University of Kansas where he played guard under the firey Phog Allen. Following graduation in 1923, he coached high school ball one year at Marshalltown, Iowa, and then at Freeport, III., for four seasons before coming to Kentucky in 1930.
Although the competition was nowhere near as rugged as the schedules played by today's nationally-recognized Wildcat brigades, Rupp's very first team complied a respectable 1 5-3 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 eight in 1940-41, but even that year was a winning campaign (17-8) and the remarkably low average number of losses per season in the Rupp Era is three.
Today, when one thinks of the sport of basketball, one thinks of Kentucky and Adolph Ruppone of the greatest fundamental teachers the game has even seen and truly a maker of champions.
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