The year was 1916. Kansas State was the market for a new football and basketball coach, and the vacancies attracted the attention of someone who was coaching both teams at a school in Missouri at the time.
Phog Allen.
According to a 1939 story in the Kansas student newspaper, the Kansan, Allen was approached by outgoing K-State football coach John Bender about applying for his position.
Allen was coaching football and basketball at Warrensburg Teachers College, now Central Missouri, and winning. His first four football teams there (1912-15) won the MIAA championship, as did his first two basketball teams.