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{{Short description|American football and basketball coach}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Phog Allen | alt = | image = Phog Allen.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|11|18}} | birth_place = [[Jamesport, Missouri]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|9|16|1885|11|18}} | death_place = [[Lawrence, Kansas]], U.S. | alma_mater = [[University of Kansas]]<br>[[Central College of Osteopathy]] ([[Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine|D.O.]]) | player_sport1 = Basketball | player_years2 = 1905β1907 | player_team2 = [[Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball|Kansas]] | player_sport3 = Baseball | player_years4 = 1906β1907 | player_team4 = [[Kansas Jayhawks baseball|Kansas]] | coach_sport1 = Basketball | coach_years2 = 1905β1908 | coach_team2 = [[Baker Wildcats men's basketball|Baker]] | coach_years3 = 1907β1909 | coach_team3 = [[Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball|Kansas]] | coach_years4 = 1908β1909 | coach_team4 = [[Haskell Indian Nations Fighting Indians men's basketball|Haskell]] | coach_years5 = 1912β1919 | coach_team5 = [[Central Missouri Mules basketball|Warrensburg Teachers]] | coach_years6 = 1919β1956 | coach_team6 = Kansas | coach_sport7 = Football | coach_years8 = 1912β1917 | coach_team8 = [[Central Missouri Mules football|Warrensburg Teachers]] | coach_years9 = 1920 | coach_team9 = [[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]] | coach_sport10 = Baseball | coach_years11 = 1941β1942 | coach_team11 = [[Kansas Jayhawks baseball|Kansas]] | admin_years1 = 1912β1919 | admin_team1 = [[Central Missouri Mules and Jennies|Warrensburg Teachers]] | admin_years2 = 1919β1937 | admin_team2 = [[Kansas Jayhawks|Kansas]] | overall_record = 34β19β3 (football)<br>746β264 (basketball)<br>6β17β1 (baseball) | bowl_record = | tournament_record = '''Basketball'''<br>10β3 ([[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|NCAA]]) | championships = '''Basketball'''<br>2 [[Helms Athletic Foundation]] national (1922, 1923)<br> [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|NCAA tournament]] ([[1952 NCAA basketball tournament|1952]])<br>2 [[Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association|MIAA]] (1913, 1914)<br>24 [[Big Eight Conference|MVIAA/Big 6/Big 7/Big 8]] (1908, 1909, 1922β1927, 1931β1934, 1936β1938, 1940β1943, 1946, 1950, 1952β1954)<br>'''Football'''<br>4 [[Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association|MIAA]] (1912β1915) | awards = | coaching_records = | BASKHOF_year = 1959 | CBBASKHOF_year = 2006 | BASKHOF_id = forrest-c-phog-allen | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Assistant for {{bk|USA}} }} {{Medal|Competition|[[Basketball at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}} {{Medal|Gold| [[1952 United States men's Olympic basketball team|1952 Helsinki]]| [[Assistant coach]]}} }} '''Forrest Clare''' "'''Phog'''" '''Allen''' (November 18, 1885 β September 16, 1974) was an American [[basketball]] coach and [[physician]]. Known as the "Father of Basketball Coaching,"<ref name=basketballhalloffame>[http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/forrest-c-phog-allen Basketball Hall of Fame bio] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831070304/http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/forrest-c-phog-allen |date=August 31, 2009 }}</ref> he served as the head basketball coach at [[Baker University]] (1905β1908), the [[University of Kansas]] (1907β1909, 1919β1956), Haskell Institute—now [[Haskell Indian Nations University]] (1908β1909), and Warrensburg Teachers College—now the [[University of Central Missouri]] (1912β1919), compiling a career [[college basketball]] head coaching record of 746β264. In his 39 seasons at the helm of the [[Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball]] program, his teams won 24 conference championships<ref>{{cite web |title=Phog Allen Profile |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/phog-allen-1.html |website=SportsReference.com}}</ref> and three national titles.<ref name="HOF">{{cite web |title=Phog Allen profile |url=https://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/phog-allen/ |website=HoopHall.com}}</ref> The [[Helms Athletic Foundation]] retroactively recognized Allen's [[1921β22 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team|1921β22]] and [[1922β23 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team|1922β23]] Kansas teams as national champions. Allen's [[1951β52 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team|1951β52 squad]] won the [[1952 NCAA basketball tournament|1952 NCAA tournament]] and his Jayhawks were runners-up in the NCAA Tournament in [[1940 NCAA basketball tournament|1940]] and [[1953 NCAA basketball tournament|1953]]. His 590 wins are the second most of any coach in the history of the storied Kansas basketball program. Allen attended the University of Kansas, having already acquired the nickname "Phog" for the distinctive foghorn voice he had as a baseball umpire. At KU, Allen was a member of [[Phi Kappa Psi]] fraternity. <ref>{{cite web|title=Phog's First Farewell|url=http://kuhistory.com/articles/phogs-first-farewell/|website=KU History}}</ref> 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]] head coaching record of 34β19β3. He also coached baseball at Kansas for two seasons, in 1941 and 1942, tallying a mark of 6β17β1, and was the university's [[athletic director]] from 1919 to 1937. Allen was inducted into the [[Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame]] with the inaugural class of 1959.<ref name="HOF" />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.
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