Students Find 'Pot' Here, Too
What's Inside?
Fluoridation lecture draws strong comment, p. 12. . . Jayhawk Fall Festival starts, p. 12.
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76th Year, No. 44
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Weather
"The statesman throws his shoulders back, and straightens out his tie. And says, 'My friends, unless it rains, the weather will be dry.'" The U.S. Weather Bureau says Low 30, High 50.
Thursday, November 18, 1965
Coach Phog Allen's 80 Years Encompass Era in Athletics
The father of basketball coaching is 80 years old today.
By Barbara Phillips
Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, Lawrence osteopathic surgeon, retired KU basketball coach and professor emeritus of physical education, is one of the best-known men in the sport although he retired in 1956 from active coaching.
Wade R. Stin-
Wade R. Stinson, director of athletics at KU, sums up many Kansan's attitudes toward Dr. Allen.
"I feel that he is the greatest basketball coach that ever lived. He is one of the immortals in basketball history," Stinson said.
ALLEN, KU coach for 39 years,began his basketball career
PHOG ALLEN . . .
famous KU name
in 1902 when he met Dr. James A. Naismith originator of basketball and KU coach. He entered KU in 1904 and lettered in basketball in 1905, 1906, and 1907.
While playing for Kansas, Dr. Allen set a basketball scoring record of 26 points for a single game in 1906, which stood until 1939.
He managed the Kansas City Athletic Club basketball team and played guard. His team toured the United States as the world basketball champions.
Dr. Allen's first coaching job at KU was a success. His 1908 Kansas team won the championship title. In 1909, he coached Baker University, Haskell Institute and the Kansas basketball teams simultaneously. In that year, Baker's record was 22-2. Haskell's was 19-5, and Kansas won the championship.
He became director of athletics at Kansas in 1919 and in 1920 he coached the Kansas football team.
In 1923 when the Kansas Relays were founded by Dr. Allen, dressing rooms were added to the stadium project. The stadium was completed in 1927 as the first completed stadium west of the Mississippi River.
DR. ALLEN is the originator of the zone elastic defense. He initiated the National Basketball Coaches Association and is a past president of the association; has been a member of the National Rules body for 13 years; backed the streamlined backboard, and along with Dr. Naismith placed basketball on the Olympic program in 1936 after trying unsuccessfully in 1932. Dr. Allen was chairman of the Olympic committee in 1936. In 1940 the NCAA basketball tournament, another Allen project, was successfully started.
He has written many articles on basketball for various magazines, and is the author of three books, "My Basketball Bible," "Better Basketball" and "Phog Allen's Sports Stories," which consists of yarns and anecdotes concerning many of the famous figures in sports and especially his former cage players at Kansas.
IN 1949, Dr. Allen was named to the Helms Foundation College Basketball Hall of Fame; he was named Basketball Man of the Year in 1950, and in 1951 he was selected to coach the West All-Star Team.
One of the first college coaches to speak out strongly against professionalism in college basketball, Dr. Allen caused quite a stir when he gave the names of gamblers operating in the college market.
The origin of his nickname is explained in a Feb. 17, 1937, article in the Kansan:
"DID YOU ever wonder where Doctor Allen got the nick-name, 'Phog'? The nickname has come about through a process of evolution. According to Coach Allen's own story he acquired the 'handle' when he was refereeing baseball games in the days of yore.
"In those days Coach Allen had a voice which more or less reminded the listener of a fog-horn when he put it to its fullest use. It was not long before he was nicknamed 'Fog' Allen.
"Later some particular sportswriter for the Kansan decided he liked it better spelled 'Phog.'
Africans to Picket KC British Consul
A plea to Great Britain to take immediate steps against Ian Smith's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Rhodesia is planned by the KU African Students Club in a demonstration Friday afternoon at the British Consulate in Kansas City.
The club opposes Smith's government because it has vowed to uphold the supremacy of 250,000 whites over the nation's four million Negroes. Smith has imprisoned several key leaders of the Negro Nationalist Party, and has outlawed all political parties.
The students plan the action in conjunction with similar demonstrations by Africans around the world. Two days ago a large group of African students started the protests with mass demonstrations in London.
A LETTER will be sent to Great Britain's Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, by the African Student's Club through the Consulate. The letter will ask Wilson to use whatever measures are necessary to bring an end to Smith's regime. The letter asks Great Britain to continue her present stand on the declaration, and voices support for more stringent action in Rhodesia to correct the situation.
Students from K-State and the University of Missouri at Kansas City are expected to join the demonstration in support of the two KU organizations.
The demonstrators will assemble at 2:30 p.m. a block from the consulate and walk to it en masse. Ebena Kawadza, Rhodesia graduate student and president of the
African Students Club, will enter the Consulate building and deliver the letter personally to the consul. He will then rejoin the group who will continue their march for one block and then disband.
Furnace Hosts Rhodesian Meet
An open discussion of the Rhodesian crisis is being sponsored Saturday night at the Firey Furnace, a basement coffeehouse at 1116 Louisiana.
"We hope that persons with both pro and con feelings about Ian Smith's government will come," R. J. Smith, West Plains, Mo., senior, said. "We know there are KU students with intense feelings on this issue, and we hope to give them a chance to express those feelings."
Smith is director of the coffee house.
Henry Wallace Dies
DANBURY, Conn.—(UPI)—Henry A. Wallace, former vicepresident of the United States in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, died today in Danbury Hospital. He was 77 years old.
For 15 years, Wallace was one of the most controversial figures in American political life, beloved by New Deal proponents of social welfare for the common man and berated by economic conservatives.
He served Roosevelt as secretary of agriculture from 1933 to 1940, was elected vice-president in 1941, and was Harry S. Truman's secretary of commerce in 1945-46. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency on the Progressive ticket in 1948.
Have Goal Will Travel
Brier Aims at Political Life
By Stephen Russell
Politics is more than just a student activity to All Student Council vice-chairman Bill Brier, Overland Park senior. To him it's a career.
Brier, who will retire from the council when his term of office expires in two weeks, is a prelaw student majoring in political science. He has been a member of the council for two terms and has been active in KU's student government throughout his college career.
"I feel the experience and confidence I have gained in student government has been valuable preparation for a political career," Brier said.
ELECTED TO THE ASC vicechairmanship last spring, Brier said the office has two functions as stated in the ASC constitution. He takes over the duties of the ASC chairman in case of his absence and he serves as chairman to the ASC Committee on Committees.
As committee chairman, Brier doesn't have a vote, however, he is solely responsible for doing the necessary research on all legislation that the committee considers.
ONE TECHNIQUE, which Brier has introduced and feels is particularly helpful in carrying out his investigation, is to meet once a week with Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe to discuss any legislation being considered.
"In this way I not only obtain the administration's point of view, but also receive assistance in the way of recommendations and suggestions from the Chancellor." Brier said.
Brier feels his most important job as ASC Vice-chairman is his duty to assist the council's chairman and keep him informed of
any problems before the council.
any problems before the council. In addition to his position as vice-chairman, Brier is serving this semester as a co-chairman of the ASC Elections Committee. This made him responsible for supervising the recent ASC fall living district elections, which included everything from setting up the polls to counting the ballots. He estimated that he spent approximately 150 hours over a five-week period setting up, and directing the election.
Brier said he feels KU's student government is the best organized he has seen "I have failed to see, in the two Big Eight Student Government Conferences and in the Conferences on Higher Education in Kansas that I have attended, any student government from another university, that comes close to ours or enjoys the cooperation and freedom that the administration here offers."
BILL BRIER . . . busy man on the ASC