MITT ALLEN

ALLEN, MILTON 'MITT'  PERRY             

  Son of Phog Allen ('07), Brother of Bob Allen ('41), Nephew of Pete Allen ('04)

Hometown:  Lawrence, KS

1933-34:  Lettered

1934-35:  Lettered

1935-36:  Lettered

Brother of Bob Allen ('41), son of Phog Allen ('07), nephew of Harry Allen ('04)

Link to his Assistant Coach site

Of all the Allen children, he (Mitt) was the most like his father as a youth -- untamed and reckless.  Mitt was a smoker, drinker and fighter.  Bob Allen remembers the night his brother came home after a hard night and was ordered to the basement by Phog, who pulled on boxing gloves.  Three blows and Mitt was done.  Eventually, the family decided it was best for Mitt to leave and he enrolled at Iowa State, where he lived with coach Louis Menze, Phog's friend and star athlete at Central Missouri.

Mitt transferred to Kansas after a year and became a fine basketball player from 1934-36, although it would be a few more years before the run-ins would end.  EventuallyMitt, like his father did decades earlier, mellowed as he matured.  He became a successful Lawrence attorney, representing his father on occasion.
Source: Phog, p.94.