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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
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Saturday, February 9, 1952
8:00 P.M. MEMORIAL COLISEUM
HERE IN STONE AND STFFt IS RAISED A MEMORIAL TO MORE THAN NINk'THOUSANO SONS AND [YAliC.l ITERS OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY WHO CAVE I HEIR LIVES IN BATTLE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN PFACE ERECT AND STRONG AND FREF
WORLD WAR 0 1941-45
'THEY SHALL CROW NOI' OLD. <\S WE THAT MiE LEFT GROW OLD: ACE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM, NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN. A! HIE GOING DOWN 01 I HE SliN \ND IN THE MORNING ' WE WILL REMEMBER THEM ."
The Official Kentucky Basketball Program Is Published For Each Home Game Throughout The Season By The University of Kentucky Athletics Association. Composition And Printing By Kentucky Kernel Press. Prepared And Edited By Ken Kuhn, Sports Publicity Editor.
0 IN MEMORY OF MEN WHO DIED
Dr. Donovan
THIS IS A HOUSE built not on sand but on a firm foundation. Fabricated out of steel, stone, concrete, and brick, it is more substantially built than the Coliseum at Rome and should stand as long. This is Kentucky's Coliseum. It belongs to the people. Erected as a memorial to our honored dead of World War II, it is to be used in the service of the living.
It is an honest building.
This is a house built not for superficial purposes but for an honest program of education. It is a sports arena where thousands may gather in wholesome recreation to witness games of skill played by men who display the finest quality of sportsmanship. It is a gymnasium where students pursue courses in physical education to the betterment of their minds and bodies. It is an auditorium where students and citizens may meet to hear the world's greatest speakers and thinkers bring us wisdom and knowledge. It is a music hall where we may assemble to listen to the great artists of all nations lift us to new heights of aesthetic appreciation. May it, also, frequently be a temple where we may worship and be led into closer communion with God. It will ever be a shrine where the brokenhearted may come to pay homage to their own who paid the last full measure of devotion.
PRESIDENT Yellow Jacket
HEAD BASKETBALL COACH
JOHN HYDER
One of two Georgia Tech athletes ever to win letters in four different sports, John Hyder succeeded Roy McArthur as head basketball coach at the Flats when the latter resigned at the close of last season.
Born at Lula, Ga., on July 10, 1912, Hyder graduated from Georgia Tech in 1937 after lettering in basketball, baseball, track and cross country. He played professional baseball for three seasons, seeing action with Akron, O.; Butler, Pa.; and Augusta, Ga., all New York Yankee farm clubs.
After his retirement from baseball, Hyder coached football, basketball and baseball at Monroe A. & M., remaining there until the school was closed in 1 941. He then moved to Georgia Military Academy as coach but in March of 1942 joined the Navy. Discharged in 1945, Hyder joined the Georgia Tech staff in 1946.
In addition to his basketball duties, Hyder is freshman baseball coach and an instructor in the Georgia Tech physical training department.
BASKETBALL AT GEORGIA TECH
Lack of experience has handicapped Coach After the holiday meet, Tech ran into SEC John Hyder in his initial year as basketball opposition and found the going rough. Tulane mentor at Georgia Tech. Hyder's Jackets list trimmed the Jackets, 73-58, after which they only three men who had played regularly prior defeated Auburn again, this time, 56-54. Like to the current seasonforward Pete Silas, a their first victory over the Tigers, however, junior; center Bill Cline, a senior, and Capt. this one did not count in SEC standings. Ala-Teeter Umstead, senior guard. The rest of bama won a 66-60 decision and Ole Miss de-Hyder's squad is composed of youngsters and feated Tech, 94-64, to round out the first nine reserves of last season. games in the slate.
With Silas in the fore, the Jackets copped Through it all, Silas who was picked to pre-
the Carolinas Invitational tournament at Char- season All-SEC fives in coaches' polls by both
Davidson, 78-60. Earlier, they had lost to Par- Tech in scoring,
ris Island's Marines, 90-58, and had beaten Tech loses only Cline and Umstead by
South Carolina, 66-64. graduation at the close of the current season.
