Che University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma

INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

September 23, 1938

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
Basketball Coach
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Allen:

Your research on basketboards should bring together
some interesting data in opinions. With the invention of
this new Bask-O-lite and with the light so arranged that
the spectators will register or react simultaneously with
the shooting of the basket, we still seem to be at a dis-
tant point in bringing those spectators who find seats at
the end of the court in a desirable focus of the plajh’field.

It might be that glass backboards would solve the
problem, using as few supports as necessary to hold it
rigid. With wood or steel backboards about all that we
can use to increase the visibility directly behind the
baskets would be to round the top of the backboards. I
say the rounding because of the few times that the ball
actually hits the corner of the backboard. Either this
or by decreasing the dimensions all the way around. I
personally would be in favor of anything reasonable
that would make for better seats of the ones at either
end of the courts.

Best of luck to you and continued success.
Sincerely yours,

Bruce Drake