THE CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS

OMAHA, NEBRASKA
REV. DAVID A. SHYNE, S. J.

DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS April 30, 1942

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

Dear Phog:

I heve your letter of April 27 and appreciate your suggestions
relative to working out dates for next season.

Our plans are still tentative in many respects, so it is
impossible to be too definite, especially with reference to
a pre-holiday game. We have contracts to play here on
December 2lst and 23rd. There is a tentative possibility for
a West game on December 18th or 19th. Utah has asked us

to pley there on December lith. In this event, it will be
necessary for us to add additional games in order to finance
such a trip. The possibilities that have been suggested
call for games on December 12th, 14th, and 15th. Prior

to this trip we hope to conclude a previous contract with
South Dakota for an opening game in Omaha.

Perhaps it would be best to wait a few days longer on the
development of these possibilities. I am not too sure that
we can have permission to be absent from school the necessary
time to work in a trip to Utah mentioned above.

I should like to have you keep in mind the date of January 50th
in the event the Great Lakes game does not materialize for

you. A good suggestion for an Omaha date would be March drd

or 4th, should you care to croud it in between your Big Six
games. Possibly you would like to travel to Omaha after

your game at Columbia. The February 8th date offers a good
solution for our game there. Since you cannot play after

the 16th of December, possibly a December 17th or 18th date

in Omaha would work out in the event our West Coast date

did not materialize.

I will keep in close touch with you and would be glad to
have any further suggestions. I want to assure you that
even at the expense of crowding our schedule we will conclude
very shortly on dates that will be completely satisfactory.

With good wishes and kindest regards, I am
So yours,
ESH:CC E. S. Mickey
Basketball Coach