December 19, 1942. lir. Willard Rutzen, ' Manager, Hotel Morrison, Chicago, Illinois. Dear Mr. Rutzen: Thie will acknowledge receipt of your wire informing us that you are reserving accommodations for our University of Kansas basketball team. Your arrangements are entirely satisfactory. We wili arrive in Chicago on the Senta Fe at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday evening, December 22nd. ‘There will be fifteen men in our party. Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. C3 =< . i > December 16, 1942. Mr. Bob Fisher, 16236 s Detroit, Michigan. Dear Bob: The more I think of it the more I feel that we are infringing upon the homes of many of the K. U. alumi in Detroit. If we . p : f f E g é g a gs al as For the 24th, I would much prefer that we go to one of the — hotels and stay there on the 24th; but on second thought, I believe it would be much better for us to ee ' to Buffale, arriving there on the 24th. : a action on that if you will write me at once. I certainly do not want to. break up plans that you have made, but at the sane anxious to keep these boys pretty close | § H Regarding hotel, we can double up a with three double beds, at $15.00. That is the price quoted by the De- troit Leland. Is that a good hotel? I do not want to pay too much, but at the same time we want nice places. If you will inquire if we can get that accommodation at the Detroit Leland and if it is a nice place, I suggest that you make tentative arrangements for us. / Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, PCA: AH 3 Varsity Basketball Coach. Detroit, Michigan. Monday, Dec 7th. 1942. Dre Forrest C. Allen, Dep*t—of Physical Education, University of Kansas. Dear Phog: I was very sorry when I got home this evening to find your letter of Dec. 4th saying that you would not stop in Detroit for reasons mentioned. Please reconsider. You have my letter written Sunday and posted this mornixg, telling of pland we have made to have you come. The detail of practive here I have now made. The down town Y.M.C.A. gym will be open to the téam the morning of Dec. 24th from 9230 to 12:00 noon. They would like to have the team ¢ off the floor by noon. The "Y" will be delighted to have you and the only cost will be that for towels when the boys go to the showers. Their physical director, George Gillesby, said to me " Phog Allen is the foremost basketball coach in the country. His teams are aliays pulling something new. He has written a book on basketball which I have. Will you ask him if it will be OK for some of our boys to watch the team work out 7“ So that's how you stand there. I asked him about a work out# on the evening of the 23rd. Their gym will not be available then but I am sure I can get the DAC gym which is - less than a block away or if not there are plenty of school gyms,- Wayne University is nearest,@ which will be open then. When the subjact first came up of your coming to Detroit I thought of it first only in terms of havéng you and the boys at an alumi meeting. I went over the proposition as carefully as I could and I am sure that a meeting held so near to Xmas would not be a successe It did not occur to me at the time that some of us could arrange to meet you anyway and that the advent of the team stopping in Detroit # would create additional interest in KU in our alumni group here. You will be coming thru Detroit anyway on you way to Buffalo, or at least you can, and it seems to ine that you will be doing both the school and our association up here a service to let us play host to you and the team. There is no question as to my finding tne time or getting the help to take care of everything. As a salesman my time is pretty much my own and there is little doing in XMXEXXZHK my line at that time. Moreover I have taken no vacation this year and 7 I wantK to take two full days off white you are here I XM have my company's full permission to do so. As to gas, I am saving 100 miles to use on the team while you are here This will be part of the 18 gallong I filled## the tank up with before rationig took affect. I am sure Lovett can get us permission to go thru the Ford plant if you would like to see it and Bob Mosby said he could get us in the tank plant. (Dfar Sth Ae th, .