Kentucky's Rupp
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Coach Adolph Rupp of Kentucky, rated for years among the nation's top basketball coaches, recently returned from Europe, where he assisted the United States Army in the development of a sports and recreation program for soldiers overseas.
The Kentucky "colonel" is now in his 16th year as coach of the famed Kentucky Wildcats, who have ranked year after year as one of the top basketball aggregations in the nation.
Rupp, who  divides  his time between basketball and farming, started developing winning basketball teams for Kentucky in 1930.   In 1944, he won   the highest honor in the basketball   world,  election    to the basketball hall of fame. He was the 10th     coach so honored    in the history    of the court sport.
In the last 15 seasons, the fast-breaking, hard -driving, accurate-shooting Kentucky Cats have won 255 games, while losing but 62, an average of better than 80 per cent and probably the best record of any major basketball team in the United States.
The 1944-45 Kentucky team won 22 games, and captured the Southeastern Conference tournament for the second consecutive year. Rupp's teams have won eight conference titles, annexing the honor in 1933, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1944 and 1945.
During one period overlapping two seasons, the Rupp-men won 24 consecutive victories and, over a five-year period his team won 45 straight conference encounters.
Since Rupp, the Baron of Kentucky basketball, has been at the University, the Wildcats have lost but eight games on their home floor.
Coach Rupp is as colorful as the teams he produces. He plays the game to win, and he instills that spirit into the men who fight for Kentucky victories.
Every game is a nightmare to the Kentucky coachuntil the final whistle sounds. Then, Rupp relaxes and, usually, is able to tell the boys what a good game they played.
The coach is a native of Halstead, Kan., where he captained his high school basketball team. At the University of Kansas, from which he was graduated in 1923, he played under Dr. Phog Allen. After graduation from Kansas, he coached for one year in the high school at Marshalltown, Iowa, and then at Freeport, 111., for four years. His teams at Freeport won 72 games and lost only nine.
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