Powhattan, Kans.
June 27, 1940

Doctor Forrest C. Allen
Director of Physical Educ.
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Doctor Allen:

In regard to Bruce Holman
FE will say that he is a very fine Boy, &bove average in his
class work, a good athlete and a gentleman at all times,

t rather hesitate to do any
commenting on Bruce as an athlete. You probably hear plenty
of that from enthusiastic coaches who are sincere in their
judgment or F should say sincere in their belief but wrong
in their judgment in regard to the merits of their respective
athletes; however I will say that Bruce is the best basket—
ball player that we have ever had in our school--he was also
quarterback on our foot tall team but when he goes to college
he will not play foot ball as basket ball is the sport he
lives 365 days out of every year. In our Atchison Regional
we were in Class B and Wyandotte was in Class A. Of
course they did not have Evans but critics distinctly thought |
Holman was better than any thing Wyandotte had. Mr. George
Cleland, principal of Atchison High School ang a former ~
star at Baker was one wio was firm in that belief. The boy
is a money player ané goes best under pressure. In our
State tournament at Hutchison the paper was abundant in
their praise of this boy and Chili Cochran who was there
scouting for Kansas State thought him the best boy in the
tournament---—-of course Cochran did not tell me he was
scouting and I dié not see him contact any of the boys but
he was not there on @ picnic. In fact some of the sport
minded followers of Kansas State took him down to Manhattan
on one week end to allow him to see the school but most
Boys and older people too considers the University and
especially the Coach of basket ball as the last word and
authority on that sport and naturally if possible every
basket ball minded boy would like to be a part of that team,

Holman is not an extremely ©
tall boy, only around 5 feet 11 inches tall but he is a good
jumper on both backboards, @ good passer with a vision of.
team success,

As busy as I know you are IF
apologize for taking en undue amount of your time in reading
this lengthy letter; however insomuch as you inquired in
regard to Holman as a scholar ang athlete I have made an
honest attempt to enlighten you the best I cam. TI am not
trying to unfairly describe the boy to you. I am ang shall
always shall be deeply interested in the basket ball teams
of the University of Kansas--at least as long as they are
MeL Rtas of Doctor Forrest ¢. Allen.

Sincerely