College Sports Should Have Commissioner, Coach Tells Newsmen

Suggestions for a National Commissioner to superintend college athletes were advanced yesterday by Forest C. Allen, coach of the All West basketball team at a New York Herald Tribune luncheon.

College presidents are now supposed to supervise, college sports, but Allen claims "they have done little with their power to regulate the gambling and special privileges often connected with athletes."

The main purpose of the commissioner would be to put a ceiling on aid for athletes, says Allen. He wants college presidents to surrender the power they now have.

Allen, also coach of Kansas' basketball squad, declared that the midwest "hasn't got the mess you have in New York," and that Los Angeles was a "cess pool" as far as gambling and fixing games was concerned.

Referring to the recent gambling scandals in basketball; he said "we coaches will have to accept the responsibility for gamblers. We went out and got them."