xt73ff3kwv65 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt73ff3kwv65/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky 1963  athletic publications English University of Kentucky Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. University of Kentucky Basketball Media Guides (Men) Basketball, 1963 text Basketball, 1963 1963 2012 true xt73ff3kwv65 section xt73ff3kwv65  UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 1962-63 BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
Date 19 6 2 Dec. 1
Dec. 8 Dec. 12 Dec. 15 Dec. 17
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Virginia Tech .................. Lexington         8:00 p.m. EST
Temple ............................ Philadelphia      9:15 p.m. EST
Florida State .................... Lexington         8:00 p.m. EST
Northwestern .................. Lexington         8:00 p.m. EST
North Carolina ................ Lexington         8:00 p.m. EST
Dec. 21-22 U.K. Invitational Tournament .......................... Lexington
(Oregon State, West 7:30 and appx. 9:30 p.m.
Dec. 27
Dec. 29 Dec. 3 1 19 6 3 Jan. 5 Jan. 7 Jan. 1 1 Jan. 12 Jan. 19 Jan. 26 Jan. 28 Jan. 31 Feb. 2 Feb. 9 Feb. 1 1 Feb. 18 Feb. 23 Feb. 25 Mar. 2
Virginia, Iowa and Ky.)
Dartmouth ...................... Lexington
Notre Dame .................... Louisville
St. Louis .......................... St. Louis
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Georgia Tech .................. Lexington
Vanderbilt ...................... Nashville
Louisiana State ................ Baton Rouge
Tulane ............................ New Orleans
Tennessee ........................ Lexington
Xavier ............................ Lexington
Georgia Tech .................. Atlanta
Georgia ............................ Lexington
Florida ............................ Lexington
Mississippi ...................... Jackson
Mississippi State .............. State College
Vanderbilt ...................... Lexington
Auburn ............................ Lexington
Alabama .......................... Lexington
Tennessee ........................ Knoxville
(NOTE: UK Freshman schedule inside back cover. Other dates to rememberNCAA First Round March 11-12 at sites to be decided; NCAA Mideast Regional March 15-16 at East Lansing, Mich.; NCAA Finals March 22-23 at Louisville; Coaches Assn. All-America Game March 30 at UK Coliseum.)
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COVERBaron Adolph Rupp poses with his unique collection of four NCAA championship trophies and the player he hopes will materially aid his quest for an unprecedented fifth trophy-All-America Cotton Nash. Color photo by UK Photographer John Mitchell. University of Kentucky Basketball Facts  1962-63
INDEX
All-Americans, All-Conference 33-34
All-America Game ........................ 25
Asst. Coach Lancaster ............ 15-16
Athletics At Kentucky ................ 4
Athletic Director Shively ............ 6-7
Coach Rupp ................................ 8-13
Coaches Through Years .............. 18
Frosh Record ................................102
Frosh Schedule1962
Results ........................ Inside Back
Graduate Assistants .............. 17-18
Hoggin Hall .................................. 83
Home Floor Losses ........................ 38
Hotels on the Road ...................... 99
Invitational Tournament ..........26-29
Kuhn Brown Hukle ........................ 19
Lettermen Through Years 100-102
Medal-Trophy Winners ................ 35
Memorial Coliseum ..................84-85
Outlook Story ............................21-22
Pictures (Varsity-Frosh) .........62-63
Player Profiles ............................39-59
Polls ................................................ 29
Records (Varsity) ......................90-98
Record vs. All Opponents .103-105
Review1961-62 .......................... 23
Rosters (Varsity-Frosh) ............60-61
Rupp and UK Winningest ........86-87
Rupp EraMilestones .................. 14
Schedule (Varsity) ...... Inside Front
Scores ....................................106-120
Scouting Reports ......................65-82
Season Record1961-62 .............. 24
SEC  Composite  Standings
Champs By Years ...................... 37
Statistics ........................................ 88
Time PlayPoint Proficiency ...... 99
Top All-Time Scorers .................. 89
Tournament Trail ......................30-32
University of Kentucky ................ 5
UK General Information ............ 2
UK In SEC1962 Standings ...... 36
Wildcats At A Glance ................ 20
Editor: KEN KUHN, Director of Sports Publicity
itititititititit    it   it   it   it   it ft KENTUCKY CAGE BROCHURE CITED AS NATION'S BEST . . .
