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Phos’ Allen Hurls

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LAWRENCE, Kan., Dec. 7 UP)—
Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen charged
today that college bowl-winning
teams :were more professional than
the Chicago Bears.

“The Bears, at least, publish the

salaries paid their players,’ the K.

U. basketball coach said. “It’s all

»|clandestine in the colleges but

they’re getting paid one way or
alother.

“All you have to do is to listen
to those boys talk. My informants
many times have been men on the
teams involved. They. talk freely
about it but it’s still ‘news’ to the
colleges,

“When we get into the big time
bowl stuff, it becomes highly pro-
fessionalized because’ the teams are
out fighting for those bids and for
the men who can earn those b

Declining to name schools for the
record but mentioning them private-
ly, he said one midwest school was
paying its athletes throuh $150-a-
month highway department jobs
with $40 of that sent directly to the
university to. pay educational ex-
penses.

“When you get into that, you find
a close tie-up with political powers,”
Allen pointed out,

He said many different ways: were
employed to pay college athletes, the
old fraternity system in which the
houses took in the stars; legislative
scholarships, payment by . wealthy
followers of the schools, payment. by |
the Athletic association directly to
the university, and state jobs, .to
name a few.

Allen cut loose first ah “profes-
sionalized” bowl teams in a speech
yesterday afternoon before the Kan-
sas City Rotary club. ‘He is district
governor of the Rotarians. :

Allen told his brother Rotarians,
among other things, that football
and basketball teams of colleges
and universities were actually being
run by gamblers and predicted a
football scandal worse than last
year’s New York cage sports scandal.