xt7ttd9n3s1w https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7ttd9n3s1w/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky 1954 Memorial Coliseum, Lexington (Ky.) 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 Programs (Men) UKAW University of Kentucky Men's Basketball (1953-1954) University of Kentucky Invitational Tournament (December 21-22, 1954) programs players coaches Rupp, Adolph Memorial Coliseum schedules rosters LaSalle University University of Utah University of Southern California "University of Kentucky Invitational Tournament: LaSalle College, University of Utah, Southern California, University of Kentucky", December 21-22, 1954 text "University of Kentucky Invitational Tournament: LaSalle College, University of Utah, Southern California, University of Kentucky", December 21-22, 1954 1954 2012 true xt7ttd9n3s1w section xt7ttd9n3s1w UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
Invitational Tournament
DECEMBER 21-22, 1954
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Official Kentucky Basketball Program
Published by U.K. Athletics Association
B. A. SHIVELY, Athletic Director KEN KUHN, Sports Publicity Editor
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Welcome to the second annual University of Kentucky Invitational Basketball Tournament.
It is always a very real pleasure to welcome friends of the University from throughout the state and athletics fans from many other areas and invite them to take the time to look about our beautiful campus during their visit.
Hundreds of thousands of persons visit the University of Kentucky each year for athletics events, concerts, lectures, conventions and other programs. I sincerely believe that you, like others before you, will find our campus an interesting and friendly place.
We also wish to extend a sportsman-like welcome tonight to the fine basketball teams, and their followers, from LaSalle College, Southern California, and University of Utah. I trust that they will receive our utmost respect, courtesy and hospitality.
May we always bear in mind the sacrifices of those to whose memory this Coliseum is dedicated and pledge ourselves to a standard of conduct worthy of these honored dead.
H. L. DONOVAN President
page six FRONT ROW (left to right)Clarence Simpson (Scout and Statistician), Jack Crowe, Morris Buckwalter, Gordon Jensen, Roger Tonnesen, Billy Maxwell, Curtis Jenson, Eddie Pepple. BACK ROW Head Coach Jack Gardner, DeLyle Condie, Pete Dow, Bob Fulton, Gary Bergen, Alden Lewis, Art Bunte, Jerry McCleary, Asst. Coach Frank Brickey.
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ROSTER
No.	Nome Pos.	Class	Age	Ht.	Wt.	Hometown
3	Eddie Pepple (g)	Sr.	22	5'9"	160	Seattle, Wash.
4	De Lyle Condie (f)	Soph.	20	6'4"	175	Preston, Ida.
10	Roger Tonnesen (f)	Sr.	20	5'11"	160	Salt Lake, Utah
11	Gordon Jensen (g)	Jr.	19	6'2"	190	Aurora, Utah
12	Billy Maxwell (g)	Jr.	20	6'1"	175	Salt Lake, Utah
14	Morris Buckwalter (g)	Jr.	20	6'3"	185	La Grande, Ore.
15	John Crowe (g)	Jr.	23	6'2"	165	Riverside, III.
20	Pete Dow (c)	Jr.	20	6'4"	195	Sandy, Utah
21	Ted Berner (f)	Soph.	20	6'3"	180	Watertown, S. D
30	Curtis Jenson (g)	Soph.	19	5'10"	165	Sandy, Utah
31	Art Bunte (c)	Jr.	21	6'3"	225	Denver, Colo.
32	Gary Bergen (f)	Jr.	21	6'8"	212	Provo, Utah
34	Alden Lewis (c)	Sr.	23	6'5"	190	Salt Lake, Utah
35	Jerry McCleary (g)	Soph.	19	6'2"	190	Midvale, Utah
COACHJack Gardner (11 yrs.-won 159, lost 95) CAPTAINRoger Tonnesen (10)
page seven LoSALLE'S SCORECARD
(Complete Roster on Poge 13)
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page nine Holiday Cage Festival
The University of Kentucky Invitational Basketball Tournament represents an attempt to provide athletics patrons with cage competition of the highest calibre and re-express the ideal of an abiding faith in the value of intercollegiate athletics as an instrument in promoting friendly relations.
Selection of the teams to take part in the annual tourney is based on considerations of national reputation in cage circles, potential calibre of play expected and the desire to give the holiday meet an inter-sectional flavor with a top team representing various parts of the country. The tournament originated a year ago as the result of an increasingly-popular trend toward the scheduling of holiday tournaments and round-robin meets in college-controlled arenas and the UKIT is the first tournament of a national scope ever presented in Lexington.
The inaugural two-night, four-team tournament last year, played before capacity audiences, saw host Kentucky smash LaSalle, 73-60, for the championship and UCLA take the consolation title from Duke.
The stellar lineup of four of the nation's top cage powers participating in the 1954 Kentucky tournament surpasses in calibre virtually every other basketball tournament held since the Olympic Trials of 1948 due to the prospect of a rematch between Kentucky and LaSalle a "dream game" that would pair off the defending undefeated national champion Wildcats against the 1954 NCAA Tournament Champion Explorers in a tilt that could virtually decide this season's collegiate title.
Both of the other teams in this year's U.K. Invitational also are ranked high in the national polls. Utah, the Skyline Conference powerhouse that furnishes Kentucky's opening night opposition, is placed 13th in the United Press rankings and 15th in the poll conducted by the Associated Press. Southern California's "darkhorse" Trojans, initial opponent of LaSalle, rates 15th in the UP list and just out of the top 20 on the AP chart.
page ten Gayle Rose, Jerry Bird, Bob Burrow, Coach Adolph Rupp, Phil Grawemeyer, Bill Evans, and Linville Puck
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ROSTER
No.	Name Pos.	Class	Age	Hr.	Wr.	Hometown
10	Dan Chandler (g)	Jr.	19	5'11"	160	Versailles, Ky.
20	*Gayle Rose (g)	Sr.	22	6'	170	Paris, Ky.
