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KU planner Keith Lawton helped build Allen Fieldhouse legacy
Keith Lawton, longtime KU campus planner, played a key role in postwar expansion and securing steel for Allen Fieldhouse. He expedited construction during wartime steel controls, aided by Murphy Lonborg and DeWitt Carr. Fieldhouse finished March 1955 after delays, opening with a win over Kansas State.
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Keith Lawton
Kansas University
Allen Fieldhouse
Lawton
Hallowed Allen Fieldhouse
Franklin Murphy
War Production Board
Phog Allen
Limtbo
Navy
T. DeWitt Carr
Arthur“Dutch” Lonborg
Murphy
Washington
Naval Rotc
U.S. Steel
Chicago
Windy City
Notre Dame
Lonborg
Northwestern University
Notre Dame University
Harry Stuhldreher
Four Horsemen
Lawrence
Kansas State University