FRIDAY, MARCH 20,1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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The "Knute Rockne of Basketball," Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, is nearly completing his twenty-fifth year as head coach at the University and his thirty-second year in the coaching game as the N.C.A.A. playoffs are at hand.
The record of the dean of American basketball coaches now shows 25 conference championships in 32 years of coaching. Brilliant coach, author, organized and researcher, Doctor Allen has made many contributions to the advancement of the game.
His all-time winning percentage now stands at .8138 per cent with 551 victories and 126 defeats in 677 games. In 25 years at Kansas Allen has won 371 games and lost 112 out of 485 games for a percentage of .765.
In 1904 Allen entered the University of Kansas. During his college career, he lettered in basketball in 1905, 1906, and 1907, and in baseball in 1906 and 1907.
The following year, 1908, saw Allen off on the start of his coaching career, with a championship basketball team at KU. The next year he turned out
This concluded Allen's coaching efforts for three years while he pursued the study of medicine. In 1912 he became coach of all sports at Missouri State Teachers' College at Warrensburg and his service as a coach has been continuous since that time.
In the fall of 1919 he became director of athletics at the University of Kansas and before the basketball season was over was coaching that sport. In a short time he had put the Jayhawks back up in the championship bracket, a spot which they have been at or near ever since. In one stretch 1922 through 1927, Kansas basketball teams won six straight conference championships.
another title winner on Mount Oread. That same season Doctor Allen also was coaching the Haskell Indian team which won 19 of 24 games and the cage team of Baker University, 20 miles away, which won 22 out of 24 games after having an all-victorious season of 24 games under Allen the previous year.
Ralph Miller
Charlie Black
John Buescher
Ray Evans
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T. P. Hunter
Charlie Walker