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confidence by not asserting themselves more in the game.
"They were too tentative," said Wesley, who scored 12 points. "They have to get physical."
Watkins agreed.
"To be honest with you. they just aren't physical at all. Ellis, now. he came at you. But that other guy. (Mike) Scott, he's not, to be honest with you, physical at all. The whole team isn't. In the SEC you have to be physical. Kentucky should have drilled us in the ground."
Northwestern probably won the game with a late rush in the first half. Williams, a senior who saw his team lose by 18 at Rupp when he was a freshman, hit a three-pointer, and Mike Thornton scored over Scott to cut it to 41-36 at halftime. Guard Pernell Smith hit a jumper to open the second half and the Demons were in the game to stay.
Ellis scored the 'Cats' first six points of the second half but the 6-11 center couldn't do it alone.
Freshman guard Chris Mills suffered through a horrible shooting night (three of 13) and picked up three first-half fouls, as did
Miller and Ellis.
"We finally did some things that got us up and down the floor." said Bell of the late first-half explosion. "If we have to run our half-court offense we aren't a very good basketball team. We can't get good shots that way. It was a definite momentum-builder."
RAVFORD AND SMITH LED the Demons with 21 points each and Wesley had 12. ' ~C
But Mills, the sensational freshman, chipped in with only six points as Hanson and Farmer supported Ellis with 10 each.
"He (Mills) didn't step up and play," said Wesley. "He's a big-time player but big-time players have to realize they have to come to play every night. We're going to come at you."
Farmer, who logged 20 minutes of playing time, looked good. Not great, but, with more FT (playing time), his confidence should grow. But he has to rid himself of that habit of glancing over to the Wildcat bench after a shot or drive...as if expecting the worst.
"Farmer, the Mr. Kentucky Basketball." said Watkins. "he's going to be OK. But he had some open shots he didn't take. I think he can help them a lot."
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L.tfen To The Editor
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doesn't want to be the "fall guy" for a program that was under fire before he arrived. Sure he screwed up and gave Billy Reed an exclusive interview. The bright side is it could have been Dick Vitale (this guy really loves us).
Premature conjecture and personal
Russell Rice
remakes will not help this young team at this stage. We need to let the process work. We'll know in a few months what the answers really are for many questions. There w ill be no winners, many losers, few survivorsthe program will survive.
Louis S. Eaton Charlottesville, Va.
P.S.If you are looking for the sophomore player with big-time written all over him, it's Cory Reeves at Corbin.
Northwestern State's Terrence Rayford, posting up on Mike Scott, says Kentucky wasn't physical enough.
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in the Mideast Regional by Ohio University 85-69 and Loyola (Chicago) 100-91, both featuring black stars.
When the Wildcats finished 15-12 the following year, fans began to speculate that perhaps Rupp had lost his touch. He answered the critics with Rupp's Runts (1965-66). a team that lost only to Tennessee at Knox- . ville in regular season and advanced all the way to the NCAA championship game before falling to black-dominated Texas Western.
That successful season put Rupp in the driver's seat once again, but his stock dropped when the 1966-67 Wildcats, featuring holdover All-Americans Pat Riley and Louie Dampier, finished 13-13, worst record ever for a Rupp-coached team.
While the football people wailed that Oswald's academic stance was dooming their program, Rupp and Lancaster also were paranoid about the new president. As Lancaster explained in his book, Adolph Rupp As I Knew Him, as told to Cawood Ledford (Lexington Productions, Inc., 1979):
"I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW we came up with the idea, but we both were absolutely sure that Oswald was going to turn the university into a graduate school. We talked about it a lot. We thought we would have the players for about two years then they would be in graduate school. It would have ruined our program. Of course, nothing ever came of it."
Meanwhile, Oswald and Johnson kept the pressure on Rupp to integrate the basketball team. His answer was that he would sign a black player as soon as he could find one that was sure to start. He didn't want him sitting on the bench. Oswald told him the blacks could sit right there on the bench with the white players.
After the death of Shively, Oswald named Johnson interim director of athletics and stepped up the pressure on Rupp. During that six-month interim, the department mostly was under the management of Louise Gilchrist, who for many years had served as administrative assistant to Shively.
As the Bradshaw and Lancaster forces vied for the top position in the department, Oswald and Johnson quietly went about recruiting Dr. William B. McCubbin, a former Wildcat football player who then was head of the physical education department at Virginia Tech.
A native of Louisville, McCubbin had lettered three years (1937, '38, '39) in football and two years (1940, '41) in baseball for the Wildcats. As a bombadier in World War II, he won the Distinguished Flying Cross with two
Oak Leaf Clusters, attaining .ihe rank, of lieutenant colonel.
McCubbin earned his master's at UK in 1947 and was awarded a doctorate by Peabody College in 1956. His first coaching experience was assisting Shively in 1945 and later as a part-time freshman assistant and scout for Bryant.
In 1951, he was intramural director at UK as well as freshman football end coach, wrestling instructor and teacher of five physical education classes. He was academic supervisor on Bradshaw's initial staff in 1962, before leaving for Blacksburg. Two years later, UK nominated him for the NCAA Silver Anniversary All-America Award.
WHEN RUPP RECEIVED WORD through the grapevine that Oswald and Johnson not only had hand-picked McCubbin as their choice for his new boss, but also were helping the former football player find a house in Lexington, he was faced with the following choices:
1. Did he want to be bossed by a "football man?"
2. Did he want the position?
3. Did he want to be bossed by his former assistant?
The answer to No. 1 was an emphatic "No!" "What makes Bradshaw think he ought to be AD?" Rupp had asked Lancaster. "How is he qualified? He can't even win any football games."
With that obstacle out of the way, Rupp suddenly was faced with the prospect of another football man in the big seat. He immediatly got on the horn, calling up past dues, and was pleased when the Board of Trustees tabled the screening committee's recommendation of McCubbin.
In answer to No. 2, Lancaster claims Rupp wanted the job.
After No. 3 became a reality upon the appointment of Lancaster as acting AD in June of 1968, Lancaster went across the hall in Memorial Coliseum to tell his old boss the news.
"What in the hell do you want to be athletics director for?" Rupp asked. "Nobody will know who you are. I don't know any ADs in our conference."
"Adolph," Lancaster replied, "if I had wanted to be well known, I'd not have worked for you all these years."
?NEXT WEEK: Harry Lancaster's road to the top spot in UK athletics begins when he scores the first field goal for Georgetown as the Tigers help the University of Kentucky usher in what was to become known as the Rupp Era.
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just get more playing time. What's even worse is that many of their fouls can be classified as "dumb." There's only so much you can write off to being a freshman.
One example: Against Northwestern, Ellis missed a short jumper and then tried to slap the ball away from the Demon rebounder. The result? His third foul of the first half, which put him on the bench for the final 5:24. UK's lead went from 11 to 5 during that time and set the stage for North western's second-half comeback.
Miller, Hanson and Mills all start and are arguably the team's top three players. UK can ill afford for any of them to be sitting on the bench in foul trouble, but that is something the Cats have had to face almost every game.
Aggressive, hard-working fouls are OK; dumb, impatient fouls are not.
CONGRATULATIONS CONTINUE TO roll in for the football Wildcats' Randy Holleran, Chris Chenault and Oliver Barnett. All three were recently honored by being named honorable mention Associated Press All-Americans.
Two of the Southeastern Conference's premier linebackers, Keith DeLong of Tennessee and Derrick Thomas of Alabama, also proved they were among the best in the nation by making the AP first team. They knocked Holleran off some All-SEC first teams, but they won't be able to do that next season. Holleran will only be a junior.