# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phog-allen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:42:13.155Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phog-allen"
name: "Phog Allen"
slug: "phog-allen"
description: "Forrest Clare \"Phog\" Allen was an American basketball coach and physician. Known as the \"Father of Basketball Coaching,\" he served as the head basketball coach at Baker University (1905–1908), the University of Kansas, 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 head coaching record of 746–264. In his 39 seasons at the helm of the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball program, his teams won 24 conference championships and three national titles."
tagline: "American football and basketball coach (1885–1974)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/Phog_Allen.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1885-11-18"
deathDate: "1974-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.019013333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "福格·艾伦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فوج الين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phog_Allen"
    title: "Phog Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phog_Allen"
    title: "Phog Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phog_Allen"
    title: "Phog Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phog_Allen"
    title: "Phog Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phog_Allen"
    title: "Phog Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%92_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9F"
    title: "פוג אלן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phog_Allen"
    title: "Phog Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phog_Allen"
    title: "Phog Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2088566"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump