleaning busineen here and is. doing well. Ray Noble is in the Army, and Al Wellhausen is tending bar ine joint in Kansas City. 3 I have just talked with Dean J. O. Jones, of the School of Engineering and he telle me he will write you immediately. I trust you get fixed yp, and although 29 might be a little old for basket- ball, I know a lot of players can still negotiate the distance. I, like you, au interested in your degree more than I am in your ath- letics, because your degree will carry you places years after you are through with athleties. 4 With every good wish to you and yours, I axa Sincerely yours, POA: AH JONES & LAUGHLIN SUPPLY COMPANY ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION DIVISION POST OFFICE DRAWER 1620 WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS March 6, 1945 Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Director of Athletics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Dear Coach, Greetings and salutations from an old ball player of yours; you may remember Sid Rice, freshman in '34, played forward with Ray Noble, Rogers, Fred Pralle, and Al Wellhousen. Of course it was eleven years ago but I've followed your great teams, mostly in the newspapers, and as usual you are to be congratulated on so many successful seasons. Coach, I am very much interested in returning to school in order to obtain an engineering degree, petroleum with possibly some Aeronautical study. I have full credit for one year there in preparation for a law course. The past three years I have been working on the construction of 100 octane gasoline planta and I like this field very much. .. With the present speed-up of most college programs I thought possibly I could obtain enough credits in two years, by. attending summep classes to obtain a degree. If you would be kind enough to hand this information to the head of the Engineering School I should greatly appreciate it. Possibly he could look up my record and make a proposed itenery that I couldfollow to accon- plish this objective. I am just 29 coach, maybe not too old to play a little ball for you. Of course I am principally interested in the Degree. Thanks very much for your efforts on my behalf and I hope to hear from you in the near future, Yours Very Sincerely, Dra Wichita Falls, Texas March 17, 1945. Mr. Floyd A. Rowe, 16210 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland 10, Ohio. Dear Floyd: I regret that I was a trifle late in responding to George Edwards’ request for this information, We had difficulty in loeat- ing our record for the year previous, which accounts for the delay. I an enclosing a statenent which gives my reactions on the five foul rule and some of the other angles that have occurred te me in my basketball experience. You will notice in 1943 end 1944 we played 23 games for a total of 294 fouls called, with an average por game of 12.78, and - in 1944 and '45 we played 17 games with an average of 16 fouls per geme. This agrees with my contention that the five foul rule en- acted by the Rules Committee last year was a confession of a bad situation but made without removing the cause of the trouble. Sincerely yours, | Director of Physical Education, FOAsAH Varsity Basketball Ceach. UNIVERSITY G@ wMiIssourI Columbia March 12, 1945 _7 DP « F. C. Allen, Louis Menze, Bruce Drake, A.d.Lewandoski, Fritz Knorr Gentlemen: From the chairman of the Rules Questionnair Committee I have just received the following communication: "The questionnaires are just beginning to return and there Seems to be a rather universal acceptance of the rule changes by the committee last year. eee "One exception to this universal acceptance seems to be the five personal fouls. There are a number of the returned sheets on which the rather emphatic statement is made that the five personal fouls has inereased the roughness of the game. While a large majority of the returns show acceptance of the change still I — ht it might be worthwhile to get some statistics on this one point." ' Mr, Rowe then asks me to send in a report of total fouls called in our games last year and this year. Unless reports are obtained from @ large number of teams the statistics might not give a true picture of the trend. Consequently, I have made out a little blank for you to fill and send to Mr. Rowe. On this blank please include regularily scheduled games. If your team played in any tournaments list the foul record for such games on the back side of the sheet. Please mail your reply as quickly as you can to: Mr. Floyd Rowe, 15210 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland, 10, Ohio. The statistical information he collects should be of great value to the Rules Committee which meets March 26,27. Yours truly George R// Edwards. : SHAWNEE-MISSIO L HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF PHysICcA UCATION AND ATHLETICS MERRIAM, “KANSAS March 1, 1945 Dr. Forest C. Allen Basketball Coach University of Kansas Lawrence, 4ansas “Dear Doc: i'm a little late in writing you, Out my team, Nrs. Reade and I really enjoyed the Missouri-Kansas game. Your team certainly has jimproved.fundamentally since the first time I saw,them dow at the Municipal Auditorium. Peck and Heim seem to be the