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POG ALLEN HAS HIS SAY

Pog Allen, a man of a few well chosen words when
asked for an opinion on almost any subject, cut loose the
other day with a blast at coaches who are attempting to
convince some 4-F’s and. some high school lads under 18 .
that they should attend a certain university.

The veteran Kansas basketball coach thinks it’s time
for intercollegiate athletics to have a high commissioner, a
Judge Landis, to keep the colleges in line. He said the col-
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strong as you can speak. Ahd he was only warming to his

subject. He went on to state that the “pseudo patriotism
of some of these so-called big time coaches in both bas-
ketball and football is astounding.

“These fellows are traveling over the country now,
signing up all likely 4-F boys with athletic potentialities.
They are indulging in frantic flag waving while posing as
developers of young men, aiding the war effort through
physicai conditioning programs of athletic games.

“No one need be fooled by their tactics,’ Pog con-
tinued. “They are playing for huge financial stakes. Bowl
games and tournament money. is the lure.”

Allen doesn’t aim fire at any one or two men although
I have an idea that he’s blasting at some few men in par-
ticular. One of them probably is Henry Frnka, Tulsa’s
football coach. |

Although the Southeastern conference had two of its
four teams, Georgia Tech and LSU, in Bowl football games
I don’t think Allen is sharpshooting at the SEC. Tech got
its strength from Navy aid while LSU has Steve Van
Buren, a deferred engineering student, and a flock of 17-
year-olds.

And besides there’ s no law nonine any SEC from of-
fering athletic scholarship to 4-F’s and youngsters under
the draft age. If these practices were okay in peace-time
I think they are at least equally good in war-time. °

The politicians all speak of what they intended to do
for our returning veterans. What’s wrong when the ath-
letic department of some school looks up a young man dis-
charged from the services and offers him aid in getting a
college education? Nothing that I can see provided it does
not violate a conference or school rule.

Frnka over-did a good thing last year scouring the
country for 4-F’s and coming up with a total of 24, some
ef whom whose eligibility was questionable. Frankly I
was disappointed when the Sugar Bowl people saw fit to
invite a team of that sort to its January one attraction
especially after they ran up such a one-sided score against
Arkansas in their finale in the hopes of clinching a Bowl
invite.

If loquacious. Pog is shooting at the Tulsa coach he
ean save his fire because Frnka is having his headaches
without aid from the Kansas cage mentor. Some of’ his
opponents didn’t like the idea of playing a team like he
fielded last fall and they don’t intend to play his this
season.

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