- bens 4 7 So, reconsider this thing Phog, and decide to spend the night of the 23rd and 24th with us. If you do, which I am sure you should, wont you write Geo. Gillesby of the "Y" and tell him that you are coming ? He wpuld like to get a line from you and morepver he wants to put a notice of it-in the "y" lacal paper and put it on the bulleting board. I want also to get some publicity on your stop ae the local papers. I have friends on the News and one of our alumni, S. Lee Bowers, fs'32, is on the Detroit Times. I wonder if you could send me three small Pictures of O° yourself and also some material about the team this year that I could make up into an article for the three papers, the Detroit News, Detroit Times, and Detroit Free Presse Send me three schedules and the team record so far and a statement from you as to the teams prospects and also what you think as to the future of basketball at KU nextA What will be the affect of the war on athletiess in the Missouri Valley ? etc. You know what they want. Anything unusual about any of the boys on the team. Also a little sketch of yourself. I will write this all up and send it to the three papers in advanee and#:they will boil it down and rewrite at and color it to suit themselves. You know how the newspaper boys go at these things. But I am sure everyone of them will run a part of it with your picture for you have, after all, been known all over the country for your championship teams for manf years. Moreover it will be a story they can write at their desks without going out. I am far removed from the world of athletics myself but I am sure you are a prime source of news . Would you say that basketball,should be taken up by the army ? Are there any changes in the rules contemplated.?, Don't you think the middle Wast plays better basket ball than the Hast Htc. Talk this trip over again with Fred El&sworth. At the time ! wrote him I was not so sure as to what we could do but after talking with some more o of the boys and in view of the publicity we will get I am sure we will have a fair number out to see youe I have about enough personal items now for a secon@ bulletin before Xmas and I would like to include ih it also a notlce of your coming. MARKAZAAAKAXKS Very sincerely, : Bt J. 16236 Cheyenne. Dre Forrset ¢C. Allen, Director of Physical Education, University of Kansas. Detroit, Michigan. Sunday, December 7th. Dear Phog: I will try to writerthis letter on an old machine we have altho IT am none too good with two fingers. I was very glad to get your letter of November 27th saying that you and the boys could stop toosee us on your way Baste Be sure to tome by Michigan Central as your train will then pass ~ within 300 yds of the Ford Willow Run bomber plant just outside of Ypsi- lanti and within a half mile of the great Ford Rouge plant just outside the city limits of Detroit. These plants are visible from no other R.R. Now asxto accomodations. I saw BOb Mosby, who is a- member of the DeAeCesy at once about the team staying thare. Bob called me the next day to - say that the DAC could not put the team.up. They are too crowded at the present time. I was not surprised. The DAC is4 swank business men's club and at the present time with the magnitude of the war effort here it must _ be crowded with visiting business gov't and military men. I next called the hotels. At them you can get any accomodation you care to pay for. Here is the line up. BOOK CADILLAC- $ 3.00 per person, two to a room, all on one floor. STATLER- $ 3.00 single, $ 5.50 double, or can put six in a room with six cots at $ 2.50 each. DETROIT LELAND- $ 5.00 double or six in a room with 3 dble beds at $ 13.00 FORT SHELBY- $ 1.75 each, four or five to a room. TULLER- $ 1.50 each, four to a roome The Statler and Tuller are side by side and both adjoin Grand Circus Park. The Detroit Leland and Book are about a block and two blocks away resoectively. The Fort Shelby. is a half mile away. I mention this because the down town Y.M.C.A. is just across the park from these hotels, about two blocks away and there you can get your work out. I saw their Mr. Vail, director, and he said he would be very glad to have the team work out there and was going to put me in tomch with their physical director to find what hours the gym would be open but he was not in. It was yesterday I saw him and I will get this informahion Monday. Page two. If you budget allows it I would shay at the Statler. The Book is supposed to be the best in town but I doubt it is much better than the Statber — and it is a little farther away. The Fort Shelby is too far away. The 