Forrest Clare Allen was an American basketball and baseball player, coach of American football, basketball, and baseball, college athletics administrator, and osteopathic physician. He coached college basketball for 50 seasons, and compiled a 746–264 record, retiring with the all-time record for most coaching wins in college basketball history. Allen also created the National Association of Basketball Coaches, which went on to create the NCAA tournament.
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Forrest Clare Allen was an American basketball and baseball player, coach of American football, basketball, and baseball, college athletics administrator, and osteopathic physician. He coached college basketball for 50 seasons, and compiled a 746–264 record, retiring with the all-time record for most coaching wins in college basketball history. Allen was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame with the inaugural class of 1959. Allen’s 1951–52 squad won the 1952 NCAA Tournament and his Jayhawks were runners-up in the NCAA Tournament in 1940 and 1953.
The home basketball arena at the University of Kansas, Allen Fieldhouse, was named in his honor when it opened in 1955. Allen also created the National Association of Basketball Coaches, which went on to create the NCAA tournament. He was 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, helping to lead the United States to the gold medal in Helsinki, Finland.
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