4 UK BASKETBALL ROSTER
No. Name Pos. Class Ht. Wt. Age Home Town
6 Hagan, Cliff F-C Jr. 6-4 200 20 Owensboro, Ky
7 Flynn, James F Fr. 6-2 180 18 Lexington, Ky
1 1 Linville, Shelby F-C Sr. 6-5 200 23 Middletown, O
16 Tsioropoulos, Louis C-F Jr. 6-5 200 22 Lynn, Mass
18 Nutt, Houston F Fr. 6-1 168 18 Fordyce, Ark
19 Cooke, George G Fr. 6-0 170 19 Maysville, Ky
20 Rose, Gayle G Soph. 6-0 155 18 Paris, Ky
22 Clark, Ronald C-F Fr. 6-6 185 18 Springfield, Mass
25 Swartz, Dan F Fr. 6-3 180 18 Owingsville, Ky
30 Ramsey, Frank G-F Jr. 6-3 185 20 Madisonville, Ky
31 Cosby, Neale G Fr. 5-9 140 18 Athens, Ky
32 Whitaker, Lucian G Sr. 6-0 170 21 Louisville, Ky
33 Keller, Charles G Fr. 5-11 160 18 Jonesboro, Ark
35 Preston, Wood row F Fr. 6-2 165 18 Pikeville, Ky
36 Rouse, Willie G Soph. 6-0 160 18 Lexington, Ky
37 Neff, Gene F Soph. 6-2 185 19 Eaton, O
42 Evans, Bill G Soph. 6-1 170 18 Berea, Ky
43 Sharp, Brown G Fr. 5-6 140 19 Lexington, Ky
44 Dwyer, Cliff C Fr. 6-8 220 17 Cincinnati, O
66 Watson, Robert G Sr. 5-10]/2 155 21 Owensboro, Ky
(Players will wear same uniform numbers in both blue and white game dress.)
GEORGIA TECH BASKETBALL ROSTER
No. Name Pos. Class Ht. Wt. Age Home Town
3 Hill, Doug C Jr. 6-5 210 21 Ft. Knox, Ky
4 Cline, Bill C Sr. 6-6 200 21 Salisbury, N. C
5 Anderson, Gene F Jr. 6-2 180 19 Adrian, Ga
6 Austin, Mike F Jr. 6-1 180 20 Wilmington, N. C
7 Taylor, Phil G Fr. 5-10 160 18 Sarasota, Fla
8 Silas, Pete F Jr. 6-6 180 19 Miami, Fla
9 Barnes, Bobby F Soph. 6-3 165 20 Savannah, Ga
10 Umstead, Teeter (C) G Sr. 6-0 175 22 Ft. Knox, Ky
1 1 Harwell, John F Soph. 6-1 165 19 Cleveland, O
12 Crake, Eric G Jr. 5-10 170 20 Houston, Tex
14 Dyer, Vaughn F Soph. 6-2 165 20 Chattanooga, Tenn
15 Sennett, Bill F Soph. 6-2 180 20 Alcoa, Tenn
18 Templeton, Peden F Jr. 5-1 1 170 22 Bristol, Tenn
5 FACTS ABOUT THE COLISEUM
LOCATED ON EUCLID AVENUE between Lexington Avenue and Rose Street, the majestic Memorial Coliseum has a seating capacity of 12,000 for basketball games and 15,000 for programs in which folding chairs may be placed on the playing floor. Seating space for approximately 300 persons is provided alongside the 75-foot six-lane swimming pool. All seats on the building's west side, approximately one third of the total, are theater-type chairs, and the remainder are bleacher type. More than 80 per cent of the Coliseum's permanent seats are at side court.
The building contains ticket sales offices, offices for the athletics director, football coach, basketball coach, all assistant coaches, swimming pool director, and the sports publicity editor. Locker rooms for football, basketball, baseball and all minor sports also are located in the new structure.
Excavation of the building site required removal of 40,000 cubic yards of earth and more than 10,000 cubic yards of rock. Construction required 1 1,000 cubic yards of concrete and more than 500 tons of reinforcing steel. Other construction materials used in the building include 3,500,000 brick, 3,000 tons of structural steel, 2.3 acres of roofing, and two acres of terrazo flooring.
Measured from the Euclid avenue side (the front), the Coliseum is 82 feet in height. Its acoustically-treated ceiling is 49 feet above the playing floor, and the span of its main trusses is 225 feet. Twenty-six double-doored exits allow the building to be emptied of a capacity crowd in little more than ten minutes, and a combination heating and ventilating system produces six to eight complete air changes per hour.
The basketball court, laid on a sub-floor of concrete, is permanent and cannot be removed.