^ The University of Kentucky and its veteran Director of jj.
Sports Publicity, Ken Kuhn, were paid a unique honor by ^ the nation's basketball writers last August. At its annual meeting, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association announced results of a nation-wide study of basketball press booklets and declared the 1 12-page cage brochure on Kentucky, pre-
President Ray Marquette (Indianapolis News) presented an engraved bronze plaque to Kuhn in recognition of the writ ers' choice.
pared and edited by Kuhn, "Best in the Nation."   USBWA ^ UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
General Information
LOCATIONLexington, Ky., a community of 100,000 in the heart of Kentucky's famed Blue Grass region. Renowned as the world capital of the thoroughbred horse industry and known also as the world's largest loose-leaf tobacco market.
FOUNDED1 865 ENROLLMENT1 1,300
PRESIDENTDr. Frank G. Dickey
VICE-PRESIDENTDr. A. D. Albright
VICE-PRES., BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIONDr. Frank Peterson VICE-PRES., MEDICAL CENTERDr. William Willard FACULTY CHAIRMAN OF ATHLETICSDr. A. D. Kirwan DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONSR. W. Wild ATHLETIC CONFERENCESoutheastern
NICKNAME OF TEAMSWildcats COLORSBlue and White
FIGHT SONG"On, On U. of K." BANDVarsity (Director Phil Miller)
STADIUMMcLean Stadium on Stoll Field (capacity 37,500) GYMNASIUMMemorial Coliseum (capacity 11,500)
Athletics Staff
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICSBernie Shively (Illinois '27) HEAD BASKETBALL COACHAdolph Rupp (Kansas '23) ASSISTANT COACHHarry Lancaster
GRADUATE ASSISTANTSNeil Reed, Rudy Davalos and Ballard Moore
HEAD COACHES OTHER SPORTSFootball: Charlie Bradshaw; Baseball: Harry Lancaster; Track and Cross Country: Bob Johnson; Swimming: Algie Reece; Tennis: Ballard Moore; Golf: Dave Butler; Rifle: Maj. R. N. Weaver
TICKET SALES MANAGERHarvey Hodges
ACCOUNTANTJulien Harrison
BASKETBALL TRAINERJoe Brown
TEAM PHYSICIANDr. D. M. Royalty
BASKETBALL EQUIP. MGR.George Hukle
SPORTS PUBLICITY DIRECTORKen Kuhn (Michigan State '42)
2 TO THE PRESS AND RADIO-TV
Here is your copy of the 1962-63 facts booklet on Kentucky basketball which we sincerely hope will aid you in covering and answering questions on the Wildcats this season. If you desire additional information, special stories, pictures or have questions not answered herein, please feel free to contact the Sports Publicity Office in Memorial Coliseum (Telephone 2-2200, Ext. 2241).
WORKING TICKETSAddress requests to Sports Publicity Office as far in advance as possible. Tickets will not be mailed unless requested and will be held at the Reservation Window at the main entrance of Memorial Coliseum for pickup on game night.
COMPSNo individual game allotment.
WESTERN UNIONWire facilities are available at court side. Please advise if you will be filing from the Coliseum and also notify manager of Western Union in Lexington.
RADIO BROADCASTSApplications must be directed at least one week in advance to Radio Director, University of Kentucky, Lexington. Tickets will be supplied by the Sports Publicity Office only upon receipt of approved permit from the Radio Director. Spotters are available if requested in advance. Line orders should be made to General Telephone Company, Lexington.
TV AND MOTION PICTURESNews clip film highlights will be furnished to TV stations or newsreel agencies at actual cost upon arrangement at least one week in advance. Stations or agencies desiring to shoot own film must make application to the University Radio Director at least one week in advance. Forms may be signed to cover the entire season. Tickets will be issued by the Sports Publicity Office only upon receipt of approved permit. A maximum of 200 feet of filmed highlights may be shown on a delayed basis. Live TV coverage prohibited except under arrangements made with UK Athletic Director.
