ALLEN IS NO. 1 1 COAC

_|HELMS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION
REPORT HONORS K. U. MENTOR.

The Tutor of Champion Jayhawks

Designated as ‘‘Greatest of All

Time’’—Record Most Out-
standing’in History.

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(By The Star’s Own Service.)

LAWRENCE, Kas., Feb. 27—Dr.
Forrest C. Allen, whose University |
of Kansas Jayhawkers have won)
the Big Six championship again,
has been named America’s No. 1
basketball coach by the Helms Ath-
letic Foundation.

Dr. Allen was designated as “the
greatest basketball coach of all
time,” in the collegiate basketball
record prepared and issued last week
by the Helms Foundation of Los
Angeles, which contacted coaches
and basketball authorities through-
out the nation in quest of recom-
mendations for “greatest coach”
honors. .

A KANSAN BY ADOPTION,

According to the Helms survey,
conducted in 1942, the 57-year-old
K. U. court mentor is credited with
the most outstanding coaching rec-
ord in the history of the game,

In heralding Allen as the “dean
of American basketball coaches,”
the Helms staff of research men
summarized the coaching achieve-|
ments of the K. U. personality, who,
although born in Independence, Mo..,
is recognized as an “adopted son”
of the Sunflower state in which he
has coached athletics twenty-five
years,

As evidence of his remarkable suc-
cess, the Helms report first men-
tioned the two Missouri Valley
championships. captured by Allen-|
_|coached teams at Kansas in 1908-09,

before the native Missourian took:
over the athletic reins at Warrens-
burg State Teachers college in 1913,
where he won seven straight circuit
crowns before feturning to Mt.
Oread in 1920 as athletic director
Jand head basketball coach.