Sport Dying :
Of Rottenness,
Holds Coach

Kaheaghvlentor Hits
Rise of Proselyting
In Basketball

LAWRENCE, Kas., Jan. 23.— |
Dr. Forrest (Phog) Allen, Uni-
,versity of Kansas basketball
coach who loves an argument;
has a characteristic reply to critics
who disagree with his statement that
‘college football will die a natural
‘death in 10 more 4
/years,

“If the post-
man stopped to
kick at every dog
that barked at
his heels he >
never would get
his mail deliver-
ed,” he said.

Allen, at the
same time, re-
affirmed his
charge that com-
mercialism and
bleed =: is
causing college “
football to “die PO et
of its own rottenness.”” He also
complained that there is a “rising
professional tendency in college’ aa
ketball.”

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COLLEGE HEADS BLAMED

“The college presidents are at fault
in the beginning,’ he said. “Why
should we sugar coat and lie to high
school athletes when in the long
run supplying them with an educa-
tion is the basic purpose of college?

“Swayed by his inexperience: and
glowing promises of ‘gold,’ the high
school athlete is at tne mercy of
profit-seeking coaches who see in
him only the means to build a foot-,
ball team,” he added.

Allen indicated that the - fang
themselves are growing tired of the
“hypocrisy” with which colleges
proselyte prospective stars, and
added that “out and out profes-
sionalism would be an BOTY RE OR
over the present system.’ My

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NO PROMISES, ‘HE ‘SAYS

The Kansas coach, whose basket#
}ball teams have won 16 champion-
\ships in the 23 years he has been at
the university, said that never had
he been guilty of luring “unsuspect-
ing young rabbits into the fold with
glowing promises of board, Toont;
laundry and other chattels. |
- “To me, the respect of my athletes
is much more valuable than a
basketball championship,” he said,
“Jt has always been my policy to
rank school work ahead of basket-
pall, My present policy of not play=
ing the boys who have lower than :
average baeks up. this statement.’