Page 4 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Nov. 18, 1954
Dean of Basketball—
'Phog Will Celebrate 69th Birthday Today
By LETTY LEMON and LEE ANN URBAN
The man whose name is synonymous with KU and basketball will have 69 candles on his birthday cake today.
And, Forrest C. Allen, dubbed "Phog" because of his "foghorn refereeing at baseball games," will mark his 39th year as Jayhawker cage coach—two anniversaries in one.
But if Dr. James Naismith, inventor of basketball, had had his
anniver s a r y would not have occurred.
When "Phog" received a note from Baker university in 1907 asking h i m to coach basketball there. Dr. Naismith, teaching KYU time laughed at the bright young m a n, saying, "Why you can't
DR. FORREST C.
"PHOG" ALLEN
coach basketball, you just play it."
"Phog" has been proving him wrong ever since. Last year's record of 17 victories, four losses and the conference championship was only a "drop in the bucket." In 1951, when his Jayhawks beat Colorado 58 to 56, he became the second coach in history to win 500 contests at one school.
In 1952, Dr. Allen coached the team to the intercollegiate basketball championship. To prove it was no accident, the following year the team was runner-up. In all his years of coaching here, he has supervised only two losing teams.
He began setting scoring records at the University in 1906 by netting 26 points in a single game. That record stood until 1939, when one of his pupils, Howard Engleman, scored 27.
He has turned out 14 all-Americans.
Along with Dr. Naismith, Dr. Allen was responsible for the inclusion of basketball in the 1936 Olympic games at Berlin. He was chairman of the Olympic committee that same year.
In 1950 he was named basketball's man of the year by his fellow coaches for his "unselfish effort and contribution to the game over a long span of years."
But the University has shared in his enthusiasm and effort. In 1920, he organized a drive to raise money for improving the football stadium—then only two rows of brick-faced bleachers. He collected $660,000. He founded the Kansas Relays, and urged that dressing rooms be added to the stadium. He founded and named Sasnak, the organization for physical education majors.
In addition to his active participation elsewhere, he has written three books, "My Basketball Bible,"
Pairings for Big 7 Tourney Are Announced
Pairings for the annual Big Seven conference pre-season basketball tournament to be played in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium Dec. 27-30, have been announced.
Colorado and Oklahoma will open the four-night competition at 8 p.m. Dec. 27. In a second game that night, Nebraska will oppose Missouri. Those teams form the upper bracket of the draw.
The first round will be completed Dec. 28 with Kansas playing Iowa State and Kansas State engaging the guest team-California.
Winners in the first round will meet Dec. 29 in the semi-finals. The title game will be played Dec. 30, starting at 9:45 p.m.
None of the games will be televised.
Previous guest teams and winners:
Guest Winner
1946 Arkansas & SMU SMU
1947 Oklahoma A&M K-State
1948 Harvard Oklahoma
1949 Michigan Missouri
1950 Minnesota K-State
1951 Stanford Kansas
1952 Yale K-State
1953 Washington Kansas
Tickets will go on sale by mail Dec. 1. Prices are $1, $2, $3 for each of the four nights; $1 for afternoon games on Dec. 29-30, no seats reserved. Seat preference will be given to those ordering for all four nights. Ticket orders, accompanied by check, should be sent to the Municipal auditorium, Kansas City, Mo. Add 25 cents to total order for mailing fees.
'Phog' Blasts NCAA Policies
Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, KU basketball coach, and Ed "Moose" Krause, director of athletics at Notre Dame, yesterday made a two-pronged attack on policies of the National Collegiate Athletic association.
He is in constant demand as a speaker at University and alumni events.
"Better Basketball," and "Phog Allen's Sports Stories."
Rohde's Punting Average Will Be at Stake Saturday
Barring a couple of blocked kicks against Missouri Saturday in Columbia, Ted Rohde, lean Kansas halfback, will own a Jayhawk single-season punting mark in his sophomore hitch.
Record May Fall-
The Emerson, Neb., youth comes up to the finale with a 43.8 average on 29 boots. And he suffered one blocked punt. That is more than two yards beyond the current school record of 41.1 established by guard Dolph Simons on 32 punts in 1950. It also is good enough to top three other 40-yard booters within the Big Seven, Colorado's Carrol Hardy; Max Eydyston, Oklahoma; and Barney Alleman, Iowa State. Rohde trails only New Mexico's John Terpening in the major college NCAA race. The latter is moving at a terrific 45.6 gait on 35 kicks.
Rohde smashed the Jayhawks' single-game record twice in his three games, banging a 44.9 average against TCU, on eight tries, and pushing the ceiling to 52.2 with five kicks against Colorado. The former figure was held by fullback Bill Mace on a 44.4 mean against Oklahoma at Norman in 1949. Rohde also has been within whispering distance three times of Fred Harris' ancient tong punt standard of 76 yards, unwound in 1934 in the rain and mud against Nebraska here. Ted owns boots of 72, 73, and 74 this season.
Another statistical item of interest against the Tigers surrounds Bvd Laughlin, veteran Kansas City, Mo. fullback. By unreeling his second biggest day of the year, 84 yards, he can overtake Wade Stinson, halfback halfback of 1948-49-50, for fifth place on the all-time career rushing tables.
Laughlin, after a slow start, now is pacing Jayhawk ground-gainers with 231 net yards in 85whacks this season. This is considerably below his single-season best of 642 in 1951, but he had the tide running with him then as the Kansans were rolling to an 8-2 season.
Still, Laughlin's pace has been enough to vault him past two former aces, fullback Frank Pattee, and halfback Bob Brandeberry, into sixth on the all-time tables.
Bowling Results
Wednesday 4 p.m. league (Women's and league): Alpha Chi Omega, 22-6, and Sigma Kappa, 22-6, 1st place; Pi Beta Phi, 14-14, 3rd place; Woosettes, 12-16, 4th place.
Pi Beta Phi 2-2 tie with Alpha Chi Omega and Sigma Kappa 4-0 over Whoosettes.
Wednesday 8 p.m. league (Men's
league: Keglers, 25-7; Delta Upsilon,
20-12; Triangle, 18-14; Kappa H,
Kappa, 13-19; ASME, 10-18; Don
Henry, 10-18.
KHK 3-1 over Don Henry; Delta Upsilon 3-1 over Triangle, and Keglers 3-1 over ASME.
the outset since bagging the first two games in 1891 and 1892. On four different occasions the Jayhawks have enjoyed a 10-game spread. The last of these was in 1935 when Don Faurot's first Tiger eleven locked Kansas into a scoreless tie. Since that time, the Bengals have moved up with Faurot winning 11 against three losses and two ties, and his lieutenant, Chauncey Simpson, chalking a 2-1 edge during the war.
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