KEN KUHN Director of Sports Publicity
Miss Linda Hill Secreta ry
Ronnie Cathey Student Assistant
Information
3 ATHLETICS AT KENTUCKY
Kentucky's athletic program, a well-balanced and ambitious activity featuring inter-collegiate competition in nine different sports, is organized under the Department of Athletics and a corporation known as the University of Kentucky Athletics Association.
The program is conducted without overemphasis or sacrifice of educational objectives and in strict compliance with the rules of the University, the Southeastern Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
A Board of Directors, headed by UK President Frank Dickey, maintains overall policy supervision of the athletic program. Dr. Leo Chamberlain, vice-president of the University, has general supervision over the Department and serves as vice-chairman of the Board. Dr. A. D. Kirwan, one-time Wildcat coach and UK's faculty representative to the Southeastern Conference, serves the directors as secretary and Dr. Frank Peterson, UK vice-president for business administration, acts as treasurer in an ex-officio capacity.
Supervising the steady growth and balanced development of one of the nation's top athletic programs is Bernie A. Shively, a former Illinois grid Ail-American and a veteran of nearly 25 years in the post of Director of Athletics.
The Association's Board of Directors is composed of the following:
Dr. Frank G. Dickey, Chairman
Dr. A. D. Kirwan, Secretary
James B. Allen
Dr. Ralph Angelucci
Dr. Aubrey J. Brown
Dr. Thomas Clark
Dr. Lyman Ginger
Prof. W. W. Haynes
Dr. Leo M. Chamberlain, Vice Chairman
Prof. John Kuiper
Dr. W. L. Matthews, Jr.
Robert Stephens
Dr. D. V. Terrell
Prof. William A. Tolman
Floyd Wright
Raleigh Lane
(Student Representative) THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
. . . The State Is Our Campus
The present school, which last fall enrolled 1 1,300 students and population in the heart of Kentucky's famed Blue Grass region, University of Kentucky is a state-supported, land-grant institution now in its 98th year.
The present school, which last fall enrolled 1 1,300 students and now offers instruction in 10 academic colleges plus a Graduate School
and a division of Extended Programs, had its beginnings in 1865 when it was established as a part of old Kentucky University. This action by the State Legislature united sectarian and public education under one organization for the first time. Federal funds authorized under the Morrill Act were used to develop agriculture and mechanical arts within KU and, in 1878, A&M College was separated from KU to become a separate state institution on the general site of what is now the 706-acre main campus. Name changes in 1908 and 1916 resulted in the title by which the school is now known.
Dr. Frank G. Dickey currently serves as president of the University. The youthful, athletic-minded former dean President Dickey of the UK College of Education suc-
ceeded venerable Dr. Herman L. Donovan in 1956 as the eighth chief administrative officer in the school's history. Dr. Dickey also is a former president of the Southeastern Conference.
The University is on the approved list of the Association of American Universities and is a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. It is fully accredited in its respective colleges and departments by all of the major professional societies and educational organizations.
5 DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS BERNIE A. SHIVELY
Supervising the steady growth and balanced development of one of the nation's top athletic programs is the Herculean task being carried out successfully by Bernie A. Shively.
Few who have observed the untiring efforts of the tall, silver-haired former All-America footballer in the service of the University of
Kentucky since 1927 and as Director of Athletics since 1938 will argue his fitness as an athletic Hercules. Not only has Shively guided the development of Kentucky as a nationally-respected power in major sports, but he has also gained personal prestige through a fair-minded approach to many problems.
During his tenure as Athletic Director, Shively has directly supervised major expansions in Kentucky's athletic plant resulting from the progression of the school's athletic teams to greater national prominence and increased patronage by the sports-minded public.
