Mr. J. Fuller Groom, ;
Northwestern National Life Insurance Co.,
313-14 Orpheum Building, :
Wichita, Kansas.

Dear Mr. Groori:

| I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January ird
relating to Gerald Tucker's eligibility for competition in the
Big Six Conference. This is a matter for the faculty eligibility
committee to decide, and this committee of Dr. King, chairman,
Professor Davis and Dr. Bergman, have all the facts in the case.
There is nothing for the athletic directors or the basketball
coaches to do in a case of this kind, and the ruling will be made
by the faculty eligibility committee. If their ruling is adverse
to Oklahoma, Oklahoma has the right to appeal to the faculty re-
presentatives of the Big six Conference, which they have done.

I believe that you will quite agree with me that s

a legally constituted authority, and it is perhaps best

te them for their decision. Just as you have constituted au

in your Northwestern National, we have authority vested in our
faculty representatives. These men are all friends of the students
as each of them has been connected with student life for over thirty
years. For that reason I am very sure that whatever enthusiasm we
have it should be directed in the line of fair play and enthusiasm
fer people who follow the rule.

At no time in the history of the world have rudes and laws
meant so little to people as now. If a rule is breken someone tries
to throw on some extraneous situation and smoke screen the issue as

These Big Six faculty representatives are on their respective
athletic boards and they perhaps have had a great many cases of this
kind to consider before. |