Collinwood High School
15210 St. Clair Agenue
GleGeland 10, bio

@ffice of the Principal

March 19, 1945

Dr. Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

My dear Phog:

Thanks for your good letter of March 17th and the comments appended
thereto.

Personally I have missed you verymuch from the rules committee because
you always had a stimulating viewpoint and yet were willing to give and
take when it was necessary to do so to keep harmony on the committee.

I rather think that this will be my last year on the rules committee

as I have a number of times reached the point where I thought things
were done to keep somebody good natured rather than because logic dic-
tated the action.

I would like to raise a question about fouls since I am not sure that
we understand each other. Your list says that you played 23 games in
1944 with 12.78 fouls per game and 17 games in 1945 with 16 fouls per
LAME e

The thing I am not certain about is whether or not fouls per game are
for the University of Kansas or for both teams. The reason I am rais-
ing the question is that such returns as I have indicate that thirteen
and sixteen fouls per game for both teams is very very low and I am
therefore raising the question. Will you kindly write me upon receipt
of this letter using the enclosed air mail envelope so that I can get
the figures correct.

The figures are quite enlightening and yet I dare say the rules comit-
tee will pay no attention to them. I have reports on over 150 college
games amd on over 1,000 high school games and the figures all show an
increase in fouls in 1945 over 1944, I haven't yet applied statistical
methods to the figures but I am certain that when I do it will indicate
that the increase is not only an apparent increase but a real increase
and therefore the committee will have to accept the responsibility for
making the game a rougher one by increasing from four to five fouls.

However, my best guess is that the committee will refuse to reduce the
number from five to four because to do so would mean that a number of
coaches would be forced. to do a little more coaching in regard to some
of the finer points of the game and maybe take out some of the slam
bang tactics that they now employ.