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So you can see that Kansas has a great opportunity to play right
in the front i of the nation's biggest basketball extravaganzae If you don't
‘like that big word, then I will give you anothers It will be terrific, stupendous,
colossol, gigantic and emotionslly devastatingg You will remember that the Univ
ersity of Oregon defeated Ohio State last year in Chicago, and at the present time
Oregon is the Netional Collegiate champion in basketball. All of these pley-offs
are timed so that Kensas will lose little time away from sehool, and yet play in
America's national championship. This is the greatest opportunity that has ever
come to @ group -thet-hes-ever represented Kansas in basketball.

I have been staying on the job here pretty steadily in Lawrence
with the exception of the trip I took to Atlanta, Georgia, to coach the North
Georgia allstar high school boyse They used a new scheme down in Georgia in a
pedagogical waye The Georgia Coaches Association picked ten allestar high school
‘seniors from the north half of Georgia and they selected me to coach that teas
Then ten senior high stars were picked from the south half of Georgia, and they
selected Roy Mundorff of Georgia Tech to coach that team. The visiting coaches,
186 of them, sat in the bleachers in Tech's new gymasium and watched Mundorff
and me put the boys through the paces that we would exeoute in drilling our
varsitye We had never seen these boys before, and you can imagine that when you
only have five days to do a job like that you have to organize your work pretty
carefully. The two tesuas met for a game in Tech's new gymnasium, and strange
as it may seen, edgihece iaieek people turned out for the high school basket~ —
ball gamee I might add that I was darn lucky to have our North Georgia boys win .
the ball gamee We won by about seven points and it was the surprise of my life
because we did not draw the rangy boys from our North Georgia groupe They had
Augusta and the larger schools in their section and they play better basketball

and poorer football in southern Georgia and better football and poorer basketball

in northern Georgia, so the ones who seemed to know say.