Dr. Forest C. (Phog) Allen

 

 

 

aR. FOREST C. (PHoc) ALLEN is America’s foremost basketball
pga coach. He is the “Knut Rockne” of the game. He is president of
Nae the National Association of Basketball Coaches. His book, “My

awk || Basketball Bible,” has reached the seventh edition and is considered
“the” authority on basketball coaching. He has written for many magazines
and his daily articles “Baskets and Backboards” appear in all Associated Press
newspapers. The “Phog” Allen Basketball, the “Phog” Allen Basketball Shoe,
the Allen-Lowe-Campbell basketball goal, and the Allen-Ransdell Score Book
are all his own inventions. Before coaching, Dr. Allen was well known as an
athlete, playing on the University of Kansas teams, and as a member and
manager of the 1905 Kansas City Atheltic Club team. This was the K. C. A. C.
team that won the championship of the world.

 

Dr. Allen is best known as a coach. He started coaching at the Uni-
versity of Kansas and Haskell Institute. Central Missouri State Teachers’ Col-
lege at Warrensburg claimed him as Director of Athletics until 1920 when he
accepted that office at his Alma Mater. For six consecutive years his teams
swept through to the title for the Missouri Valley Championship.

He is not only a builder of great teams but a builder of great players. Tustan
Ackerman, Alfred Peterson, John Wulf, Paul Endicott, Charles Black, basket-
ball coach at the University of Nebraska, Arthur Lonborg, basketball coach at
Iowa State College, are a few of the brilliant basketball stars of his making.

“Phog” Allen is in constant demand during the summer for the coaching
schools held throughout the country.

He is a forceful speaker with a winning personality. One man, after hearing
him talk, declared, “He appeals to all that is clean and fine in a man, but still he’s
all man.” His lectures will be animated with interesting stories from games,
carrying the inspiration of his twenty years’ experience with young men and
women. Not only boys and girls, but all interested in boys and girls will enjoy
hearing and knowing “Phog” Allen of Kansas. His lectures are:

The Way of the Game.

The Need to Dream and to Play.

The Plan of Sports and Games in American Life.
Life’s Great Challenge.

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