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Claude Allen (athlete)
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Claude Arthur Allen (April 29, 1885, in Olean, New York – January 18, 1979, in Roselle, New Jersey) was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics and a college basketball head coach. In 1904, Allen placed fifth in the pole vault competition.[1]
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Allen coached the Niagara basketball team for the 1909–10 season and the St. John's basketball team for the 1910–11 season. Allen's St. John's team finished the season with a 14–0 record[2] and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.[3][4]
In his college years, he attended and competed for Syracuse University.[5]
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