If you are a Kansas University Basketball fan, sports fan, especially basketball you will hear never heard before stories about “Phoggy” as Mark Allen called his grandpa. A quick bio about Phog:
Forrest Clare "Phog" Allen was an American basketball coach. Known as the "Father of Basketball Coaching," 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, with his teams winning 24 conference championships and three national titles.
Phog was also a legend in the field of treatment of athletic injuries and benefited a long list of high-profile performers. He also had a successful private osteopathic practice, and many he treated, the famous and otherwise, contended he had a "magic touch" for such ailments as bad backs, knees and ankles. He said he applied the same treatments to "civilians" as he did to his athletes.
His forceful, yet reasonable, disposition helped him become the driving force behind the acceptance of basketball as an official Olympic sport at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. Allen later worked as an assistant coach in the 1952 Summer Olympics,[7] helping to lead the United States to the gold medal in Helsinki, Finland.
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If you are a Kansas University Basketball fan, sports fan, especially basketball you will hear never heard before stories about “Phoggy” as Mark Allen called his grandpa. A quick bio about Phog:
Forrest Clare "Phog" Allen was an American basketball coach. Known as the "Father of Basketball Coaching," 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, with his teams winning 24 conference championships and three national titles.
Phog was also a legend in the field of treatment of athletic injuries and benefited a long list of high-profile performers. He also had a successful private osteopathic practice, and many he treated, the famous and otherwise, contended he had a "magic touch" for such ailments as bad backs, knees and ankles. He said he applied the same treatments to "civilians" as he did to his athletes.
His forceful, yet reasonable, disposition helped him become the driving force behind the acceptance of basketball as an official Olympic sport at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. Allen later worked as an assistant coach in the 1952 Summer Olympics,[7] helping to lead the United States to the gold medal in Helsinki, Finland.
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