The seating capacity of Kentucky's football stadium has been doubled to bring the current number of seats to approximately 37,500 and on par with most other schools located in heavier-populated areas. Powerful new lighting equipment has been installed to bring night football into new popularity. Partly to satisfy the overwhelming number of basketball devotees, who could not squeeze into the 2,800-seat Alumni Gymnasium, a long-planned Memorial Coliseum was completed in 1950. Seating 1 1,500 persons for cage contests, the
Chairman, NCAA Basketball Tournament Committee
6 four-million dollar Coliseum also houses the Athletic Department and provided the first permanent home for the school's many minor sports teams. More recently, Shively directed the acquisition of a pair of modern, ranch-style living units which have served as the home of the football team since 1954.
A large dressing room building and football practice field, used since 1955, were abandoned in 1959 to make way for a huge new men's dorm. Under Shively's supervision, a spacious new Sports Center has been prepared a short distance away on the University farm to take even better care of the footballers and spring sports teams.
All-America Guard At Illinois
A native of Paris, 111., Shively attended the University of Illinois where he was an All-America guard in 1926 on the same grid team made famous by Red Grange. Demonstrating a claim to being one of the finest all-around athletes in Illinois' history, "Shive" also laid claim to the Big 10 heavyweight wrestling championship and annexed letters in track before graduating in 1927.
Shively came to Kentucky in 1927 as line coach of football under Harry Gamage. A shift in the coaching ranks in 1933 resulted in Shively's promotion to head of the UK Physical Education Department, a position he retained until he succeeded Chet Wynne as Athletic Director in 1938. During this period and the years following, he also served as track and baseball coach for several seasons and continued as a football assistant until 1944. The next year, 1945, he assumed full charge of the grid squad for one season before turning the job over to mentor Paul (Bear) Bryant in 1946.
The Kentucky athletic chief is nationally recognized for his outstanding contributions to basketball as chairman of the NCAA Tournament committee and, for a number of years served in the same capacity for the Southeastern Conference. He is a past chairman of the NCAA summer baseball group and has served as president of the SEC Coaches and Athletic Directors Association since 1954. In addition, he has been active in numerous state and civic organizations including chairmanship of the Fayette County Recreation Board.
Shively and his wife, Ruth, have two children. Doug was co-captain of the Wildcat grid team in 1958 and now is coaching at VPI while daughter Suzanne was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UK in 1957.
7  ADOLPH FREDERICK RUPP
"Nation's Winningest Basketball Coach" 32 Years  Won 668, Lost 125  84.2%
For over three decades, the sports world has watched an amazing record being forged with near perfection out' of meager raw material by a colorful figure in the Blue Grass country of Kentucky known familiarly to hundreds of thousands as the "Man in the Brown Suit."
He is Adolph Rupp of Kentucky and when the sport of basketball is mentioned today, a direct chain of thought brings out the name of this maker of champions who holds undisputed rank as the "Nation's Winningest Basketball Coach." The name of Rupp, feared and respected in opponents' hearts and beloved by the millions who have witnessed the remarkable success of his Wildcat cage teams, has become synonymous with the game of basketball.
Such unprecedented recognition for the fabulous mentor is only natural since his success in the past 32 years as head man of the fabled Kentucky cage thoroughbreds has been nothing short of phenomenal. It would take a book longer than his own technical bestseller, "Championship Basketball," to recite the record completely. Briefly, however, that record includes:
An amazing 668 victories out of 793 starts for an unparalleled winning percentage of better than 84 percent against major competition.
Certification by the NCAA Service Bureau as the nation's most successful collegiate basketball coach, both for the decade ending in 1961 and at the 20-year level.
One of only three still-active collegiate cage coaches with "membership" in the exclusive 600 club in which the dues are 600 victories.
Selection as the national "Coach of the Year" in 1959 for the second time in his career.
An unprecedented honor roll of four NCAA Tournament championships picked up by his Wildcats who hold the all-time record of 13 appearances in the national classic and can claim more victories in NCAA play (23) than any other team.
A nominal world's championship as co-coach of the successful USA entry in the 1948 Olympic Games which included members of Kentucky's NCAA champions.
9 Producer of more Olympic gold medallion winners (7) than any other cage coach.
A total of 20 Southeastern Conference titles since the league was organized in 1933.