4 Detroit-Leland is a very good hota. The Tuller is just as good a hotel as you would find in any smaller town ( far better than the one is Ann Arbor for example ) but it is an older hotel and the hewer ones are better. I would have no objection to staying there myself and its location is excellent. Be sure to let me khow how many are in the squad and how many will be in the party. Also at what time you will arrive. We will meet you at the train and drive you ail to your hotel. This will be on the 23rd. On that poe *1 evening I hope that some of us can have a small group dinner together eit will find a place. The hotels are out of the question because they charge too muche Remember the Greenfield cafeteria when younare in Detroit. They serve the best food in town and are right dom town. I think we will go to the Peacock tea room for dinner where you can get an exceklent course dinner for a dollar. It is within a block of the General Motors Buolding and the boys could take a look at the war exhibits there before we went back down town. The G.M. building as you probably know ighbout 4 miles from down town. Now as to Thurdday, the 24th. You will want to work out in the morning. There may even be time for a work out on the 23rd before dinner if you get in soon enough. After you have had lunch will see that you see one of tse war plants in Detroit or maybe just a ride around town if the boys would rather do that. To my mind &XXXtaonide thru the better residential districts does not offer much but the boys may like it. They had better pick the Chrysler Tank plant or Ford River Rouge. On the evening of the 24th I would like to have the boys split up to spend the night before Christmas with us in our homes, a boy or two to a home. I would like to have you spend that evening with me, Phog. Now don't say that you wouldn't want to put us to that trouble and all that. You don't suppose thatothe K.U. Alumni up here would want thoge boys to spend that evening in a hotel, do you ? I talked to Walter Shannon about it and theffirst thing he asked was if one of the boys could. not come out and stay with him. Just consider that part arranged. Leave it to mee Some of the boys will be taken to Birmingham and some to Grosse Pointe but we will take care of them all. This brings us to the 25th. I think you had wetter get the Michigan ###k Central out of here at 8:30 asm. which will put you in Buffalo at about © 1:00 pem. That will give you the afternoon for a good workout and the night for a good night's sleep and with a workout the next morning the boys will be on edge for the game in theceveninge --_Laé me know how how this program fits in with your plans Phog and I will work out all the details. On the evening of the 25th the boys will have dinner at the homes of the Alumni where they will stay for the evening. In that way some of will renew our contact with KU in a way we could not at a formal evening and we will all be a jittle closer to K.U. as a result of your visit. - Very sincerely yours, Fob 16236 Cheyenne, a Detroite i chanel ER ge ot ici ni soni i i ae Rate a a Be out Cc. Sha, oY hatte Gk, 5 end ee es ow wt bot. at es | ae Sane i ee er ae : 2 ee ee ne yk De. 2304 C.. thy) GT pe cue hb Fara me | : ee Pm A ed cd om Sak Sako, faa: Conn’ Paget. fb +t ee. So Pn ae rh man ae th). ps oa , Os ee ka re ete, t Jenrh Ter. Wt apchr thas Duk, ot cee} ¢ wot 4 S$ a — foe oR Sat ae eta , ” | | Hormiver = We 4d Be Boe i oA em gt at a ay 2 ede 23 nick waa one ee. Cond | ane: om DS %, SiS pm. (eas ear Be B47Y on... 2.597) Ain iat oe ~ ‘oan Secs rf a as 8 ae nee a ee oe. es fr dn wl - ee ‘ao ead wh t He weit nd oe he \ fs a tin MI gs “ts. At Sea tin 6 om Gm Th 3 ~ Git fex~- hn tn Mens tt Afi, welf- 2 s 6 tt ee a i.e. | Bie oe i he Some fhe lows: £9.20 ne Ga.) Ae on pio | atoms white, Nap arg tba leet: edie 4th a ASIA ns.Sthed- ae aed eee. December 14, 1942. Mr. Beb Fisher, 16236 Cheyenne, Detroit, Michigan. Bear Bobs I have been swamped with work and have not had an to answer directly your good letter of the 7th instant. However, I had my secretary write you posthaste that we would be glad to ~ accept your generous invitation. Then I went out of town and since I have been back I haven't had an opportimity to dictate three min- utes to get a letter off to you. But I knew that you would have the essential information that you desired, and that I sould follow up shortly. I em doing that now. I