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.
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