Election to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959 and previous selection (in 1946) by Helms Athletic Foundation as a member of their exclusive cage Hall of Fame.
Recipient of the Governor's Medallion in 1959 for meritorious service to the Commonwealth of Kentucky and plaques of appreciation from the U.S. Air Force (1959) and Sugar Bowl committee (1951).
Election to the Kentucky Hall of Fame (1945), outstanding citizen of Lexington (1949) and twice honorary citizen of the City of New Orleans.
Coach of the winning East team in the Shrine East-West game 1959.
Development of more All-Americans (20 players honored 28 times) and more material for the pro ranks (21) than any other coach.
Four Sugar Bowl Tournament championships, a National Invitation Tournament title and five trophies from the first nine UK Invitational Tournaments.
Membership on the NCAA Basketball Rules Committee.
Rupp's Teams Play In Most Tournaments
Tournament invitations in pre-Rupp years were almost unheard ofKentucky played in only seven sectional eliminations. In contrast, the Rupp-led Wildcats have the distinction of playing in more tournaments of all types than any other team. All told, his Bluegrass five has achieved the unequalled feat of 137 victories against only 38 defeats, covering action in 37 national classics plus 29 conference meets and the '48 Olympics.
Although the competition was nowhere near as rugged as the schedules played by today's nationally-recognized Wildcat brigades, Rupp's very first team compiled a respectable 15-3 record and Kentucky basketball has been on a winning plane ever since. The most games lost in a single season since Rupp added his touch was nine in 1960-61 and the remarkably low average number of losses per season in the Rupp Era is three.
10 His teams have finished as national champion in the polls four times in the last 13 years. They were unranked in the top 20 only in the 1952-53 campaign, when they were idle. Possibly his greatest achievement came in the 1953-54 season when the Wildcats rolled unchecked through a 25-game schedule of top-flight opposition to become the biggest-winning, perfect-record unit in all basketball history up to that time.
Rivaling that achievement, in the opinion of the sportswriters and broadcasters, is the tremendous coaching jobs turned in by the basketball miracle man in more recent seasons. Five years ago, Rupp guided a moderately talented club to an 18th SEC title, third place in the polls and a ninth NCAA Tournament appearance while achieving a 23-5 record. The surprised experts, who had predicted UK would not win its own conference, voted Coach Rupp the runner-up spot as "Coach of the Year."
Even that effort went by the boards in 1958, however, as Kentucky's talentless wonders copped the NCAA title for an unprecedented fourth time. The Wildcats were unsung and almost unknown except by reputation and heritage. Not a single man had been honored on the All-Conference fives selected before tournament time and they had lost more games (6) in regular season play than any UK team in 17 years.
Wins National 'Coach of Year' Honor
If the experts thought that was tops in miracles, they reckoned without the amazing drive of this man Rupp. With four-fifths of his starting lineup gone, he re-built shattered foundations in such an astonishing fashion that the Wildcats rolled through the 1959 season almost unchecked. Although they failed to win the title in their increasingly-tough Southeastern Conference for only the third time since 1943, UK was generally conceded to be the nation's top team. Most experts agreed that the Kentuckians, who finished with a 24-3 record and ranked second nationally, missed a golden opportunity to pick up a fifth NCAA crown as they were upset by Louisville in the tourney opener. This feeling was given meaning as Rupp was accorded "Coach of the Year" honor by United Press International.
The 1959-60 season admittedly was not a great one as the UKats chalked up only an 18-7 marksecond worst season of the Rupp Era. However, many experts considered the outcome to be a tribute to one of the greatest coaching efforts ever turned in. Plagued from the beginning of the season to the end by adversity (sickness, injuries, eligi-
1 1 bility difficulties and personnel problems, complete disaster was always imminent and avoided only by masterful juggling (16 different starting combos) and artful strategy moves.
