HE ATCHISON DAILY GLOB)

DINNER TONIGHT.
FOR BOY CAGERS|

“Phog” Allen, K. U. Coach and
‘Noted Basketball Authority,
é Poaceae Speaker

About 140 boys are expected to at-}
tend the first annual Y.;M. C. A.-
Church basketball banquet for team
players which will be held this evening

at the Methodist
church. Dre Fz .C.
“Phog” Allen, bas-
ketball coach and
director of — the|
physical education |
department at the)

4 University of Kan-
sas, will be the prin-
cipal. speaker.

Dr. Allen is the
dean of basketball!
coaches in the Uni-

f ted States. He has

won 22 conference:

' championships in!

2 26 years of basket-

pall coaching and was director of the
American basketball team entered in
the last Olympics at Berlin. ae

In 1905 Dr. Allen was playing’ basket-
ball with the Kansas City Athletic club
when it won three games. straight
from the Buffalo Germans, then tour- |
ing the country as “world’s cham-
pions.” In a game at Independence, |
Mo., in 1903, Dr. Allen first met, Dr.
James Naismith, inventor of the game
of basketball, and then coach at K.
U. The next year Allen entered the
university and in the season of..1908)
began coaching the Kansas team.
| .Dr. Allen was one of the organizers,
| and for two years president of the Na-
tional Association of Basketball Coach-
;es, and for 10 years has been a mem-|
‘ber of the National Basketball Rules
Body. He is chairman of the Olympic
committee in both of these organiza-
tions, and was largely instrumental in}:
obtaining for basketball recognition as}
/a contest sport for the 1936 Olympics at|:

 

| A great student of the principles of
|basketball, Dr. Allen has frequently, by
agreement with opponents, tried out}:
under playing conditions modifications
of the rules. He has written extensive-
ly for sports periodicals and in 1924
published his “Basketball Bible,” which {>
had a circulation of 14,000. 1
Outstanding pupils of Dr. Allen, who
are now coaches, include Louis Menze, |:
Iowa State; Arthur (Dutch) Lonborg,
Northwestern; Adolph Rupp, University |
jof Kentucky; John Bunn, Stanford
university, and Forrest (Frosty) Cox,
University of Colorado.