Wednesday, February 7, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Former KU cage men winningest
Two of the winningest coaches in collegiate basketball history get together every five years at a reunion for the 1923 KU basketball team.
Forrest C. "Phog" Allen was the coach of that team, maybe the best in KU basketball history. During his coaching career, "Phog" compiled a record of 771 victories, surpassed only this year by Adolph Rupp one of the members of that team.
Rupp was only a substitute on the team which featured three All-Americans. All of the players came to KU to get an education with basketball only an outside activity, during a time when there was no recruiting and no scholarships.
Allen has never been worried about records. "I just tried to win for the boys," he said. As a coach, he tried to teach his players the drive and determination to succeed in later life.
When asked if the 1523 team was his greatest, Allen has often said, "Let's wait 15 years or so and see how successful they are later on, then maybe I can tell you. A coach is a success if he can develop a person to be successful in business and his later life."
Of Rupp, Allen said. "Adolph always had lots of intestinal fortitude—he would tackle anything. We have these 5-year reunions of the undefeated team of 1923. At one of them, Rupp told Paul Endacott, 'Let me hold the ball. I never got hold of it while I was playing.'" That ball was the Missouri "game ball" which gave them an undefended season, and Endacott was one of the three all-Americans on the team.
"Rupp had a great mind for the game," Allen said, "and has become an outstanding coach. I've always said he is the only Kansas hayshaker who can roll his R's like a Kentucky Colonel."
But to the colorful Allen, now an osteopath in practice here despite his 82 years, the big significance of the Rupp feat was not the number of victories. Long an advocate of "what the boys do later," his emphasis was on the fact that the 1923 team on which Rupp played as a sub had so many brilliant and successful men of like caliber.
Upon hearing that Rupp had surpassed his record, Allen said, "Bless his bones! If Rupp can count that high, he can have it. I'm glad he has gone ahead and done it. I've always said, 'Do not let the dead hand of the past lay hold upon the future.' Losing that record doesn't bother me a bit. I never cared about records, anyway. I just tried to win them one at a time."
Track meet changed
Kansas 'indoor dual track meet with Oklahoma State, Feb. 15, in Allen Field House, has been expanded to a triangular with the addition of Colorado, Bob Timmons. KU track coach has announced.
This will be the Jayhawkers' only dual or triangular competition with Big Eight rivals during the entire indoor and outdoor seasons.
Stinson says track feud not over
Despite recent improvements, the long-tanding feud between the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is by no means over. Wade Stinson, University of Kansas athletic director, warned Tuesday.
Stinson's statement followed the AAU's announcement Saturday that it would not disqualify from international competition any track or field athletes participating in Friday's U.S. Track and Field Federation meet in New York's Madison Square Garden. Two weeks ago an impressive list
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"Actually, the only right the AAU has is to determine whether a man is a bona fide amateur eligible for international competition," Stinson said. "The AAU has no coaches and no facilities and yet they think they have the right to tell a young athlete where he can run and where he cannot run."
Although Vice-President Hubert Humphrey has appointed an arbitration board to settle differences between the AAU and the NCAA, Stinson sees little hope for a quick settlement.
"This is a turrish ambiguous situation," he said. "It looks to me like nothing has been solved or will be. A decision will be even more difficult to reach because of the political aspects cf the conflict.
"The U.S. Track and Field Federation, a part of the NCAA, has said they want just one body to administer track and field sports. This means either the AAU and the NCAA will have to merge or one of them will have to be dissolved."
It was this same battle for authority that in 1965 denied to Jim Ryun the indoor half-mile record. The AAU refused to recognize the run because it was not made in an AAU sanctioned meet. Recently the AAU reversed its decision and recognized the record.
Pennington honored
Don Pennington, Prairie Village senior, has been named the Big Eight's "most outstanding swimmer" for 1967 by the league's swimming coaches.
Pemington received the award for his efforts in winning seven Big Eight Conference swimming titles and an all-European rating. He accounted for 63 individual points in the Big Eight tournament.
ning and setting records in the 500 freestyle (4:53.3), 400 individual medley (4:25.8), and the 1,650 freestyle (17:21.0), an event he won all three years.
Winner of the award for the 1963 season, too, this time Pennington was picked over Kansas State's Dick Rivera, Missouri's Mickey Varner and Iowa State's Bruce Lechler.
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