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TPHS Scholarship Fund 30th year award season has arrived Are you a TPHS college-bound senior with character, initiative and creativity, who maintains a 2.5 GPA and is engaged in school and/or community activities, including employment? If so, please apply for one of the many available TPHS Scholarship Fund (TPHSSF) one-time grants ranging from $500- $1,000. Some scholarships are designated for students with financial need or other specified donor guidelines. Applications for the 2017 TPHSSF scholarships will be available online beginning Friday, Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. at www.tphssf.org and close on Sunday, March 12 at midnight. Complete the online application, write one short essay and hit send to submit your application. After applications are reviewed, finalists are interviewed and recipients selected. All awards will be presented at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17. As TPHSSF celebrates 30 years of awarding scholarship grants to TPHS students, any contributions or tax deductible donations are welcome to support these deserving students. Please visit www.tphssf.org for more details or to make a contribution.
Book details life of influential basketball coach Phog Allen BY JOE TASH Forrest “Phog” Allen, a legendary basketball coach at the University of Kansas, was a man of contradictions - he is credited with guiding his sport into national prominence and recruiting such famed players as Wilt Chamberlain, but he also had a cantankerous side which led him to butt heads with many people throughout his career. Sports journalist Scott Morrow Johnson will talk about his new book, “PHOG - The Most Scott Influential Man in Morrow Basketball,” at an event set Johnson for 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18, at the Rancho Santa Fe Library, 17040 Avenida de Acacias. Refreshments will be served, Johnson will answer questions after his talk and signed copies of the book will be available for purchase. The event is sponsored by the Rancho Santa Fe Library Guild. The “family friendly” event is free and open to the public, said Susan Appleby, executive director of the library guild. The author’s parents, Fran and Bill Johnson, are Rancho Santa Fe residents and active in the community. Johnson lives in Seattle with his family, where he works part-time as a freelance sports writer, and also has recently embarked on a new career as a substance abuse counselor. Johnson, who has covered NFL football and college basketball during his
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The cover of Scott Morrow Johnson’s book “PHOG - The Most Influential Man in Basketball.” journalistic career, came upon Phog Allen’s story through his mother, who introduced him to Judy Allen Morris, the coach’s granddaughter. Johnson said in an interview that Morris had a lot of stories and memories about her grandfather, as well as a trove of letters and other documents, and was anxious to
have Phog Allen’s story told. Several writers had worked on Phog Allen biographies over the years, but had not seen the projects through to publication, said Johnson, and he became determined to get the story in print. Johnson’s book was published by the University of Nebraska Press in November, and is available on Amazon.com. In setting out to tell the story, Johnson said, he wanted to chronicle episodes in Phog Allen’s life that hadn’t been written about before, such as the sudden death of his 14-year-old son from a blood clot. “That was part of the challenge of the book. I wanted to tell his whole life story from birth to death and not leave anything out,” Johnson said. According to Johnson, Phog Allen played under James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, who also coached at Kansas. While Naismith envisioned basketball as a way for people to have fun and stay in shape, Phog Allen saw its potential as a spectator sport, and had a hand in major developments, such as rule changes, the establishment of the NCAA tournament, now popular as March Madness, and even working to get the sport into the Olympics. “He helped market and advance the sport for 50 years,” Johnson said, raising its profile, popularity and profitability. “I think he did more for (basketball) than anyone in the history of the game.” His got his nickname, Johnson said, because people thought his booming voice SEE BOOK, A24
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