Allen Especially Fitted —
To Further Naismith Move

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This old Canadian expressio

“Why, you bloody beggar, you can’t coach basketball.”?

n was the answer first given a

youth by the name of Forrest C, Allen by Dr. James A. Naismith,
inventor of the game of basketball, when Allen approached him |

concerning the possibility of his
basketball team back in 1908.

coaching the Baker university

Doctor Naismith didn’t believe

‘that the game needed such impedimentia as coaches,

But he was wrong, as he ad-*
mitted some three decades later
after he had seen the game be-
come the most popular and. wide-
Spread _ indoor
sports and with
this same youth,
since associated:
closely with th E
game’s founder
proving one o
the leaders in de
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as a coach, later §
became _associ- &
ated with Doc- :
tor Naismith,
where Allen
gained nation-
' Wide fame as basketball coach and
Naismith spent the last twenty
years of his life as a physical edu-
cation professor. And it is Allen
‘who now is in the forefront of those
seeking to bring about the erection
of a suitable memorial to Doctor
| Naismith in this, ‘the fiftieth anni-
| versary year of the founding of
basketball.

Appropriately enough, Doctor Al-
len will be in Kansas City Kansas

 

 

~ Phog Allen

 

{| anniversary celebration.

 

the night of November 4 to open
the better basketball clinic spon-
sored by the Kansas City Kansas
YMCA as its part of the fiffieth
Thru. his
part in thig clinic, Allen will fur-
ther assist in developing more and
better basketball players, among
the youth of the country. —

At the free clinic here, Allen will
explain the same fundamentals of.
play and training which he has
used in producing twenty-three
championship teams in the thirty
years he has been a coach, and
players he has coached at K, U.
demonstrate these fundamentals.

Officials of the YMCA stressed
the point that the clinic will be free
to all, but that those wishing to at-
tend must obtain tickets, High
school squads of this section are
especially invited, and coaches
have been invited to make reserva-
tions for their players.

One of these, Coach Ashley EIbl
of Wyandotte, has obtained reser-
vations for fifty of his players.
Elbl also will take part in the series
of clinics at the YMCA, being
scheduled to conduct the second
night’s session on November 11.

Other local squads also will at-
tend, altho they have not. made
specific reservations as yet.