FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1942 Tonight's Game in Hoch Will Determine Nation’s T. Lop Basketball Coach Allen Must Win to Pass Iba ; in Won asd Lost Percentage Giranacy in the basketball? ‘coaching world! That’s what the game in Hoch auditorium tonight will mean for Coaches Forrest C. “Phog” Allen of Kansas: and Henry Payne Iba of Oklahoma A. and M. Not only will be game be a clash ‘between two great teams but it will be a meeting of the two greatest ‘coaches in American coltege basket- ball circles, deans of their profession. This season marks Iba’s fifteenth year as a basketball coach. His all- time record is astounding, his teams having 381 games, lost only 70, for a life-time. coaching percentage of 8162. ‘Allen Could Surpass Iba Coach Allen need take nary a back- ward step when considering this rec- ? ord for he has been in the coaching business for 32 years, himself, and has to show, for his efforts an all- time percentage of .8154, having won 548 games and lost only 124. Both of these records include games played this season. At. the start-of tonight’s game, Iba will have a better percentage of victories by -,0008 of one per cent. Allen, how- ‘ever, will take the upper hand if the UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS * ee OR: F C1 ALLEN Jayhawkers win tonight. In that case, his percentage would then read 8157 compared with Iba’s $141. This would turn the: tables’ and; -give Al- len an advantage of 0016 of a per cent. 3 g x The possibility always though, when Iba-coached teams are playing that his team will emerge victorious and if this should happen tonight then Iba will increase his percentage lead to .0025 of a per cent, 8167 to .8142. Eighth Year At A. & M. Henry Iba, who is now 38 years| old, attended high school at Easton, Mo., and later enrolled at Westmin- ster College, Fulton, Mo. He at- ‘| tended that school for three and one- half years, receiving his degree at Northwest Missouri Teachers Col- lege at Maryville in the summer of |, 1928. Leaving Westminster in the fall of 1927, Iba began his.career as a coach at Classen High School, Ok-. lahoma City.. He spent two years at Classen, four years at Northwest Missouri Teachers’ College, and one year at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo., before going to A. and M. in the summer of 1934. This winter he began his eighth season as head basketball coach of the Okla- homa Aggies. His teams have won ten confer- lence or state. championships out of the fourteen years he has coached. He has had two undefeated regular seejions, 31 games for 1929-30 at Northwest Missouri Teacher’s Col- exists,s kK ok ok HENRY IBA lege, and 24 games for 1931-32 at the same school. His greatest winning streak was 42 straight games from the start of the season of 1929-30 un- til the middle of the season, 1930-31. He gave Oklahoma A. & M. its greatest winning streak in history during the 1939-40 season when the Oklahoma Aggies ‘won 25 consecu- tive games. PAGE FIVE Re On the other hand, twenty-four of the past thirty-one coaching seasons, Doctor F. C. Allen has had champ- ionship teams. His Jayhawk quin-/ tets have won or tied for the Big Six. title nine times in the last eleven years. Only once in his thirty-two years as a coach has Allen had a team which lost more games than it won. That was in 1929 when every- thing imaginable in the way of mis- fortuntes happen to his Kansas squad. and they won oniy three games. “Phog’s” first season in the coach- ing game found him turning out an. undefeated team. That was in 1908 and he was coaching the Baker Uni- versity team, in addition to handling the coaching reins at K.U. While Kansas was winning 18 games and. losing 6, Allen’s Baker team came through witha clean slate, 24 wins without a defeat. That was too easy - so the following year he took a third team under his wing, the Haskell Indian Institute team. His record for all three teams was 74 victories and. only 10 defeats. Dr. Allen is now coaching his twenty-fifth K.U. team. Not only the game score is im- portant tonight, but the resuits of this coaching clash will be of great interest to every backer of these em-~ inent coaches.