Near perfect from an acoustical standpoint, the huge auditorium can be used for concerts and lectures as well as for sports events, conventions and all-University convocations.
The Coliseum's permanent equipment includes a large electric organ, facilities for radio and television broadcasts, and ample space for the working press.
Names of the 9,306 Gold Star Kentuckians have been lettered on permanent plaques which occupy recessed wall panels in the Coliseum entry ramps. Bronze stars have been placed in the concourses of the building by the Student Government Association in honor of the University of Kentucky men who died in the war. ADOLPH RUPP
"The Man In the Brown Suit" sounds like the title for a good mystery thriller and might very well be if it were not for Adolph Rupp, University of Kentucky's affable wizard of hardwood magic.
Colorful as he is successful, Kentucky's head cage mentor long ago was tagged with the descriptive title by sportswriters of the nation because of his preference of brown as a game-night wardrobe and thus forestalled any cloak-and-dagger novelist from becoming famous with the title.
The nation's winningest basketball coach is known to the sports world by a variety of titles, such as "Mr. Basketball," "The Baron," "Colonel," "01' Rupp and Ready," and "The Man In The Brown Suit"but none adequately describes the human interest of the man who has done more than any other modern tutor to make the cage game a national spectator sport.
With his 21st year at the bluegrass school behind him, Baron Rupp can look back over a two-decade regime of unparalleled successan amazing record of 442 wins against 79 losses plus a third NCAA Tournament Championship for his Kentucky bas-ketters, representing the first team in history to annex the title three times.
The crafty professor of hardwood tactics and his nationally-famous Wildcats have become virtually synonymous in the basketball world. The record compiled by Rupp-coached Kentucky teams borders on the fantastic and his cage powerhouses have consistently won nationwide fame in intercollegiate competition.
Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats can boast an unequaled record of 83 victories against 17 defeats in major tournament competition over the past 21 years, including participation in 18 national classics. The Bluegrass cagers were the first team in the history of the Naismith sport to win two NCAA and one National Invitational crown and last season won their third NCAA Tournament title to become the first to accomplish this feat.
HARRY LANCASTER
Baron Rupp's capable assistant professor of basketball knowledge and general right hand man is genial Harry Lancaster. As Kentucky's first full-time assistant cage coach, he bosses a promising squad of first year performers who make up the "B" team and handles the gruelling assignment of scouting the Wildcats' future opponents. Lancaster, who came to U.K. in 1942 as an instructor in physical education, spent last summer in Greece as a representative of the U. S. State Department. His duties consisted primarily of advising Greek Basketball Federation officials and coaches, lecturing and conducting coaching clinics.
7 Back Row Bobby Moore (Team Manager), Cliff Hagan, Shelby Linville, Dick Haycock (no longer on ream), Ronnie Clark, Bill Spivey, Cliff Dwyer, Doug Howell (no longer on team), Lou Tsioropoulos, Frank Ramsey, and SmoKy Harper u rainer)
Middle Row Adolph Rupp (Head Coach), Dan Swartz, Gene Neff, Billy Evans, Gayle Rose, Willie Rouse, Bobby Watson, Skippy Whit-aker, and Harry Lancaster (Assistant Coach)
Front Row Brown Sharp, George Cooke, Jim Flynn, Woodrow Preston, Charles Keller, and Houston Nutt
KENTUCKY SCORE CARD
KENTUCKY ( ) F. G. F. T. P. F. T. P.
16 Tsioropoulos (f)
30 Ramsey (f)
6 Hagan (c)
32 Whitaker (g)
66 Watson (g)
7 Flynn (f)
11 Linville (f)
19 Cooke (g)
20 Rose (g)
25 Swartz (f-c)
33 Keller (g)
35 Preston (f)
36 Rouse (g)
37 Neff (f)
42 Evans (g)
44 Dwyer (c)
TOTALS
(Complete Roster on Page 5) Back Row Phil Taylor, John Harwell, Doug Hill, Pete Silas, Coach John Hyder, Bill Cline, Bobby Barnes, and Mike Austin Front Row Gene Anderson, Vaughn Dyer, Bill Sennett, Capt. Teeter Umstead, Peden Templeton, Eric Crake, and Bud Witt
GEORGIA TECH SCORE CARD
GEORGIA TECH ( ) F. G. F. T. P. F. T. P.