most improved ball players you have. From a coaching angle, I*thownht Missouri's defense was terrible, Your play off of the lateral screen certainly had kurash out of defensive position all night. Your boys certainly showed a much higher team morale than Missouri. Here at Shawnee-Mission, we are fighting an uphill battle. For the last three weeks we have been plagued with intestinal fluc and injuries. Since my A team is: really .limited in reserves, its loss of a couple of reg- ulars has certainly hurt us. -We hope to get by Leaven- worth tomorrow evening and cinch the league title again. “If Ed Ash would do his daily good turn and defeat Law- rence, we wouldn't have to win from Leavenworth in order einch the titie. : Carl missed the honor roll this six weeks by half a. grade point, But he is doing a good job and I expect ‘he will really get on the beam scholastically when he has a little more time. He is in quite a few school activ- ities, so naturally something has to suffer. I wish you a lot of luck against Iowa State, but I'm sure you will get the job don@, sincerely lirrth, HR/em Pebruary 24, 1945. Mr. Teno Ratner, 236 No. Pershing, | Wichita, Kansas. Dear Teno: I was delighted to have your letter of February 15 and I know how disappointed you were when Nebraska beat us. It was a stunning upset and it dazed the boys, but they came back in ' good shape against the Sooners and against the Kansas Aggies. You tell your good dad and your lovely mother that we would’ like to have the whole Ratner family cheering for us es they - @id-in years gone by when they were closer to Lawrence. When this infernal war lets up we will have you up here reguiarly, I hope. We would like nothing better than to have the whole Ratuer family on the front row. And too, when this fuss is over we are hoping to have your brother back from the Atlantic. I certainly will give Mrs. Allen your regards because she is intensely fond of you, as she is of the Ratner-olan. Dr. Robert E, Allen, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, is interning at Bell Memorial Hospital, and will be down tonight. Milton is prac- ticing law and he may also be here, although he is coaching the Haskell Indians, helping out for Marvin Vandaveer who has fone in the service. With all good wishes to you, I am : Sincerely yours, ~ Director of Physical Education, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. a oe apne, ig > onedo gf) y R Wright ght , ate, fy the WAVES - Brat warbin fo roan thea ¥ apenas Lo de thie He ha. Wetoete,, MR EF -14-7 HE) iy Best of Coos Wishes patie March 1, 1945. Mr. Donald R. Roberts, 70 Spruce S8t., Schenectady 4, New York. Dear Donald: Thanks, old fellow, for your very good letter the of 25th regarding the gambling hagard. I enjoyed hearing from you and am reciprosating when I wish you the best of success and — luck. | Sincerely yours, Director of Fhysical Education, FCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach. 70 Spruce Street Schenectady 4, New York February 25, 1945 Dr. Forrest C. Allen 801 Louisiana Street Lawrence, Kansas Dear Phog: Just a few lines from your former Sunday school student of the Union Class. I read your statement to the effect that gamblers were moving in on basket- ball. It makes me mighty proud to know a man that will attempt to abolish this sort of thing. Your lessons in the Union Class taught courage, and you are practic- ing it as well as teaching it. Best of luck. Sincerely wy Nenad te/ G24 Donald R. Roberts ES a RES ET Sa Ge RAL HIGH SCHOOL UCATION AND ATHLETICS A. " SHAWNEE-MISSION DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICA % 4 A : January 25, 1945 ° Dr. F..G. ALion. Basketball Coach ‘University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: We are playing our Leavenworth game on Wednesday, January 24, It was orginally scheduled for Saturday night, January 27; so it will. de. gages for me to attend the K.U. vs. Iowa Stat ame, Since I haven't asked _ you for any ricvete to date, I will make it a good request. I would like to bring my wife, my assistant coach, and my son, I will appreciate any generosity on your part. I se sorry you lost the game in Norman, but those things happen in spite of our best efforts at times, | : oe eh ee ag Yours sincerely, HLR:bin Harold L. Reade Athletic Director “lh wr * Soe Lawrence Feotaty tit BULLETIN LAWRENCE, KANSAS _ NOVEMBER 24, 1944 — acer ee me + een: : ee ee eee ean deere NOVEMBER 27 Mr. Chase, manager of Hercules Powder Company, will give us a talk on the "Plant" followed by oe ee ak Mr. John Martin, who will _— on "Pro- duction. ¥ NOVEMBER 30 Dr. Willis A. Sutton of Georgia, New York, and Tennessee will speak in | the Lawrence Memorial High School Auditorium at 8:00 P.M. NO CHARGE. This educator, lecturer, and friend of youth is Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Ashland, Georgia; Principal of Clay County High School; President of the Alabama Agricultural College; Teacher of English in the Technical High School, Atlanta; President of the National Educational Association; Secretary of the Georgia State Teachers Association; famous the country over for lectures; and organizer of the National Association of Students. He is also guest lecturer