UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

 

DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS

September
Thirtieth
9 44

Dr. Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical Bducation
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

I am writing you about a boy, Hallie Hudson, who is
enrolled here at the University.

He came in yesterday and told us that he had enrolled at
T.P.I. last year and has played in several freshmen games,
That, of course, makes him ineligible to phay in our
Conference. We have a ruling here in our Conference that
if a boy has matriculated in any other institution and has
participated in one game he is ineligible to participate
in a Southeastern Conference school.

I have followed this boy with a great deal of interest and
picked him up in an N. Y. A. camp at McKenzie, Tenn. He

is six feet, five inches tall and weighs 188 pounds, stripped.
He comes from a family that is very poor and he has no means
of attending school whatever. Since we have scholarships
here in basketball we thought enough of his ability to offer
him a freshman scholarship. He has unusual ability and I
felt he would make us an outstanding center. He has played
a lot of ball and he is a boy of unusually fine habits. He
passed our entrance examinations here in good shape and I

do not believe that he would every give you any trouble in
regard to his studies.

Is there any way that you could use him at all? I am interesta@
in sending him to you as he requested me to write this letter
and I also feel that I would like to send you someone sometime
that might do you some good. Naturally, if this boy were
eligible to play here I would have kept him. I would appreciate
hearing from you as he would be interested in enrolling there
the second semester. I understand your register has closed

for the first semester,

Sincerely KE.
Adolpy fF. Rupp 17
Varsity Basket Coach

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