8 Silas (f)
T1 Harwell (f)
4 Cline (c)
10 Umstead (g)
12 Crake (g)
3 Hill (c)
5 Anderson (f)
6 Austin (f)
7 Taylor (g)
9 Barnes (f)
14 Dyer (f)
15 Sennett (f)
18 Templeton (f)

TOTALS
(Complete Roster on Page 5)
9 ^>a&6et&aM at 'Kentucky
ANY STORY OF A MAN who began "on a shoestring" and moved along to acquire a financial empire has a parallel in the story of University t of Kentucky basketball. The first quintet at U.K. was a one-basketball outfit, and the ball used for all practice and games was furnished by the players, who chipped in a quarter or a half-dollar apiece to buy the heavy little balloon. Basketball appeared on the campus soon after the turn of the century, the game itself then very, very young. The school made no provision for a coach, but a gymnasium had been provided perhaps with no such specific purpose in mind when Barker Hall was erected and placed in use in 1902. The south end of the new structure housed what has since become known as Buell Armory, where cadets drilled on a dirt floor. In the other wing was a shiny new gymnasium.
Kentucky's first recognized varsity hoop team, according to available records, played only two games in the season of 1904-05 and broke even. The pioneering cagers participated in 12 games the following season. Thomson R. Bryant, now Assistant Director of Agricultural Extension at U.K., was one of the first varsity hoopsters. Dick Barbee was another. Finally, a duly designated basketball coach came along, for the season of 1907-08, in the person of one W. H. Mustaine.
Many of the players in the first decade or so of Kentucky basketball were survivors of those rugged early-day gridiron altercations on near-by Stoll Field, who mostly turned to the new game for a little fun and exercise during the winter months, but the sport had established itself in its own right by the time a U.K. team captured the Southern collegiate championship in a tournament in Atlanta in 1921.
A Lexingtonian, Bill King, cashed the free throw that nipped Georgia 20-19 in the final contest there, bringing the first of many championships earned by U.K. in basketball and spurring public clamor for a better court. The first gym, which for the last 20 years has been known as the women's gymnasium, was the scene of several of the early state high school basketball tournaments although having room for only three or four hundred spectators. Alumni Gymnasium, then viewed as a huge structure, was used first in 1924-25, and many wondered whether its 2,800 seats would ever be needed.
It seemed particularly fitting to most that the first Kentucky team to use the spacious new gymnasium was composed largely of Capt. Jimmy Mc-Farland, Will Milward, Burgess Carey, and Lovell (Cowboy) Underwood, all of whom had been regulars on the team that brought the national high school championship in 1922 to old Lexington Senior High. Rounding out the first team for that campaign was C. T. (Turkey) Hughes, who was to become the first U.K. athlete earning varsity letters in four sports.
Fairly soon after the appearance on the scene for coaching duty of Adolph Rupp, championships began to come with regularity, crowds began to overflow the "huge" new hall not just occasionally but for most of the games. Alumni Gymnasium had been badly outgrown long before it could be abandoned at the start of the 1950-51 campaign for the world's handsomest basketball hall, Memorial Coliseum a climax in a story of success from a shoestring start.LARRY SHROPSHIRE.
10 Code of Sportsmanship
We, the students of the University of Kentucky, having an abiding faith in the value of intercollegiate athletics as an instrument in promoting friendly relations among universities, do adopt this code of sportsmanship for this Memorial Coliseum:
1. Winning or losing, an athletics team of the University of Kentucky will have our continued and wholehearted support.
2. We expect our team to measure up to the highest ideals in sportsmanship, and we pledge that our conduct shall be equally as praiseworthy.
3. The visiting team and coaches, and the officials are our guests. As such, they command our respect, courtesy, and hospitality.
4. We shall in all ways abide by the regulations of the University governing the use of the Coliseum.
5. Bearing always in mind the sacrifices of those to whose memory this building is dedicated, we pledge ourselves to a standard of conduct worthy of these honored dead.
6. We call upon all who join us in the support of University of Kentucky athletics teams to join us likewise in support of this code.
The Student Government Association of the University of Kentucky
11 KENTUCKY BASKETBALL SCHEDULE 1951-52
Ky. Opp.
