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Show Coach Asserts College Aces Evading Taxes LAWRENCE, Kan, Nov. 11 JP Kansas' Phog Allen foresees a crackdown by the Internal revenue department on some college athletes. ath-letes. The 63-year-old University of Kansas basketball coach charged Thursday that many college athletes ath-letes are cheating on their income tax returns. "It is known that some amateur athletes are drawing from $10,000 to $20,000." Allea said in a Kl-wanis Kl-wanis club speech. "Junior college athletes In Kansas are now being paid from $60 to $100 a month. "Those salaries are not now being reported for income taxes," Several coaches, however, scoffed at Allen's remarks on players' pay. In commenting on the Big Seven conference, ofwhlchKansaila member, Allen said: "A few years ago Don Faurot (University of Missouri football coach) and Jap Haskell (former University of Oklahoma athletic director) were breaking every rule in the book by paying players." Both Faurot and Haskell laughed off the remark. That's Phog for you," said Haskell, Has-kell, now a Tulsa Insurance agent "He Just has to get a blast off his ehest every now and then. It's al-most al-most a yearly habit with him." |