FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Tonight's Game in Hoch Will Determine Nation's Top Basketball Coach Allen Must Win to Pass Iba in Won and Lost Percentage
Supremacy 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 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 college basketball 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 backward step when considering this record 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.
DR, F. C. ALLEN
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, however, will take the upper hand if the
Jayhawkers win tonight. In that case, his percentage would then read .1157 compared with Iba's .8141. This would turn the tables and give Allen an advantage of .0016 of a percent.
TODAY'S SCHEDULE
Mathews Scores 14 As Pi K A's Triumph
5:30 Roch Chalk vs. John Moore
HENRY IBA
5:30 Newman II vs. Newman III
9:15 Thea Tou vs. Pflanzenwol
The possibility always exists, 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.
9:15 Theta 12d vs. Plugerville.
9:15 Alpha Chi Sigma vs. Sigma Chi
TOMORROW'S SCHEDULE
8:30 Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs. Sigma Nu
8:30 Khi Pappa Psi vs. Khi Sigma Sigma
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 until 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 consecutive games.
8:00 Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs. Sigma Nu
8:30 Phi Kappa Psi vs. Kappa Sigma
9:30 Phi Kappa Psi “B” vs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon “B”
9:30 Alpha Tau Omega “B” vs. Pi Kappa Alpha “B”
10:30 Phi Gamma Delta “C” vs. Phi Delta Theta “C”
10:30 Beta Theta Pi “C” vs. Sigma Chi “D”
11:30 Acacia vs. Sigma Chi
11:30 Tau Kappa Epsilon vs. Pfugerville
1:00 Blanks vs. Union Fountaineers
1:00 Phi Delta Theta vs. Pi Kappa Alpha
Henry Iba, who is now 38 years old, attended high school at Easton, Mo., and later enrolled at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo. He attended that school for three and one-half years, receiving his degree at Northwest Missouri Teachers College 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, Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma Aggies.
By DON KEOWN
The Pi Kappa, Alpha quintet last night had little trouble in crushing a badly outclassed Alph Kappa Psi five 46 to 11 in a Division II intramural basketball game.
Leading the Pi K.A. attack was Bill Mathews who collected seven field goals. The tall forward received able assistance from Vesper Sheeley and Joe Crawford with the scoring chores. Bill Atwell, fine center, played an $ ^{\circledcirc} $ outstanding rebounding game. [Bruce White]
The victors jumped into an early lead, increasing their margin to 30 to 4 at halftime. From then on they coasted in with their easy victory. Teke's Lose By 1 Point
His teams have won ten conference or state championships out of the fourteen years he has coached. He has had two undefeated regular sections, 31 games for 1929-30 at Northwest Missouri Teacher's Col-
A hard-pressed Acacia five managed to outlast Tau Kappa Epsilon to eke out a narrow 23 to 22 victory. A last quarter Teke rally fell short by a single point.
The Phi Gamma Delta "B" squared continued its winning ways, this time at the expense of the Tau Kappa Epsilon "B" outfit 33 to 18. The Phi Gam, sparked by Bo Joekel and
Oliver Bryan turned in another fine performance for the Teke's as he collected ten points. Ned Martin, guardout Acacia center, tallied five counters for the winners. Halftime sound the Teke's holding a 13 to 11 margin, but the men of Acacia took over the lead early in the third quarter.
A red-hot Beta Theta Pi "C" squad buried the Alpha Tau Omega "C" team 58 to 18 in the Division IV contest. John Shelton racked up an even 20 points for the Beta's, while Bill Jones contributed 13. Bill Wood led the A.T.O. scoring with eight points.
In a 9:15 contest tonight the fast Sigma Chi squad will try to put the handcuffs on Harold Wright, Alpha Chi Sigma ace. In an interclub affair the tall Newman II club will tangle with the Newman III team at 5:30.
Bruce Whittenberger, built up a 12 to 8 lead at the end of the first half Parker was the Teke star.
Ten games are scheduled for play Saturday morning and afternoon. Feature attraction will be the clash of the up-and-coming Phi Delta Theta and Pi Kappa Alpha squads at 1 o'clock.
Shelton Tallies 20 Points
Boxscores:
Pi Kappa Alpha (46) g
Mathews, f 7
Crawford, f 3
Atwell, c 1
Engle, g 1
McCormick, g 3
Sheeley, g 5
Shreve, g 0
Totals 20
Alpha Kappa Psi (11) g
Lebsack, f 0
Hardin, f 1
Welter, c 2
Medlin, g 1
Pomeroy, g 1
Tau Kappa Epsilon “B” (18) g
Kane, f ... 2
Jaagel, f ... 2
On the other hand, twenty-four of the past thirty-one coaching seasons, Doctor F. C. Allen has had championship 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 everything imaginable in the way of mis-fortunes happen to his Kansas squad, and they won only three games.
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Davison, I.W.W. guard. Corbin's job of scoring then went to Marguerite Demint, forward, who scored nine points.
CORBIN HALL---contributed a field goal and a free throw.
Wells escaped her vigilant guard in the second half long enough to make three field goals. Demint scored one field goal and one free throw and Jone Cochran, guard, also
ft. Parker, c ... 4
Anthony, g ... 0
Mackie, g ... 1
Totals ... 9
2 Phi Gamma Delta “B” (33) g
Voelker, f ... 7
Shears, f ... 6
Hulett, c ... 6
Reynolds, c ... 6
Tharp, g ... 6
Whittenberger, g ... 6
Staker, g ... 6
Totals ... 6
0 Alpha Tau Omega “C” (18) g
Erickson, f ... 1
Nabb, f ... 0
Branson, f ... 0
Webster, c ... 0
Coulson, g ... 2
Wood, g ... 2
Lavonne Jacobson, Marge Rader and Martha Trate, all forwards, stacked up scores for the I.W.W. team by their outstanding play.
This was one of the clearest, fastest, and best-played games of the season, according to Miss Ruth Hoover, assistant professor of physical education.
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"Phog's" first season in the coaching game found him turning out an undefeated team. That was in 1968 and he was coaching the Baker University team, in addition to handling the coaching reins at KU. While Kansas was winning 18 games and losing 6. Allen's Baker team came through with a 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-fifth K.U.
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Asher, g ... 1 0
Totals ... 6 6
Beta Theta Pi "C" (58) g ft.
Shelton, f 9 2
Buehler, f 0 1
Miller, f 1 0
Welty, c 1 0
Jones, g 6 1
Walton, g 2 0
Kramer, g 6 0
Dunn, g 2 0
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Totals
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