Phog Allen biography
Phog Allen, byname of Forrest Clare Allen, (born Nov. 15, 1885, Jamesport, Mo., U.S.—died Sept. 16, 1974, Lawrence, Kan.), American school basketball coach who's thought to be the primary nice basketball coach. He was additionally instrumental in making basketball an Olympic sport.
From 1905 to 1907 on the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Allen performed for James Naismith, who invented basketball. Allen coached the crew throughout his remaining two years on campus (1907–09). After graduating he pursued a level in osteopathic medication and later gained a nationwide fame for his skillful remedy of athletic accidents. After stints as a baseball umpire (throughout which he earned his nickname due to his foghorn voice) and as a coach of all sports activities at Warrensburg Teacher’s College (now Central Missouri State University), Allen returned to the University of Kansas in 1920 as athletic director, soccer coach, and basketball coach.
Allen’s Kansas Jayhawk basketball groups of 1920–56 gained 771 video games and misplaced 233; his 1951–52 crew gained the championship of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. In 1936 the Helms Foundation retroactively awarded the 1922 and 1923 nationwide championships to Allen’s Jayhawks. His groups gained 24 Big Eight Conference championships (referred to as the Big Six Conference from 1929 to 1947 and now referred to as the Big 12). He retired because the winningest coach in school basketball.
Regarded because the “father of basketball coaching,” Allen performed a key function in establishing the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 1927 and developed the abilities of many profitable coaches, together with Adolph Rupp, Dutch Lonborg, and Dean Smith. He was instrumental in including basketball to the Olympic Games program in 1936, and in 1952 he coached the American crew that gained the Olympic gold medal in Helsinki. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959. The University of Kansas Jayhawks have performed basketball on the Forrest C. “Phog” Allen Fieldhouse since 1955.