It was a similar story of great coaching technique against the heavy odds of personnel and schedule in 1960-61. Although the final record read only 19-9 (worst ever for a Rupp team), a closer look reveals the touch of Rupp was there for the Wildcats were regrouped into a fearsome outfit after early troubles and rolled to 1 1 wins in their last 12 starts. Enroute they conquered eventual SEC champ Mississippi State on the road and demolished Vanderbilt in a SEC Playoff for an NCAA berth. They never ran out of gas until stopped by Ohio State in regional finals.
There was no way of anticipating the tremendous season that evolved in 1961-62 except to depend on the proven touch of master rebuilder Rupp. He had done it before, but losing four starters off the losing team of his career (19-9 in '61) presented a terrific challenge. Undaunted by odds, Coach Rupp guided his "Fearless Five" past challenge after challenge, copping the title in the UK Invitational and cornering a share of the SEC championship for the 20th time. Finally, critical lack of height and bench strength caught up with the 'Cats in the NCAA Regional finals and they put gear away until next year with an amazing, 23-3 record that even Rupp admitted was "one of the most surprising ever."
Rupp Credited For Increasing Interest
Rupp is recognized by sports authorities with doing more than any other modern tutor to make basketball a national spectator sport. From the very outset of his career at Kentucky, which began in 1930, he has introduced or popularized many new and revised trends in the game that have aided materially in making the country basketball-minded. One such innovation was the controlled fast break offensive pattern that has since become the crowd-pleasing trademark of Wildcat cage teams.
The outstanding success of this man as a basbetball coach is matched only by the personal fame he has attained off the court.
The masterful story-teller is equally renowned on the banquet and coaching clinic circuit and is in constant demand as a speaker in the off season. He annually appears in more than a dozen states to make speaking engagements and believes he has missed only Alaska in tours throughout the 50 states. Rupp undoubtedly has conducted ~ore coaching clinics than any other tutor.  Overseas assignments for
12 the Army and Air Force have taken him in recent years to Europe three times (last, Germany 1961) and twice to Hawaii and the Far East (last, summer 1962). Several foreign Olympic coaches have studied under Rupp at UK.
Internationally recognized for his avocation as a registered Hereford breeder-enthusiast, Rupp is currently in his ninth term as president of the Kentucky Hereford Assn. He owns and operates one of the largest farms in the Bluegrass area and serves as a director of the Central District Warehousing Corp., world's largest tobacco marketing or-ford breeder-enthusiast, Rupp is currently in his tenth term as presi-ganization. The coach recently was named to a five-year term on the Board of Governors of the Agricultural Hall of Fame and National Agricultural Center.
The coach is active in Shrine affairs, being chosen in 1950 as one of the 10 outstanding Shriners of the nation and holding honorary memberships in temples throughout the country. He is a Past Potentate of the Oleika (Lexington) Temple and serves as vice-chairman of the board for the Shrine Crippled Children's Hospital in Lexington. Three years ago, he was nominated as one of five candidates for the Imperial Outer Guard of the Shrine. Rupp serves also as state chairman of the Cerebral alsy Association.
He has his own television and radio shows during the season, has produced two film shorts ("Basketball: Individual Offense" for Coca-Cola Co. and "Parade to National Championship") and written books on virtually every phase of the game. The Coach also is chairman of the board of the Leatherguard Corporation and a board member of American Central Life Insurance Company.
Born in Halstead, Kansas, Sept. 2, 1901, Rupp attended University of Kansas where he played guard under Phog Allen. Following graduation in 1923, he coached high school ball one year at Marshall-town, Iowa, and then at Freeport, III., four seasons before coming to Kentucky in 1930. His fame as "The Man in the Brown Suit" stems from his superstitious preference of brown as the color of his game-night wardrobe.
