PHOG ALLEN VISIONS WAR
AS AID TO COLLEGE SPORT

: CHICAGO, ‘Feb. 1 (INS)—Phog ‘Allen. is no longer a re-
fornier, He sleeps like a newborn babe these nights instead of

worrying over the future of inter-?

collegiate athletics.

Phog explained why, when he
brought his Kansas Jayhawks to
Chicago for a game with De Paul.
The breakfast coffee grew cold. So

- did the toast. But not Phog. He}

“was warming himself up nicely on
a favorite subject.
“This war will accomplish what
- ag few of us have been advocating
for Years,” said Pho. “It will give
: the. games back to the boys.
.  “Where’ll be no place for the
subsidized athlete, the proselyting
_ coach in an America at war- All
. of the artificiality which has
grown up around our college
sports—all of the ballyhoo which
has turned a game inte a business
will be gone when the war is over.
College athletics again will occupy

 

 

their proper place in institutions

of learning.
“Don’t get me wrong, now. I

don’t like war. No sane person |
does. But I do believe that the
sacrifices war will force on us
will readjust our sense of values
and sharpen our perspective on a
lot of things—athletics included.”

Phog has been coaching basketball
longer than most people have been.
aware that there was such a game.
In fact, Dr. James Naismith, who |
invented the game, once endorsed
a picture of himself for Phog as
follows:.
~ “From the father of basketball
to the father of basketball coach-
ing. ”