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Phog Allen the father of basketball coaching

Phog Allen the father of basketball coaching

Kerkhoff, Blair, 1959-
Restricted EAudiobook (NNELS) 2012

Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen overcame the argument of James Naismith, inventor of the game, that basketball didn't need a coach. Allen served (for a while under Naismith) at the University of Kansas as coach from 1907 to 1909 and from 1919 to 1956, and as athletic director from 1919 to 1937 also heading the Physical Education Department for a time. Kansas City Star sportswriter Kerkhoff has written an evenhanded yet generally laudatory story of a h...

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Allen, Forrest C., 1885-1974
Basketball coaches United States
Basketball coaches United States Biography
University of Kansas
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Online resource : 2DAISY 2.02
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Digital master
Restricted to use by people with a documented print impairment
DAISY 2.02 audio only
Indianapolis, IN : Masters Press, 1996
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1570281114
Mode of access: World wide web
(Kansas Audio Reader Network, Lawrence, KS, recording agency.)
LCCN:
96034944
Control Number:
981465
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BC Libraries Cooperative. National Network for Equitable Library Service
Palmerter, Marlee, narrator
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