had spoken to Chuck Elliott, our sports publicity man, and asked him toe mail you Saturday afternoon all the data that we thought you would want. He was also sending you some glosses of the players and by referring to our pports publicity brochure I am swre that you can get all the data that you desire. oo I am also writing George Gillesby. I am enclosing a carbon scopy of the letter to you that I wrote him. We will want to practice at the Y.M.C.A. and of sourse will get out of their way before noon. We will be delighted to pay what expenses are connected with cur I em enclosing a mmber of schedules so that you may distribute them to the group that you come in contact. with, and we will being , ms | 22a We are playing Creighton University here tomorrow night and etting our team and equipment ready for the first home game is chore. We are building two new electric scoreboards and clecks, and the electricians and carpenters have had me tied for too many hours on that. However, I will write you another etter in the next day or so giving you the persomel of our squad the data, and any other necessary information that we think you should have. B With all good wishes and sincere appreciation, I am Very cordially yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. December 14, 1942. Ur. George Gilleaby, Physical Direstor, Downtown ¥.M.C.Ae, Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Bob Fisher, president of our Detroit alumi, has informed me that it would be possible to avail ourselves of a work-out in your gymmesium on the morning of Denember 24th from 9:50 to 12 noon. This is very generous of you and I assure you that we will be out ef your way long before noon. You will pardon me for the brevity of this letter but I am just getting ready te coach my varsity team and so will hope for @ very pleasant visit with you after our arrival. Assuring you thet we do greatly appresiate your hospitality, I a, Sincerely yours, . Director of Physical Education, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. : ee “eT: BUFFALO EVENING NEws BOB STEDLER SPORT R * oe Dec.16th,1942. My Dear Coache= I have yours of the 14th at hand,Ned Iris h spoke to me about your connecte ion with the team that defeated the Germans way back in '05, I told Irish | would be happy to arrange to have the old boys meet you when you came here, Heerdt,Miller Brothers,Faust and Hanweiller are still alive and all of them doing fairly weel, I will send your letter to Al Heerd “t's residence and I'm quite sure he will be Helighted to be on hand when you get here,I'1il have my basketball writer use some sort of a story connectins up the old with the new game and the two teams of 57 years ag0e very truly yours December 16, 1942. Mr. Lee Blaser, Manager, Buffalo Athletic Club, Buffalo, New York. Deer Mr. Blaser: Our basketball team may come into Buffalo on . the 24th of December, but I will let you know definitely prior to our arrival. We are debe Detroit on the 24th. This is only tentative, but I will let you kmow definitely. There will be 15 men in our party. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, — PCA:AH 3 Varsity Basketball Coach. Osteber 5, 1942. lire Lee Blaser, Manager, — Buffale Athletic Club, Buffale, New York. Dear Mr. Blaser: Thank you for your kind letter of September 30th. We shall be very happy to pring our basketball team te your Buffele Athletic Club, and I will write you a little later regarding monus. Very sincerely yours, ! Direster ef Physical Education, FCAAE Varsity Basketball Coach. BUFFALO ATHLETIC CLUB BUFFALO September 30th, 192 Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Director of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: At the suggestion of Ned Irish, a member of this Club, I amwriting to you about the possi- bility of your Basketball Team staying here upon the occasion of its visit to Buffalo. We are prepared to offer you a special room rate of $2.00 per man per night, two men to a room, in twin bedded room with a private bath containing both tub and shower bath. Will you please let us know at your earliest con- venience whether or not you will wish to stay here during the winter basketball season? We are experienced in the preparation of pro- per training meals for athletic teams and if you will at the same time send us the menus you desire, we can give you quotations on the meals you may require. May we hear from you at your earliest conven- ience? Sincerely yours Lee Blaser, Manager Decenber 16, 1942. Mr. Jim Wells, Dear Mr. Wells: I am enclosing some material that may assist you in preparing something for our short broadcast when we are in Buffale. Pick out anything you care to use. I have sent to Bill Stedler, sports editor of The News, a copy of my book, "Better Basketball", calling his attention te reference to the Buffalo Germans. You might get in toushwith him and get some additional stuff. It will be a pleasure to see you when we arrive in Buffalo. