AuburnFamilyNews.com: Shug’s 1972 letter from the Presidente De La Comisión Técnica De Foot Ball Americana

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Shug’s 1972 letter from the Presidente De La Comisión Técnica De Foot Ball Americana

Most of Shug’s letters are paired with form letter replies. There are exceptions.

There wasn’t a form letter reply to the Felds, of course, because you don’t send form letters to kids named Tiger — you send honorary scholarships.

Nor was there a form letter reply to the Presidente De La Comisión Técnica De Foot Ball Americana De La U.N.A.M… por obvias razones.

So tell us, Spanish majors—what should Shug have said?

UPDATE: Ask and you shall recibir. TWER reader jrob1324 has our translation, and its pretty cool:

Technical Commission of Football of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

University City, Mexico, D.F. May 4th, 1972

Coach Ralph Jordon.
Auburn University,
Auburn, Alabama

Attention: Assistant to the athletics director Lee Haley.

Allow me to bring to your attention four members of the staff of football coaches from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Hilario Canseco, Raymundo Labra, Manuel Vazquez, and Gilberto Chaves, who will attend, thanks to your good will, the spring practices of your magnificent football team, and, likewise, the clinics that you give.

We are sure that with your guidance, help, and enthusiasm, our coaches will assimilate to your beneficial teachings, so that Mexican football in general and that of the university in particular will improve.

May this introduction be the start of excellent sports relationships between Auburn University and our institution.

Best wishes,
Lic. Mario Ruiz Moreno
President of the Technical Commission of Football of U.N.A.M.



from The War Eagle Reader https://www.thewareaglereader.com/2020/10/shugs-letter-in-spanish-from-the-presidente-de-la-comision-tecnica-de-foot-ball-americana/

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