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Well, here's your only chance «= better ball handling, more finesse and
more fight. We won a lot of ball games last year in the last two minutes
of play. Those games could have gone either way, but most of them went
oat way. The law of averages would cause us to feel that we might fall
short on some of tilees scores this year unless you make it happen the way
thet you will it, I still remember Alexander Dumas’ Three Musketeers «=
“S00 200 ans eh ee “ew all, This bunch ef Frenchnen #er many mens
the toughest, roughest men that have ever been portrayed in histary. If
you will pardon mo, I might add thet I still hawe a little of that old

_ fight left, and you are going to find it out. And if yoo don"t train and
don’t fight you are not going to have a berth on this year's varsity.

I trust you have had a rine summer and that you have been working and
not loafing. The rellow that can't find anything to do has fallen short.
This thing of waiting around and loafing because things don't break your
way shows a state of mind of an individual being unable to cope with diffi
- cult situations. some fellows have said that luck has been against them,
listen you «= you make your ow luck, And we made it at Coluhbie, but we
also made it in Lawrence against Oklahoma and Missouri and Nebraska and
Kansas “ggies and Oklehom Aggies and IOWA State and Carleton end Texas,
the second game; and yes, we even made it the first game but we made it
the wrong way. 4nd then against Smthern Methodist we came through a
couple of times. So, I want . say that a team that won't ve beaten can't
be beaten. If you think you ere beaten, you are, If you think you care
not, you don't i for out in the world you will find success begins with a
fellow will, It is all in the state of mind, “

Met's go, gang!

Sincerely yours,