March 5, 1940.

Mire Floyd As Rowe,
Board of Education,
Cleveland, Ohicve

Dear Floyds 2 |
| I have been ashamed of in promising you this
letter so many times % I have returned to the office tonight to
take care of this : il for you. I hope, however, that it has not
been so long that this informetion will arrive too late for your

DUPPOSSS e

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Answering your questions in orders

le ‘There are 640 colleges playing football, so I immgine thet it
would be safe to say there are 1,000 colleges pleying basketball
@s & minimum. This is not coumting the jumior.colleges. The
coaches, trainers, caretakers, end so forth, for varsity and fresh-
men would maiber at least 10 or 12, so I would say 12,000.

2e The highest salary paid any college basketball coach in the Big -
ten, I believe, is $7,500. I do not lmow what Clair Bee or some of

here is $5,200 as director of the zi Educatione
Incidentally I coach and $2,100 of this $5,200 that I
receive is paid for basketball ¢ So you see I have never
taken basketball as my main vocation. I have been offered goodly

courte I believe that $500,000 a field house would be a very modest