Dr. Allen, # 2.

loose from the basketball and you regained possession of the ball,
we did foul you while you were going for your shot.

You have coached basketball much longer than I have, but you know
that this ball game was not a bruising ball game as the newspapers
were led to believe, It was merely pushing, checking and grabbing
of wrists. As I recall, there was only one hard contact play in
the entire game.

This is one point I would like to raise. A. & M. drew six fouls,
three on a freshman Tom Boyd and three on Frank Bogert. I think
you will recall the plays. Both boys were covering your boy
Schnellbacher., He was in the act of catching the ball. The

A. & M. players came up from behind in an effort to slap down the
ball as he received it. In so doing they made contact from the
rear, which is a foul. Take the same boys that committed these
fouls and put them on the defensive backboard and let your offensive
player come in from behind and try to gain possession of the ball
and contact was clearly made and there was not any fouls called.

If in the minds of the officials we could not come from the rear out
on the floor and make contact without committing a foul, certainly
the same interpretation should be used on our defensive backboard.

Another play that occurred time and time again in the game was,

A. & M. would have possession of the ball under the Kansas basket
and we repeatedly dropped the ball to the floor. Now Doctor, the
Aggies are not a fumbling ball club on the defensive end of the
floor and that is my criticism of the officiating of the ball game.

In regards to finishing the ball game with four men, I felt that we
had been treated very much out of the ordinary when we were penalized
with seventeen violations and twenty-three fouls, something that has
never happened to a ball club that I have handled in my time of
coaching. That is all I have to say regarding the finish of the ball

game.

Doctor, I tried to be frank in what I have said in this letter and I
hope that in the near future you and I can sit down and talk this
over, as I think we would both feel better about it.

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