KANSAS STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
REES H. HUGHES, PRESIDENT
PITTSBURG, KANSAS

December 31, 1943.

Dr. Forrest C. Allen,
Coack of Basketball,
Kansas University,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:

Our publicity office has gone on vacation
since the start of the war. I realize tkat I
should kave sent you some material but I have
been away since before Xmas and only returned
last night.

I do not have a regular from last years
team but dg have three reserves who lettered.
They are: GDale Conner a dr. who lettered at
suard. Andy Bertuzzi a Jr. who lettered at
guard and Wilbur Humpkries a Soph who lettered
at forward. Jim ee a starting forward, F
was on the squad the first semester last’ year.

All of our men are members of the Naval
V-12 unit and all of the remainder of the squad
are from out of our normal territory. Raymond
Sloan a Sr has played a couple of seasons as reserve
center at Emporia State. Haherer has been a starting -
forward for us but: could not make the varsity squad
at West Texas State. John Clardy lettered as a
forward at Abeline Christian College but may not
get to make the trip to Lawrence Monday as ke is at
the present time on the "Tree".@/Hollis is from some
small high school in New Mexico and is a Fr. I may
have to take Ralph Earhart from Texas lech who has
never played basketball before and Dave Ryan Trom
Hardin Simmons but he never played any basketball
there.

In the three games that we have played we won
from tke 800th Regiment from Camp Crowder 44-39
and lost to Arkansas at Fayettevillel2-37 and to
the 16th Armoured Division team from Camp Chaffee
at Ft. Smith57-46. Our boys have all been kome
on vacation and have just returned.

We plan to reach Lawrence about four-thirty
Monday afternoon,

Sincerely yours,