for the Educational Department of the Reader's Digest. RENS MeCLURE has been confined to his home due to eye injury. From the latest report Rens seems to be coming along nicely. W. W. DAVIS with ROBERT MicNAIR DAVIS attended a meeting recently to consider Russian Relief. At the suggestion of these two representatives it was decided that relief locally could not be confined to Russia, The demand for clothing will be needed by all. The local community agreed with the sug- gestion of our representatives and plans are now being made to form an organization locally that will be broader in its scope. (The editor served until recently on a national committee for Italian Relief - over 6,000 tons of used clothing was sent to Italy). PHOG ALLEN-District Governor's office has now announced the candidacy of Phog Allen for Governor of District 123. Roy A. Luke of Junction City, has also announced his candidacy. President Hesse requests that each member make it a point to write friends that they may have in other Clubs in our district, telling of Phog's candidacy, and soliciting their votes, Votes for Governor are based upon the number of members in each club. “According to the current by-laws, one vote is granted for each twenty- five members or major fraction thereof. Rotarily, E. F, hic. Around the Rotary World in Wartime Rotary in New Zealand The following are only a few of many activities participated in by Rotary clubs in New Zea- land recently reported by past district governor Fred Hall- Jones (Dist. 53): The Heritage Society—This is an incorporated society which has asked Rotary to establish branches through- out the country. The object, briefly, is to foster the careers of those chil- dren who have lost their fathers in the present war. This will be a major activity of Rotary this year. Health Camps—These camps are the direct product of the Rotary clubs, who launched appeals, pur- chased sites, erected buildings, and set up Health Camp committees to run the camps. The splendid £9000 building at Nelson is the direct prod- uct of the Nelson Rotary club. The Wellington club makes a special ef- fort and raises £200 annually to send children to the health camp. Rural-Urban Meetings — Palmer- ston North last year had 40 farmers at a luncheon, and later took them over the research plots of Massey College. Nelson entertains some 20 farmers annually, and the New Plym- outh club holds a special gathering twice a year in some country town with the local farmers. Dunedin brings in 20 boys from the country and gives them a week in the town visiting factories and firms, and a week in the Y.M.C.A. camp at Waitati. Mosgiel selects farms where agricultural students from town can do their practical training. Picnic for the Aged—130 aged folk were taken out this year by the Gore club to an afternoon tea and enter- tainment. War Finance—Particularly in the ’ main centres club members, through their business organizations, have collected large sums for war loans; Christchurch sold over £80,000 of bomber bonds; and Auckland found nearly £10,000 for the Patriotic. Hast- ings worked on the Queen Carnival. Timaru is running a copper and silver trail and an auction, and the ladies of Rotary a shop. Rotarians Have Their Part to Play In the bulletin of the Rotary club of Wampum (Pa.), for May 7, 1943, we find the fol- lowing: — A great war is in progress. It has long been in progress. The present armed hostilities are but one episode of it. This war will not be ended when and because armed hostilities have ceased. Humanity will continue to be in turmoil until the prob- lems that confront humanity are solved. Rotarians have their part to play in this great war. The Rotary program proposes and urges that men shall be thought- ful of and helpful to each other in their business and social rela- tions—in towns and cities, in urban-rural regions, in nations and in the cooperation of na- tions. 11B-43 Men can not carry out such a program by inactivity or by wishful thinking. In numbers the Rotarians are comparatively few but in influence they may be powerful—if they will to be so. They must have courage to invade every field of human relations with their advocacy of tolerance, understanding, good will and cooperation for the wel- fare of all as the basis of right human relations. —Chesley R. Perry RI. Secretary, 1910-1942 Rotary in the U.S.A. Berkeley, California, Rotary club recently sent a check for $100 to the Oakland Naval Hos- pital for the purchase of hand- craft materials. It made possible a program for ambulatory and bed patients which includes weaving, leatherwork, belt knotting, painting and sketch- ing, clay modelling and wood burning. B WY and STAMPS PROGRESS IN SAN FRANCISCO The Rotary Club of San Fran- cisco, where the post-war Work Pile project originated in the local Chamber of Commerce, states that the first seven re- ports completed by industries in the community showed nearly $10,000,000 in jobs ready to go. They are expecting from 150 to 250 of these reports when the survey is completed. None of. these reports involve any public ‘spending or debt; all cover pri- vate enterprise only. It is be- lieved that 1,000 or more men will be working on the compila- tion of these