Tuesday, September 17, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Former KU coach pioneered collegiate basketball
By JIM SHELDON
BY SIM SHELDON
Associate Sports Editor
In 1957, Forrest C. "Phiog" Allen retired after 39 years as the head basketball coach at the University of Kansas. His career was marked with almost every award and victory a basketball coach could possibly win.
Allen was elected to the Helms Foundation College Basketball Hall of Fame and the basketball Hall of Fame. He won more basketball games than any coach in collegiate history to that point, and was a champion and the founding of the Kansas Relays and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball tournament.
He also was instrumental in the acceptance of basketball by the Olympic
But there was more to Allen's life than awards and championships.
As a member of the NCAA Rules Committee for several years, Alen advocated several innovations. He supported a move in the 1950s to install fan-shaped backboards. As early as 1939, Alen supported raising the height of the basketball to 12
feet, something that is still being discussed today.
It was Allen's willingness to speak out on controversial issues that led to his involvement in several disputes with the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU).
He was named director of the 1936 Olympic basketball team, but he resigned the position before he was officially confirmed by the AAU.
Allen said, "I am sickened by the deceitful political harbinger of the group."
, "I am sickened by the political political barring of the group." Again it hung, 1855, Allen attacked the AU when it banned (lower Killings) West Santee from competition, because he allegedly accepted excessive financial allowances. The AAU later reversed its decision, but Allen still criticized the organization.
Staffing. Allen said, "They lay their eggs and let someone else do the hatching."
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"The evils growing from athletic contests are merely functional evils, they are not present in the system," he said. "They should system should not be abolished until some
individual who is striving to professionalize football and, if successful, run the greatest team in the world.
"A constant ideal of vigorous manhood, fair play, clean sport and love of institution, will do most to offset this grave menace to college sports," Allen said. "Clean athlete at all hazards be saved. Life without them would retrogress a quarter of a century."
Early in his career, Allen became concerned about the influence of gambling interests in collegiate athletics. In a radio broadcast in 1922, Allen expressed his concern.
Throughout his successful and sometimes controversial career, Allen kept a perspective on the importance of sports. When he was legislature was considering abolishing all intercollegiate athletics in 1923, Allen defended the importance of sport.
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In spite of his success as a coach, Allen never forgot the real nature of his patient.
"In all the years I've coached, I felt that pressure is the penalty one must pay
for his job. You've got to win. You might be well frank about it, "Allen said in 1957.
Alen's concern for his players didn't stop with graduation. In 1958 when he was asked to name his best team, Allen selected his top player as its success on and off the basketball court.
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