Dec. 8Washington & Lee (H) .. 96 46
Dec. 10Xavier (A) .................... 97 72
Dec. 13Minnesota (A) .............. 57 61
Dec. 17St. Johns (H) ................ 81 40
Dec. 20De Paul (H) .................. 98 60
Dec. 26U.C.L.A. (H).................. 84 53
SUGAR BOWL TOURNAMENT
Dec. 28B.Y.U. (A) .................... 84 64
Dec. 29St. Louis (A) ................ 60 61
Jan. 3U. of Mississippi (A) ......116 58
Jan. 5L.S.U. (H) ...................... 57 47
jan. 7Xavier (H) .................... 83 50
Jan. 12Florida (A) .................... 99 52
Jan. 14Georgia (A) .................. 95 55
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Ky. Opp.
Jan. 19Tennessee (A) .............. 65 56
Jan. 21Georgia Tech (A) .......... 96 51
Jan. 26Alabama (A) ................ 71 67
Jan. 28Vanderbilt (A) .............. 88 51
Jan. 30Auburn (A) .................. 88 48
Feb. 2Notre Dame .................. Chicago
Feb. 4Tulane$2.00..................Home
Feb. 6U. of Mississippi$2.00....Home
Feb. 9Georgia Tech$2.00........Home
Feb. 1 1Mississippi State$2.00....Home
Feb. 16Tennessee$2.50 ............ Home
Feb. 21Vanderbilt$2.50 ............ Home
Feb. 23De Paul ............................ Away
Feb. 28, 29
March 1SEC Tournament ...... Louisville
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1950-51 KENTUCKY BASKETBALL RECORD
Ky. Opp.
West Texas State ............ (H) 73 43
Purdue.............................. (H) 70 52
Xavier .............................. (A) 67 56
Florida .............................. (H) 85 37
Kansas .............................. (H) 68 39
St. John's.......................... (A) 43 37
SUGAR BOWL TOURNAMENT
St. Louis .......................... (N) 42 43
(Overtime)
Syracuse .......................... (N) 69 59
Auburn ............................ (H) 79 35
DePaul ............................ (H) 63 55
Alabama .......................... (H) 65 48
Notre Dame .................... (H) 69 44
Tennessee ........................ (A) 70 45
Georgia Tech .................... (A) 82 61
Vanderbilt ........................ (A) 74 49
Tulane .............................. (A) 104 68
L. S. U............................. (A) 81 59
Mississippi State .............. (A) 80 60
Mississippi ........................ (A) 86 39
Georgia Tech .................... (H) 75 42
Xavier .............................. OH) 78 51
Tennessee ........................ (H) 86 61
DePaul .............................. (A) 60 57
Georgia ............................ (H) 88 41
Vanderbilt ........................ (H) 89 57
(SEC champions)
SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT
Mississippi State................(N) 92 70
Auburn ............................ (N) 84 54
Georgia Tech .................... (N) 57 61
Vanderbilt (Finals) ............ 57 67
Post Season Game
Loyola (Chicago) .............. (H) 97 61
NCAA TOURNAMENT
Louisville (at Raleigh, N. C.) 79 68
St. John's (at New York, N. Y.) 59 43
Illinois (at New York, N. Y.) 76 74
(Eastern finals)
Kansas State
(at Minneapolis, Minn.) 68 58 (NCAA champions)
Total .............................. 2540 1783
NCAA Tournament Champions for Third Time (First three-time tournament winner in NCAA history)
SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE Champions for Eighth Consecutive Season
(Annual SEC Tournament did not determine conference championship)
NUMBER ONE TEAM IN NATION by Final Rankings
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7957-52 HOME BASKETBALL KENTUCKY versus
Washington & Lee Dec. 8
St. John's .......................... Dec. 17
DePaul Dec. 20
U.C.LA............................. Dec. 26
L.S.U................................. Jan. 5
Xavier...............................Jan. 7
Tulane .............................. Feb. 4
U. of Mississippi Feb. 6
Georgia Tech .................... Feb. 9
Mississippi State Feb. 11
Tennessee.......................... Feb. 16
Vanderbilt ........................ Feb. 21
SEC Tournament.............. Mar. 1
(in Louisville)
7952 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
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*VILLANOVA ............... Sept. 20 !
*OLE MISS.................... Sept. 27 !
TEXAS A&M Oct. 4 !
LS.U............................ Oct. 11
?MISSISSIPPI STATE Oct. 18
CINCINNATI Oct. 25
MIAMI (Fla.) ............... Oct. 31
I *TULANE ...................... Nov. 8
j *GEO. WASHINGTON Nov. 15
j TENNESSEE Nov. 22
J *FLORIDA .................... Nov. 29
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