McLendon inducted into Naismith HOF - again

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HawkErrant
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b82, g84 Lift the chorus...

8 years 3 weeks ago #7956 by HawkErrant

Originally inducted as a Contributor, he is now in as a Coach as well.
And about time, too, for the first college coach at any level to ever to win 3 NCs in a row (NAIA) back in the 1950s.
KUAD: John McLendon Elected to Basketball Hall of Fame for Second Time
The family and John and his mentor Doc Naismith are all smiling ear to ear...

ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"

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c'85 Towering toward the Blue

8 years 3 weeks ago #7958 by konza63

Yea, verily!

Congrats to the McLendon family!

“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”

1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.

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