Inductees
Forrest “Phog” Allen
November 18, 1885—September 16, 1974
"It is good pedagogy to teach the men to shoot for a direct looping hit into the basket." - "Phog" Allen on the method for teaching correct arch in shooting
Forrest C. “Phog” Allen was a basketball legend in his incredible 39 years at the University of Kansas, winning 771 games. Phog was born in Jamestown, Missouri in 1885. Allen had a remarkable record in which all but the first 10 years of coaching were spent at the University of Kansas.
He won 31 conference titles, living up with leather lungs to his abbreviated “foghorn” that came out more glamorously as “Phog”. Phog screamed loudest when he was forced to retire at the mandatory age of 70. He lived until 88, long after KU’s new field house had been named for him.