football, basketball and baseball for tliroc years and twice captained the football and basketball teams. He was Student Body president and president of Kappa Alpha Social Fraternity his senior year.
He served as assistant football and basketball coach at Georgetown College (1932-33) and Paris High School (1933-34), head basketball coach at Bagdad High School (1934-36) and principal and coach at (lleneyne High School (1936-42).
Lancaster earned his master's degree in 1943 while serving as a part-time assistant in basketball and full-time instructor in Physical Education from Sept. 1942 until March 1944, when he entered the U.S. Navy as a Seaman 2/c. He advanced to lieutenant (SG) and returned to the University in March, 1946, in time to assist Rupp in winning UK's four NCAA basketball championships of 1948-49-51 and '58.
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In his own right, Lancaster has traveled extensively and received a signal honor when he was invited to prepare the Greek National Basketball Team for the 1968 Olympics. A return six-week tour in Athens was cancelled when Lancaster was asked to stay home and serve as acting athletics chief of staff.
Lancaster had traveled to Greece in the summer of 1951 on a special athletic assignment for the U.S. State Department. The mission called for him to act as an advisor to Greek Basketball Federation officials in Olympic procedures and other matters. He also conducted numerous clinics and coaching schools and gave public lectures on the cage sport. During the summer of 1962, he helped Coach Rupp conduct clinics for Army personnel in the Far East Theater and worked with Rupp on the team's Middle East Tour in 1966 and a clinic in Germany in the summer of 1967.
CLIFFORD O. HAGAN. Assistant Director of Athletics
Cliff Hagan became Assistant Director of Athletics at his Alma Mater June 1, 1972. After a glittering basketball career, during which he was twice a consensus AU-American at UK and a five time All-Pro with the St. Louis Hawks of the NBA, he returned to Lexington in 1970 and went into private business. He later became President of a successful restaurant chain, Cliff Hagan Ribeyc, Inc.
During Hagan's college career, the Wildcats won 86 of 91 games and the 1951 NCAA championship. He was co-captain of the 1954 team, which with a 25-0 record, became the University's second unbeaten team.
A native of Owensboro, Ky., Hagan gained immortality in Kentucky High School annals when he scored a then-record 41 points in the final game of the 1949 State Tournament to give the Red Devils the championship over Lexington Lafayette. During a 10-year career at St. Louis, the Hawks won the NBA Western Division six times and defeated the Boston Celtics in 1958 for the World Championship. He joined the Dallas Chaparrals as player-coach in 1968 and was selected as Texas Professional Coach-of-the-Year. He wound up his playing career only 92 points shy of a career total 15,000 points.
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