RICHMOND, Va. (Sept. 25) - A former teammate of Sen. George Allen during his years as a University of Virginia football player said Allen frequently used a racial epithet to refer to black people. Allen vehemently denied the allegation in an Associated Press interview Monday.
Dr. Ken Shelton, now a radiologist in Hendersonville, N.C., made the claims in an article published Sunday in the online magazine Salon.com, and in an AP interview Sunday night.
Shelton said Allen used the N-word only around white teammates when they played for the Cavaliers in the early 1970s. Allen was a quarterback; Shelton a tight end and wide receiver.
During a deer hunt with Allen in the early 1970s, Shelton said, Allen asked whether black families lived in the area and stuffed the severed head of a female deer into a black household's oversized mail box.
"George insisted on taking the severed head, and I was a little shocked by that," Shelton said.
"This was just after the movie "The Godfather" came out with the severed horse's head in the bed," Shelton told the AP.




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