F. C. 'PHOG!' ALLEN

- By Harold Claassen -

Lavrence, Kas.,Jan.31,(AP) - Atop vindsvept Mount Oroad,
the consistent capital of college paskotvall, is a man who
sticks to horse and bugsy coaching tectics- and and makes
others like it.

Dr. Forrest © (Phog) Allen, although as modern and
intense ns a 1939 jittcbug, keeps his Kansas University
Jay-havwks winning titles with tricks used when Pa-and-Ma
danced the dreamy vweltzes of 1£05.

Successful? Twenty-two of his 26 teams have von
Conference championships. In 28 years his teams won Cae
sames and lost only 70. He is so good he overcame his tvro
sons! natural doubts of a parent's wisdon and made them
playing stars.

The advent of the 10-second rule and three-second law
and its subsequent modifiaction of the post play sent other
coaches to athletic apothecaries for nev "system builders. "

Not so the doctor of Mount Oread. His quintets kept
winning on the theory "a team never won a came in its 1ite-
its opponents lost it through crrors in fundamentals and
poor judsement."

The debonsir but vitrolic corch- he once labeled A.A.U.
officials "quadrennial oceanic hitch-hikers “ho chisel thoir
way" to the Olympic «ames - boasts of having only a Tov sot
plays and no distinguishing system,

"Adherence to the vrinciples of sound fundamentals
{ovelops confidence in the individual player. If he knows
the nass is coins to be good, he can be thinking of manouver-
ing along a path that is not necessarily rehearsed," is the
doctor's prescription.

"This ig not mechanical pley, this is 'versatile play.
It is the principle of education through play. *

At every game to assistents grade the players on
fundamentals - too nany bad prsses or wrony; pivots and the
player flunks out of the starting lincup.

Since climination of the center jump, the pivot ona
Kansas team is the "querterback" and is stationed in the
backcourt with the guards.

He ealls the signals and hendles the ball first on all
offensive drives. It's » snot where the player must heve a
ereat deal of native intelligence and be as adept with the
sphere as a bride with a can opener,

Allen is » sraduate of an Osteopathic college but a
master of psycholozy. None of his teams has ever taken the
floor but that it knew it ves the better acsregnation.

The coach himself isen't always thet collected and
serene. The excitement and vernth of the ouilding makes for
a dryness of his throat.

Game time finds him souirming on the bench, surrounded
by water bottles. A non-confrrence game is a six quirt affair.
But at a conference zeme he needs a bracer - taxes eight querts.