Allen Especially Fitted 32-~
To Further Naismith Move

‘‘Why, you bloody beggar, you can’t coach basketball.”’
| This old Canadian expression 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 |
coneerning the possibility of his coaching the Baker university |
basketball team back in 1908. Doctor Naismith didn’t believe |
that the game needed such impedimentia as coaches,

But he was wrong,
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 the
game’s founder
proving one of
the leaders in de
veloping the
game to where i
today.

That youth
now — beginning
his fourth decade
as a coach, later
became associ
ated with Doc
tor Naismith,
|lwhere 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-
jlen will be in Kansas City Kansas

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the night of November 4 to open
the better basketball clinic spon- |
sored by the Kansas City Kansas
YMCA as its part of the fiftieth
anniversary celebration. Thru his
part in this 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 Elbl
of Wyandotte, has obtained reser-
vations for fifty of his players.
Elb] also will take part in the series
of clinics at the YMOA, 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.