reports in making up San Francisco’s Work Pile. The Boys on Furlough Whenever you see one of our boys in the service home on furlough, be sure to extend an invitation to come to Rotary as a guest. Don’t leave it to some- , one else thinking that some one may know him better. It will make him feel all the better if four or five ask him to come, and we certainly want to extend hospitality to our boys in the service. —TuHe Spokes Man Unadilla, New York Not Leave Undone A great Teacher once said: “These things ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone.” This is a pertinent word of caution to Rotarians to- day. We must help with ration- ing, civilian defense, building Work Piles, studying post-war problems. We must not leave undone those services to boys and girls, to community welfare, to business standards which Ro- tarians have done so helpfully in the past and which are quite as important today. L) WAR BONDS ase November 25, 1944. Mr. Roy Roberts, Managing Editor, The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo. Dear Roy: I enjoyed your speech very much at the Jayhawker dinner. I am just wondering if you knew that Missouri was the only school that voted against Kansas re-entry into the Big Six. The other schools left the matter open for six months, giving Missouri an opportunity to vote in the affirmative, but she steadfastly refused. It was over five years before Missouri rescinded her negative vote, and voted in favor of Kansas. Whenever I would go to Colwabia we would have a pretty hot time at our games. One day the Chancellor called me in and said he had learned I was rather a stormy petrol at Columbia. I said, "Yes, I was, and still am. And as long as Missouri votes against Kansas being in the Big Six, and then invites them down to play a game, I will not be otherwise. No man can invite me into his parlor and then kick me out the back door. And when Missouri changes her vote we I will regard Missouri as genteel, and not until then.” ih I had several conferences with the faculty representatives ool told them the same thing, and finally the vote was changed. I thought you © _ might already know that Missouri was playing both ends against bail middle in that political controversy. It was good to see you and hear you. A Nery sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. “S.5. 2 ST *yz 9 ; ee a, Semaine | ir a e } od Y ate, <2 a KZ athe ge tei La LE 24,1744 fred HATS tt ae 3 te s C4 2~-e — 1. Be 4. FOUR OBJECTS OF ROTARY To encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and in particular, to encourage and foster the development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service. High ethical standards in business and the professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations. And the dignifying by each Rotarien of his occupation as an oppor- tunity to serve society. The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to his personal, business and community life. The advancement of international understanding, good will, and peace thru a world fellowship of business and professional men united in the ideal of service. October wz, 1944. Miss Mateel Rich, 21 Be 9th Bt., New York 3, N.Y. Dear Miss Rich: I au sending you one of ow’ Jayhawk Rebounds, an epistle that we write each month to the boys in the service. This will give you most of what we know about T. P. The Marines who are coming to see me have not arrived as yet, but next month's issue will carry some added information concerning T. P. 3 We will put you on the permanent mailing list so that you miy keep up with activities at the University from our angle. Thank you for your kind wishes regarding Bob. I am sending you a previous issue of the Rebounds that tells about Bob's wedding. He was president of his class in the medicai college, and yesterday's mail brought us notice that he was appointed chairman of the 1944 alwmi medical class at the University of Penn- sylvania., Bob mde a fine record there. The Rebounds will tell you of course that he is interning at the University of Kansas Hospitals starting November 1. I will not carry on this epistle further because the Rebounds will give you related information better than I oan in the short moments of dictation. Thank you for the poem. It has rather a ghoulish ring. Sincerely yours, Direotor of Physical Education, FCAsAH | Varsity Basketball Coach. € ~ Pe NN ER ey a ye weer Rich = Tube 82 AFTER 5 Days, RETURN TO THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES 393 SEVENTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N. Y, as the frigid archipelago tney yuu. > Football Field Peopled in ghosts the dark field sleeps, Yesterday’s boys have found a goal On. dusty road or bare atoll, Playing for keeps, Silvered the empty bleachers curve, Small winds stirring under the moon. Only the lonely stars observe Ghosts of a russet afternoon. oe Hands on hips, the whistle blowing, A joyous and tumultuous wall Of boys to meet a, fragile ball, The long line crouches, straightens, flowing, Somewhere beneath the bombs’ cold light, Armed with perilous sharp tools, Armed with boys’ own savage rules, They play it out for keeps, tonight. 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