‘it Will B Have To Be Golden’— —

Allen Warns Colleges F eels
Post-War Athletic Scandal

LAWRENCE, Kan., Oct. 13 (UP)—Dr. Forest C.
(Phog) Allen, basketball mentor at the University of

Kansas and self-styled sage

of middle-western coaches,

‘suggested today that colleges employ a national high
‘commissioner to rule in the manner of Judge Kenesaw M. |

 

Landis in baseball to “save the de-*
cency of collegiate athletics after
the war.”

college athletics,
said that unless
such an office
‘was created
there would be
a post-war
scandal in foot-
ball and basket-
bal that would
|overshadow any
similar incident
since baseball’s
‘*Blacksox’’ ‘
World. Series ee
ideal of 1919. Phog Allen

Allen, whose cage teams are prac-
tically the perennial champions of
ithe Big Six, predicted a post-war
golden age of sports.

“It will have to be golden,” he
said. “There won’t be enough silver
to hire the big boys.”

Recommends Commissioner

| Allen suggested that “college ad-
ministrators should see to it that
the office of the President of the
United States should nominate the
commissioner. .

“Something is going to happen,”
he said. “If educational institutions
are efficient, they will set up some
machinery that will protect them
from a national scandal. As sure as
| you live, the thing is going to crack

 

wide open sometime when they. ie
bare an incident where some group
of college boys have thrown a game
for a tidy sum. That will happen
because there is more money being
bet on football and _ basketball
games in America today, than is bet
on all the horse races being run.”

Allen said “the fellows who run
the Amateur Athletic Union should

invite the highly proficient base- |
ball and football executives into}

their fold to teach them how to
run their professional athletics.”

College Heads Confess Danger

The Jayhawker coach pointed}

Out that the American Association

of University and College Presi-|
dents has failed to do anything}

about athletics from a post-war
angle except to acknowledge that
they have gone professional.

“Now,” he’ said, ‘the scramble
is on to get big game name coaches
to man the guns and fill the stadia
to dripping capacity. They will be
out after the returning stars, when
they doff their uniforms and cam-
paign ribbons and will use the
GI Bill of Rights to help them lure
the boys into the fold.

Along with the Government
money they (the coaches and
schools) will be offering bonus
dough for playing on their par-
ticular team.

Allen said he had no objection
to scholarships, openly arrived at

land lived up to.

“But what we are facing today,”
he said, ‘is that some schools pay

1$45 a month, some $75, some pay

(on up.
‘stabilize things and this hypocrisy
is practiced now would be

board and room, tuition, books and
A cOmmissioner would

that
dealt with summarily.”