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Anonymous
>>391490 Smoking weed is one thing. Paying "amateur" athletes is another.
>Recruits who visited the campus were led into [OU football coach Jim] Tatums office, where the coach was normally found sitting in his underwear, smoking a cigar. As the player took a seat across the desk, Tatum would open a deep desk drawer and say, feast your eyeballs on this, big fella. Mountains of large bills caused eyes to pop. The slush fund, which amounted to $125,000, had been raised during the war years
.During the season, players would receive twenty-five bucks for touchdowns, fifteen bucks for interceptions, and ten for fumble recoveries.
Jim Dent, The Undefeated
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