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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1949
Coach Allen Is On Road Back Up
Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, 64-year-old dean of American basketball coaches, has launched his thirty-third Kansas basketball season.
Starting two years ago to rebuild a team which had harbored two double All-Americans in Charlie Black and Ray Evans, also an All-American on the gridiron, the perennial coaching wizard still will be climbing the comeback trail this season.
Dr. Allen is all smiles these days and he has a right to be. Freshman coach Dick Harp, 31-year-old former Jayhawker cage great, passed along to him this year one of the best freshman squads in Kansas cage history.
This year's sophomore crop probably owns more physical qualifications than any sophomore group in the country. This crew will combine with holdovers to give the Jayhawkers their tallest club of all time. With experience, these sophomores should give Coach Allen some of the finest material he has ever had to work with.
During his long tenure at Kansas, Allen's clubs have won 474 games against 168 losses for the best long-time record in the country. His clubs have won or shared 20 championships.
Dr. Allen's 32 years of coaching basketball at Kansas has brought much fame to himself, his teams, and to the University.
In Dr. Allen's 42-year all-time coaching record, his teams have won 652 games while dropping only 181 in winning a total of 27 titles. No where in the athletic world can these remarkable long-time records be duplicated nor are they likely to be in the near future.
When asked to pick his top Kansas team, Coach Allen said, "It is difficult to pick out the outstanding team among my '23, '36, '43 and '46 undefeated conference clubs, but the 1940 team can tackle it. The ability to overcome treasured odds did aid vancing to the N.C.A.A. finals." Indiana University defeated Kansas in the finals, 60 to 42.
This club consisted of forwards Dom Ebling and Howard Engle-lander, the Milkman's son, Bob and guards Ralph Milken and Diek Harp, now Allen's assistant.
"In achieving national fame, this team owned no 'big men' yet had the necessary team work and qualifications to rank as one of the greatest K.U. teams of all-time," Dr. Allen added.
Kansas downed Missouri in their final conference game 42 to 40 to gain a first place tie with Missouri and Oklahoma. In a play-off, Oklahoma downed Missouri while Kansas eliminated Oklahoma 45 to 39, followed by a thrilling 45 to 43 overtime win over Oklahoma A. and M. to gain a spot in the N.C.A. A. play-offs.
After downing Rice, Engleman's now famous corner shot, with only a few seconds remaining, enabled the Jayhawkers to down favored Southern California 42 and荣誉的 finals. Harp was a standout in this game with his terrific defensive play.
With Allen's name at the top of the list of the coaches' hall of fame, the University of Kansas holds a high position in all-time rankings of the Helm's Athletic Foundation. Dr. Allen's players hold fourteen
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positions on the all-American teams selected by the foundation for the past 30 years. This total is the same number of spots held by Purdue and Notre Dame, and second only to the Kentucky Wildcats.
The Jayhawkers are only one behind Kentucky in two other departments, with two national championship teams, and two men named player of the year.
Coach Allen's clubs were rated national champs in both 1922 and 1923, winning 33 of 36 games in those two years. In winning 20 championships, he will lead all college team third of the four clubs ever to finish the conference race undefeated.
Dr. Allen's efforts toward such innovations as rotation of the center jump, fan-shaped backboards, and the 12-foot basket are nationally famous. One of his accomplishments was an almost perfect in hiding basketball its first show in the 1986 Olympic games in Berlin.
Allen has not limited himself to building title winners but has made many other contributions to the game through research. He was one of the founders of the National Basketball Coaches' association and for many years served on the National Rules committee. He was instrumental in founding the N.C.A.A. tournament, the first of which was held in 1938.
Several of Dr. Allen's former cagers are now highly regarded basketball coaches in college ranks. Most prominent among these are Adolph Rupp, basketball mastermind at Kentucky; Forrest
"Frosty" Cox, Colorado; Dutch Lonborg, Northwestern; and John Bunn, Springfield College, Springfield, Mass., a team the Jayhawkers play on Dec. 23 as the final game of a 4-game eastern swing.
Two years ago Phog turned out his third book entitled "Phog Allen's Sports Stories", a stream of yarns and anecdotes concerning many of the famous figures in sports and especially his former cage players at Kansas. His first two volumes, "My Basketball Bible" and "Better Basketball" both have been widely used as cage textbooks everywhere.
Blind Dog Has Own 'Seeing Eye' Dog
Seattle, Wash. —(U.P.)— A blind dog's "Seeing Eye" is back home again.
Butch, a brown boxer owned by Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Thomason, disappeared two weeks ago. He was the eyes of the Thomason's other dog, who was blinded two years ago when struck by a hit-and-run driver.
A neighbor reported seeing a boy leading the boxer away on a wire leash. A fisherman returned Butch, said the boy had given it to him.
Without Butch, Chick had been confined to her hearth-rug in the Thomason's home, unable to cope with the dangers of a darkened world.
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