TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Allen Wins 500th Game At Kansas
Bv RAY SOLDAN
It's no longer news when Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen chalks up a basketball victory—he's been doing it on the average of 17 times a year for the past 41 years.
However, Monday's 58 to 56 conquest of Colorado was extra-special. It was Allen's 500th victory as head coach at the University of Kansas.
The dean of American basketball coaches is the second man in the 60-year history of the game to reach the half-century mark in victories at one school. Ed Diddle, the fiery coach of Western Kentucky State, passed the 500 goal a year ago, and posted No. 530 last Saturday. Diddle has spent all of his 20 years of coaching at Western Kentucky.
This however is about the only longevity record that the Jayhawk- headman doesn't hold. No one can even touch Allen in total victories, total games coached, or years coached.
Monday's win was the 680th of Allen's career which includes 34 seasons at K.U., seven at Warrensburg, two at Baker, and one at Haskell. Diddle is the good doctor's nearest rival in all-time victories—and Diddle's total is 150 fewer than Allen's.
The Western Kentucky mentor also provides Allen's closest competition in total games coached. Allen has wrestled with his water bottle through 880 college games—and that's a lot of water. Diddle, equally famous for his towel throwing, has lasted through 707 contests.
Nat Holman of C.C.N.Y., nine years Allen's junior in the coaching business, never-the-less is Phog's nearest rival in year's coached. Holman, whose "Cinderella Kids" have become the "Black Beavers" due to the recent game-throwing scandal, is currently in his 32nd year of coaching.
Only one other college coach, Fred Enke of Arizona, has registered more than 500 victories. Enke won his 508th game Saturday, but his career has been split between Louisville (Ky.) and Arizona, and he hasn't won 500 at one school.
Three coaches have topped the 400-victory mark—Hank Iba of Oklahoma A, and M., Adolph Rupp of Kentucky (a former pupil of Coach Allen), and Jack Friend of Washington State. And only 14 active coaches have even half as many games as Allen.
Members of the exclusive 300-victory club are (including games played Saturday, except for Allen's victory over Colorado):
Victory over Colorado
Coach Won Lost
Allen, Kansas 688 200
Diddle, W. Ky. St. 530 177
Enke, Ariz. 506 175
Iba, Okla. A. & M. 482 118
Rupp, Ky. 434 178
Friel, Wash. St. 420 236
Price, Calif. 397 262
Holman, C.C.N.Y. 394 140
Gill, Ore. St. 393 248
Miller, W. Tex. St. 379 123
Cody, Temple 363 201
Peterson, Utah 351 198
Cann, N.Y.U. 350 161
Anderson, B. G. 347 99
Carlson, Pitt 347 230
Hobson, Yale 341 180
mendous record by playing big schedules or easy opponents. Many schools schedule 30 or more games a season, and as a result a coach's victory total is greatly increased. However Kansas has averaged just 20 games a season under Coach Allen—winning about 15 of every 20.
Phog Allen hasn't built his tre-
During his 34 years at KU., Coach Allen 'has won 21 championships. He also won seven-straight titles at Warrensburg, giving him 28 championships in 41 years. It is certain that no one else has won as many league crowns, since only two men have coached more than 28 years.
Phog Allen began his long string of record-breaking performances in 1906, when, as a junior at KU, he scored 26 points in a single game. This stood as a Kansas basketball scoring record until 1939 when Howard Engleman set a new record with 27 points. Engleman's mark was successively bettered by Ralph Miller, Charlie Black, Gene Peterson, and Clyde Lovellet.
Now, 45 years after his first record-shattering performance, Phog Allen is still setting records and winning new honors. Later this year, he will coach the West Allstars in the annual East-West basketball classic.
Last year 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." He has developed 12 All-Americans at Kansas, Lovellette will be No. 13—only Kentucky has had more All-American performers than Kansas. Allen has had two squads which were named mythical national champions.
In 1908, the then just plain Forrest C. Allen got a letter from Baker university wanting to hire him as basketball coach. Dr. James Naismith, who originated the game of basketball at Springfield (Mass.) Y.M.C.A. college in 1891, but who
Year (Total) (Conference)
W. L. W. L.
1908 18 6 7 2*
1909 25 3 10 2*
1920 11 7 9 7*
1921 10 8 10 8*
1922 16 2 10 1*
1923 17 1 16 0*
1924 16 3 15 1*
1925 17 1 15 1*
1926 16 2 16 2*
1927 15 2 10 2*
1928 9 9 10 9*
1929 3 15 2 8*
1930 14 4 7 3*
1931 13 3 7 3*
1932 13 5 7 3*
1933 13 4 8 2*
1934 16 1 9 1*
1935 14 5 14 4*
1936 24 2 10 0*
1937 15 2 8 2*
1938 18 2 9 1*
1939 13 7 6 4*
1940 19 6 8 4*
1941 12 6 7 3*
1942 17 5 8 2*
1943 22 6 10 0*
1944 17 9 5 7*
1945 12 5 7 3*
1946 19 2 10 0*
1947 8 5 0 1*
1948 9 15 4 8*
1949 12 12 3 9*
1950 14 11 8 4*
1951 14 8 7 4*
Jack Stone led the well-balanced Kansas State offensive last night with 17 points. He also was the top
34-year total 500 186 294 107
(Female) (.753)
*Conference champion.*
Victory last night also qualified Kansas State to play Arizona, border conference champion, in the first round of the western N.C.A.A. play-off, March 21-24, in Kansas City.
Coach F. C. Allen's Record
K-State probably could get a bid to the national invitation tourney, but Big Seven rules forbid playing in anything but the N.C.A.A.
K-State Wins Big Seven Title, Fourth In AP Cage Poll
Manhattan, Kan., Feb. 27 (U.P.)-The Kansas State college Wildcats today held their third Big Seven conference championship in the last four years as a result of a blistering 74 to 48 triumph over Nebraska before 12,000 fans here Monday night.
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The victory gave K-State a 9-1-1 season record in the conference with only two games remaining on the schedule. For all games this season, K-State boasted a 19-3 mark.
K-State jumped off to an early four point lead before Nebraska scored and never was headed. The score was 37 to 27 at the half.
Kansas State repeated its 1947 and 1948 feats of winning both the Big Seven pre-season tournament and the conference championship. K-State is the only team ever to win the title undisputed after taking the pre-season tournament.
COACH F. C. "PHOG" ALLEN
rebounder and floor man of the game.
Bob Pierce of Nebraska was high for the losers with 13 points.
Monday's College Basketball Results
EAST
NYU 87, Notre Dame 72
Seton Hall 62, Rutgers 44
Boston college 59, Massachusetts
MIDWEST
EAST
Kansas U. 58, Colorado 56
Kansas State 74, Nebraska 48
Indiana 63, Iowa 53
Northwestern 84, Purdue 53
Michigan 52, Wisconsin 50
Minnesota 56, Michigan State 39
St. Louis 64, Detroit 50
Missouri 59, Iowa State 54
Drake 60, Creighton 50
SOUTH
Vanderbilt 69, Georgia 57
Bradley 51, Oklahoma A&M 50
Arizona 78, Texas Tech 66
Texas Christian 48, Arkansas 34
was at that time on the K.U. teaching staff, laughed at Allen when he showed him the letter.
"Why you can't coach basketball" Dr. Naismith said. "You just play it."
Never-the-less Phog Allen took the Baker job, and—let's let his record speak for itself!
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