1108 Tennessee St.
Lawrence, Kansas

December 2, 1941

Dr. Forrest C. Allien

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear “Phog,"

I know you are interested in getting future basketball
prospects to attend the University of Kansas. The two
best basketball prospects in Kansas at the present time,
I think, are Harold Howey, Iola's junior college sensational
athlete, and Dale Hall, a sensational high school star
at Parsons, Kansas. Howey's home is in Pleasanton, Ks.,
the home of Gene Long, K. U. sophomore tackle this fall.

Harold Howey is an all around athlete. He is also
the best football prospect in Kansas at the present time,
in my estimation, and a star outfielder on Iola'ts Champ-
jonship Ban Johnson baseball team last summer that K. U.'s
Knute Kresie pitched so well for. Kmute Kresie can prob-
ably tell you a great deal about Harold. I have been
informed Harold is a good student in his classwork.

Howey established a new Kansas junior college basket-
ball scoring record as a freshman last year avering 16 points
per game. Howey seems to possess as much natural ability
as Engleman or Miller in basketball. He should be eligible
for two years of Big Six basketball. There should be some
K. U. alumni, or friends of K. U., in Iola or Pleasanton, Ks
interested in getting Howey that could be turned loose on
him. I have heard Missouri and other schools are after
him, but think K. U. can land Harold if enough effort is
put forth and the right contacts are made, as I have been
informed he favors the University of Kansas.

The other prospect, Dale Hall seems to be a coach's
“dream player." Hall is an all A student in school and is
trying to obtain admittance into West Point. If he doesn't
go to West Point, I sure want to see him here at K. U.
next fall. I have followed his success on the gridiron
and on the basketball court for the past three years.

He has led football scoring all three years in the Southeast
Kansas High School Conference, and basketball scoring his