13 THE RUPP ERA 1930-1962
Season UK Won           Opps. Won Percent
1930- 31 .................... 15 .................... 3 .....................833
1931- 32 .................... 15 .................... 2 .....................882
1932- 33 .................... 20 .................... 3 .....................870
1933- 34 .................... 15 .................... 1 .....................938
1934- 35 .................... 19 .................... 2 .....................905
1935- 36 .................... 15 .................... 6 .....................714
1936- 37 .................... 17 .................... 5 .....................774
1937- 38 .................... 13 .................... 5 :....................722
1938- 39 .................... 16 .................... 4 .....................800
1939- 40 .................... 15 .................... 6 .....................714
1940- 41 .................... 17 .................... 8 .....................680
1941- 42 .................... 19 .................... 6 .....................760
1942- 43 .................... 17 .................... 6 .....................739
1943- 44 .................... 19 .................... 2 .....................905
1944- 45 .................... 22 .................... 4 .....................846
1945- 46 .................... 28 .................... 2 .....................933
1946- 47.................... 34 .................... 3 .....................918
1947- 48 .................... 36 .................... 3 .....................923
1948- 49 .................... 32 .................... 2 .....................941
1949- 50 .................... 25 .................... 5 .....................833
1950- 51 .................... 32 .................... 2 .....................941
1951- 52 .................... 29 .................... 3 .....................906
1952- 53 .................................................. (No schedule played)
1953- 54 .................... 25 .................... 0 ....................1.000
1954- 55 .................... 23 .................... 3 .....................885
1955- 56.................... 20 .................... 6 .....................769
1956- 57 .................... 23 .................... 5 .....................821
1957- 58 .................... 23 .................... 6 .....................790
1958- 59 .................... 24 .................... 3 .....................889
1959- 60 .................... 18 .................... 7 .....................720
1960- 61 .................... 19 .................... 9 .....................678
1961- 62 .................... 23 .................... 3 .....................884
32-Year Total .......... 668 ................ 125 .....................842
MILESTONES IN THE RUPP RECORD
Victory No. 100  Dec. 9, 1936 Victory No. 200  Jan. 9, 1943 Victory No. 300  Jan. 25, 1947 Victory No. 400  Feb. 4, 1950 Victory No. 500  Dec. 22, 1954 Victory No. 600  Jan. 29, 1959
Georgetown (Ky.) (H) 46-21 Xavier (A) 43-38 Xavier (H) 71-34 Mississippi (A) 61-55 La Salle (H) 63-54 Georgia (H) 108-55
14 HARRY LANCASTER
Assistant Coach
When Harry Lancaster finds a spare moment to reflect on his days as an all-around star athlete at Georgetown (Ky.) College back in the early thirties, he can recall with a degree of dismay how close he came to never pursuing the "round oall" sport that in the days since has earned him a highly respected position in the basketball world.
An All-Conference halfback for three straight years and captain during his last two seasons, Lancaster's football career almost overshadowed his play on the basketball court. In the cage sport, he was equally successfulwith three All-Conference nominations and two team captaincies to his creditbut considered himself a better football player than eager. Experience, however, proved him a good student and teacher of the sport of basketball as he began his coaching career and he now has no regrets over the choice he made.
Born in Paris, Ky., in 1911, Lancaster attended Paris High School where he played four years in all sports Following graduation in 1928, he continued his athletic career at Georgetown College and gained star recognition in football, basketball and baseball. After finishing at Georgetown in '32, Harry remained on for the next school year as an assistant coach in both the grid and cage sports before moving into the high school field. He coached several sports, mostly basketball, for nine years and was a high school principal for six years before coming to the University of Kentucky in 1942 as an instructor in physical education. Soon thereafter, the war intervened and Lancaster saw 26 months' Navy duty, rising from apprentice seaman to Lieutenant (Senior Grade).
Returning to UK in March, 1946, he became a part-time assistant to the Wildcats' famous cage mentor, Adolph Rupp, in addition to carrying on his teaching duties and gaining his master's degree. Two
15 years later, he became Coach Rupp's general right hand man in a full-time capacity. Lancaster also served as Kentucky's baseball coach in 1946-47 and picked up the assignment again starting with the 1951 campaign.
In addition to his coaching duties, Lancaster manages to sandwich in a large slice of traveling. Besides checking on the nation's best high school cagers as potential material for future Wildcat national champion crews, his travel stems from a plan to extensively scout upcoming opponents. Coach Rupp was one of the first in the country to inaugurate this wide-spread scouting system in basketball and believes it has contributed materially to Kentucky's past success in carrying off