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, PCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach. | December 1, 1942. Mr. Jim Yells, Sports Commentator, WEEN, Ince, Hotel Statler, Buffalo, New York. - Dear Mr. Wells: Thank you for your kind letter of November 23rd. We shall be glad to cooperate with you in sports broadcast when we are in Buffalo on December 26th. : Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, POA: AH | Varsity Basketball Coach, s x WBEN ». BUFFALO EVENING NEWS RADIO STATION HOTEL: STATEER, BUEEALO, N.Y, November 25, 1942 Dr. Forrest C. Allen Coach of Basket ball University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas My dear Doctor Allen, Although some time remains before the actual date, I can assure you basketball fans in the Queen City are avidly awaiting the schediled appearance of Kansas and its famed coach in Memorial Auditorium, Saturday, December 26th. Naturally, WBEN, through my department, supports the dis- trict collegiate cage programs to the utmost, and, in this connection, I an writing to request your appearance for an interview. I conduct a nightly sports column, 6815-6350 ani would like you as my guest the night of your game with Can is ius. — nee | me WBEN, as local authorities will attest, is the dominant station in this area, which means your co-operation in this regard will serve a double purpose. It will be at once splendid missionary work for Kansas, and, of course, will help to swell the attendance for the doubleheader bill on which your team appears. I an trying to set up a full schedule of interviews in advance, for publicity purposes, hence would appreciate a speedy acknowledgment from yore Will you please include a short list of questions you might like asked? Also, if possible, include a cut of yourself for newspaper public- LUY e Thank you in advance, and, of course, a wish for your good fortune this coming season, a “ Z, Yells Sports Commentator December 15, 1942. tr. Bill Stedler, Sports Biitor, the News, Buffalo, New York. | Dear Mrs Stedlers BASKETBALL The University of Kansas vs. The Creighton University at the Creighton Gymnasium, Omaha, Nebraska, March 4, 1943. Gym Location Transportation Dressing Room Playing Court Ball Playing Suits Game Time Pre=game Ceremony Officials Twenty~fourth and Burt Streets. Best entrance from Twenty-fifth and California Street. Fifteen blocks from heart of business district, Street Railway Bus stops in front of Administration Building, Twenty-fifth and California. Board bus any place in downtown district on Fifteenth Street going north. Fare 10¢ per person and checks 3 for 25¢. Taxicabs; four persons to a cab; twenty-five to thirty cents per cab from business district to west entrance of gymnasium. Enter gym at west and take stairs to second floor. Private room available at east end of gymnasium on the ground floor. Entrance from playing court on second floor, (spiral stairway at east end of court). Showers adjoin dressing room. Trainer, Team Physi«# clan and assistant with water available on court during game. Regulation in size, 98 ft. x 50 ft. Medart Fan Shaped Backboards four feet from end line. Bound~ ary jines free from obstructions. All lines in black. Scorer's and Timer's table on north side opposite division line. Players located on each side of Scorer and Timer table. Electric clock controlled from Timer table. Scoreboards on each end of floor, Last Bilt Ball adopted by Conference and used in all home games, unless stitched type ball requested in advance, By Conference rule Creighton usually wears white at home (both pants and jersey). On request can wear full blue suits. 8:50 PM No preliminary. Introduction and presentation of visiting coach. Starting players introduced as they take the floor, Spot light used. Visitors introduced first. Pre= sentation of colors. ? Referee: Ronald Gibbs Umpire ; Max Roper .