Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, internationally famed Kansas University sports personality recognized as the father of basketball coaching, died at his Lawrence home following a recent series of illnesses. He was 88. The noted osteopath had been KU basketball coach for 39 years and had compiled a coaching record of 591-219 for a percentage of .730. He was a longtime member of the Basketball Hall of Fame and had been a close personal friend of James Naismith who invented the game and who had coached and taught at KU before his death in 1939. Allen had retired from KU after the 1955-56 season and had helped recruit Philadelphia high school star Wilt Chamberlain to Mount Oread.
Tuition rates at KU for both resident and nonresident students were the fourth highest in the Big Eight Conference for 1974-75.
Enrollment in Lawrence School District 497 for the fall was down 48 pupils from the year before. The final figure for Lawrence was listed at 7,639.
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