Forrest "Phog" Allen - Kansas Jayhawks - Autographed / Signed 1952 Letter PSADNA

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This is a Forrest "Phog" Allen personally written and signed letter from 1952. Letter talks about an appearance by Allen at a Lions Club function. Letter is dated Dec 11, 1952 and the Jayhawks played and beat Tulane in New Orleans the night before. Phog Allen is a legend in the history of basketball and the Kansas Jayhawks. Condition of item is Ex. This is has been authenticated by PSA/DNA authentication.
Forrest "Phog" Allen - Kansas Jayhawks - Autographed / Signed 1952 Letter PSADNA
Forrest "Phog" Allen - Kansas Jayhawks - Autographed / Signed 1952 Letter PSADNA
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This is a Forrest "Phog" Allen personally written and signed letter from 1952. Letter talks about an appearance by Allen at a Lions Club function. Letter is dated Dec 11, 1952 and the Jayhawks played and beat Tulane in New Orleans the night before. Phog Allen is a legend in the history of basketball and the Kansas Jayhawks. Condition of item is Ex. This is has been authenticated by PSA/DNA authentication.
Forrest Clare "Phog" Allen
(November 18, 1885 – September 16, 1974) was an American
basketball
coach. Known as the "Father of Basketball Coaching,"
[1]
he served as the head basketball coach at
Baker University
(1905–1908), the
University of Kansas
(1907–1909, 1919–1956), Haskell Institute—now
Haskell Indian Nations University
(1908–1909), and Warrensburg Teachers College—now the
University of Central Missouri
(1912–1919), compiling a career
college basketball
record of 746–264. In his 39 seasons at the helm of the
Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball
program, his teams won 24 conference championships and three national titles.
[
citation needed
]
The
Helms Athletic Foundation
retroactively recognized Allen's
1921–22
and
1922–23
Kansas teams as national champions. Allen's
1951–52 squad
won the
1952 NCAA tournament
and his Jayhawks were runners-up in the NCAA Tournament in
1940
and
1953
. His 590 wins are the most of any coach in the history of the storied Kansas basketball program.
[
citation needed
]
Allen attended the University of Kansas, having already acquired the nickname "Phog" for the distinctive foghorn voice he had as a baseball umpire.
[2]
He lettered in baseball and basketball, the latter under
James Naismith
, the inventor of the game. Allen served as the head football coach at Warrensburg Teachers College from 1912 to 1917 and at Kansas for one season in 1920, amassing a career
college football
record of 34–19–3. He also coached baseball at Kansas for two seasons, in 1941 and 1942, tallying a mark of 6–17–1, and was the university's
athletic director
from 1919 to 1937.
[
citation needed
]
Allen was inducted into the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
with the inaugural class of 1959. The home basketball arena at the University of Kansas,
Allen Fieldhouse
, was named in his honor when it opened in 1955. His final season at Kansas was the first full season the Jayhawks played at Allen Fieldhouse.
[
citation needed
]
In addition to coaching basketball,
baseball
, and
American football
, he was a college athletics administrator and
osteopathic physician
.
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