22	*Jerry Bird (f-c)	Jr.	19	6'6"	200	Corbin, Ky.
33	*Linville Puckett (g)	Jr.	21	6'	165	Winchester, Ky.
40	Earl Adkins (f-g)	Soph.	21	6'3"	190	Ashland, Ky.
42	*Bill Evans (g-f)	Sr.	22	6'1"	170	Berea, Ky.
44	*Phil Grawemeyer (f)	Jr.	20	67"	180	Louisville, Ky.
50	Bob Burrow (c)	Jr.	20	67"	215	Wells, Texas
55	Ray Mills (f)	Soph.	21	6'4"	185	Manchester, Ky.
60	Gerry Calvert- (g)	Soph.	19	5'11"	165	Maysville, Ky.
66	*Bill Bibb (f)	Jr.	20	6'4"	190	Owensboro, Ky.
70	Charles Hadden (g)	Jr.	21	5'11"	175	Lexington, Ky.
77	Harold Hurst (c)	Jr.	20	67"	190	Waltersville, Ky.
80	John Brewer (g)	Soph.	19	6'3"	170	Anchorage, Ky.
88	Paul Corum (g)	Soph.	19	5'10"	160	Midway, Ky.
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COACHAdolph Rupp (24 yrs.won 496, lost 82) CAPTAINBill Evans (42)
page eleven FRONT ROW (left to right)Jack Mount, Ralph Pausig, Chet Carr, Dick Welsh (co-captain), Roy Irvin (co-captain), Jim Kaufman, Jack Dunne, Tony Psaltis. BACK ROWPinky Thompson, freshman coach; Willis O "Bill" Hunter, director of athletics; Dick Hammer, assistant varsity coach: Danny Rogers, Denny White, Jack Findley, Al Ludecke, Jim Sterkel, Jack Lo/rich, Mike Leaskou, Dick Nagai, Bruce Dorsey, senior manager; Forrest Twogood, head coach.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROSTER
No.	Name Pos.	Class	Ht.	Wt.	Hometown
11	Mike Leaskou (g)	Soph.	6'lVz"	195	San Francisco, Calif
12	Tony Psaltis (f)	Jr.	6'3"	200	San Francisco, Calif
13	Chet Carr (g)	Sr.	6'VA"	189	Benicia, Calif.
14	Jack Dunne (f)	Jr.	6'3"	185	San Gabriel, Calif.
16	Jack Lovrich (c)	Jr.	6'SW	180	San Pedro, Calif.
18	Jim Kaufman (f)	Soph.	6'4"	193	Los Angeles, Calif.
19	Roy Irvin (c)	Sr.	6'5i/2"	213	Montebello, Calif.
21	Dick Welsh (g)	Sr.	6'2W	182	Ontario, Calif.
22	Al Ludecke (c)	Sr.	6'4"	194	Monrovia, Calif.
23	Jack Findley (f)	Sr.		191	Los Angeles, Calif.
25	Denney White (f)	Sr.	6'2"	165	Hollywood, Calif.
27	Jack Mount (g)	Soph.	6W2"	148	San Gabriel, Calif.
28	Dick Nagai (g)	Jr.	6'	158	Los Angeles, Calif.
31	Ralph Pausig (f)	Jr.	6'2"	190	Oshkosh, Wis.
COACHForrest Twogood (10 yrs.won 160, lost 133) CO-CAPTAINSRoy Irvin (19) and Dick Welsh (21)
page twelve FRONT ROW (left to right)Charles Singley, Robert Maples, Francis O'Malley, Alonzo Lewis, Joseph MIDDLE ROWTrainer Mario Vetere, Manuel Gomez, Thomas Gola, John Yodsnukis, Walter Fredricks, Ken Loeffler. BACK ROWManager William Bickley, Robert Ames, John Gola, Charles Greenberg, Kraemer, Frank Blatcher, Manager Leo Murphy.
LaSALLE COLLEGE ROSTER
No.	Name Pos.	Class	Age	Hr.	Wt.	Hometown
4	Fran O'Malley (f)	Jr.	20	6'3"	180	Carbondale, Pa.
5	Alonzo Lev/is (g)	Soph.	19	6'2"	187	Darby, Pa.
6	Bob Kraemer (g)	Soph.	19	6'3"	180	Philadelphia, Pa.
7	Bob Ames (f)	Jr.	20	6'3"	181	Philadelphia, Pa.
8	Manuel Gomez (c)	Jr.	20	6'5"	190	Forest Hills, L. 1.
9	Walt Fredricks (f)	Soph.	19	6'6"	190	Springfield, Pa.
10	Charles Singiey (f)	Jr.	19	6'3"	175	Philadelphia, Pa.
11	Charles Greenberg (g)	Jr.	21	6'2"	175	Philadelphia, Pa.
12	John Yodsnukis (c)	Jr.	23	6'7"	209	Warrior Run, Pa.
14	Bob Maples (g)	Jr.	24	6'5"	175	Elmhurst, III.
15	Tom Gola (c)	Sr.	21	67"	210	Philadelphia, Pa.
16	Joe Gibson (c)	Sr.	21	6'4"	185	Philadelphia, Pa.
17	Frank Blatcher (g)	Jr.	24	6'2"	190	Philadelphia, Pa.
COACHKenneth D. Loeffler (19 yrs.won 271, lost 166)
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