TITLES NOTHING NEW,

In his uninterrupted tenure at K.'
U. of twenty-three years, Dr. Allen
gained national recognition for)
is strong defensive and high-stepping |
Offensive aggregations.” Since 1920,
Jayhawker teams have won five Mis--
ouri Valley titles, 1923-27, after tying |
for the crown in 1922. Since the|
formation of the Big Six conference '
in 1929, K. U. won six undisputed
loop championships and tied for top
laurels on four occasions,

In addition to these conference
feats, the Helms research study
emphasized the fact that Allen-
tutored cage crews of 1922 and again
in 1923 were chosen as the national
champions, and almost captured the
ititle again in 1936, when Utah State
snapped a 21-game winning streak in
‘the Olympic trials.

Also contained in the collegiate
basketball report were seven Kansas
players, who under Allen’s tutelage,
have been given positions on the all-
_|American basketball teams of the
Helms Athletic Foundation.

Ray Evans, a Kansas City, Kan-
sas, youth who made all-American|
_|football honors last fall, is the most |
recent addition to the list of “all-
time basketball greats of Kansas.”|
Evans was selected as guard on the |
1942 all-American team.

CITE PAUL ENDACOTT,

Other all-American choices by the|
Helms foundation are the following |
Jayhawk basketeers: Paul Endacott,
guard of 1922; Charles Black, guard |
of 1923-24; Tusten Ackerman, for-
ward of 1925; Gale Gordon, forward, |
and Albert Peterson, center, of 1926
jteams; Fred Pralle, guard of 1937-38, |
and Howard Engleman, sharpshoot- |
a forward of the 1941 Kansas out- |

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Endacott has also been awarded!
the distinction as one of the “ten|
greatest players of the Helms ali-,
time all-American selections.” In|
addition the Jayhawker guard, now
‘om | vice-president of the Phillips Petrol-
the,;eum company, was named as ths,