xt79057cs13b https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt79057cs13b/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky 1952 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 (1951-1952) UK vs. Ole Miss (February 6, 1952) Memorial Coliseum players coaches Rupp, Adolph rosters schedules programs Kentucky (Wildcats) vs. Ole Miss (Rebels), February 6, 1952 text Kentucky (Wildcats) vs. Ole Miss (Rebels), February 6, 1952 1952 2012 true xt79057cs13b section xt79057cs13b OFFICIAL PROGRAM - 10 CENTS
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
MEMORIAL COLISEUM
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ANY STORY OF A MAN who began "on a shoestring" and moved along to acquire a financial empire has a parallel in the story of University of Kentucky basketball. The first quintet at U.K. was a one-basketball outfit, and the ball used for all practice and games was furnished by the players, who chipped in a quarter or a half-dollar apiece to buy the heavy little balloon. Basketball appeared on the campus soon after the turn of the century, the game itself then very, very young. The school made no provision for a coach, but a gymnasium had been provided perhaps with no such specific purpose in mind when Barker Hall was erected and placed in use in 1902. The south end of the new structure housed what has since become known as Buell Armory, where cadets drilled on a dirt floor. In the other wing was a shiny new gymnasium.
Kentucky's first recognized varsity hoop team, according to available records, played only two games in the season of 1904-05 and broke even. The pioneering cagers participated in 12 games the following season. Thomson R. Bryant, now Assistant Director of Agricultural Extension at U.K., was one of the first varsity hoopsters. Dick Barbee was another. Finally, a duly designated basketball coach came along, for the season of 1907-08, in the person of one W. H. Mustaine.
Many of the players in the first decade or so of Kentucky basketball were survivors of those rugged early-day gridiron altercations on near-by Stoll Field, who mostly turned to the new game for a little fun and exercise during the winter months, but the sport had established itself in its own right by the time a U.K. team captured the Southern collegiate championship in a tournament in Atlanta in 1921.
A Lexingtonian, Bill King, cashed the free throw that nipped Georgia 20-19 in the final contest there, bringing the first of many championships earned by U.K. in basketball and spurring public clamor for a better court. The first gym, which for the last 20 years has been known as the women's gymnasium, was the scene of several of the early state high school basketball tournaments although having room for only three or four hundred spectators. Alumni Gymnasium, then viewed as a huge structure, was used first in 1924-25, and many wondered whether its 2,800 seats would ever be needed.
It seemed particularly fitting to most that the first Kentucky team to use the spacious new gymnasium was composed largely of Capt. Jimmy Mc-Farland, Will Milward, Burgess Carey, and Lovell (Cowboy) Underwood, all of whom had been regulars on the team that brought the national high school championship in 1922 to old Lexington Senior High. Rounding out the first team for that campaign was C. T. (Turkey) Hughes, who was to become the first U.K. athlete earning varsity letters in four sports.
Fairly soon after the appearance on the scene for coaching duty of Adolph Rupp, championships began to come with regularity, crowds began to overflow the "huge" new hall not just occasionally but for most of the games. Alumni Gymnasium had been badly outgrown long before it could be abandoned at the start of the 1950-51 campaign for the world's handsomest basketball hall, Memorial Coliseum a climax in a story of success from a shoestring start.LARRY SHROPSHIRE.
10 Code of Sportsmanship
We, the students of the University of Kentucky, having an abiding faith in the value of intercollegiate athletics as an instrument in promoting friendly relations among universities, do adopt this code of sportsmanship for this Memorial Coliseum:
1. Winning or losing, an athletics team of the University of Kentucky will have our continued and wholehearted support.
2. We expect our team to measure up to the highest ideals in sportsmanship, and we pledge that our conduct shall be equally as praiseworthy.
3. The visiting team and coaches, and the officials are our guests. As such, they command our respect, courtesy, and hospitality.
4. We shall in all ways abide by the regulations of the University governing the use of the Coliseum.
5. Bearing always in mind the sacrifices of those to whose memory this building is dedicated, we pledge ourselves to a standard of conduct worthy of these honored dead.
6. We call upon all who join us in the support of University of Kentucky athletics teams to join us likewise in support of this code.
The Student Government Association of the University of Kentucky
11 KENTUCKY BASKETBALL SCHEDULE 1951-52
Ky. Opp.
Dec. 8Washington & Lee (H) ..96 46
Dec. 10Xavier (A) .................... 97 72
Dec. 13Minnesota (A) .............. 57 61
Dec. 17St. Johns (H) ................ 81 40
Dec. 20De Paul (H) .................. 98 60
Dec. 26U.C.L.A. (H).................. 84 53
SUGAR BOWL TOURNAMENT
Dec. 28B.Y.U. (A) .................... 84 64
Dec. 29St. Louis (A) ................ 60 61
Jan. 3U. of Mississippi (A) ......116 58
Jan. 5L.S.U. (H) ...................... 57 47
Jan. 7Xavier (H) .................... 83 50
Jan. 12Florida (A) .................... 99 52
Jan. 14Georgia (A) .................. 95 55
(All Home
Ky. Opp.
Jan. 19Tennessee (A) .............. 65 56
Jan. 21Georgia Tech (A) .......... 96 51
Jan. 26Alabama (A) ................ 71 67
Jan. 28Vanderbilt (A) .............. 88 51
Jan. 30Auburn (A) .................. 88 48
Feb. 2Notre Dame .................. Chicago
Feb. 4Tulane$2.00..................Home
Feb. 6U. of Mississippi$2.00....Home
Feb. 9Georgia Tech$2.00........Home
Feb. 11Mississippi State$2.00....Home
Feb. 16Tennessee$2.50 ............ Home
Feb. 21Vanderbilt$2.50............Home
Feb. 23De Paul ............................ Away
Feb. 28, 29
March 1SEC Tournament ...... Louisville
Start at 8 p.m.)
1950-51 KENTUCKY BASKETBALL RECORD
Ky. Opp.
West Texas State ............ (H) 73 43
Purdue .............................. (H) 70 52
Xavier .............................. (A) 67 56
Florida .............................. (H) 85 37
Kansas .............................. (H) 68 39
St. John's.......................... (A) 43 37
SUGAR BOWL TOURNAMENT
St. Louis .......................... (N) 42 43
(Overtime)
Syracuse .......................... (N) 69 59
Auburn ............................ (H) 79 35
DePaul ............................ (H) 63 55
Alabama .......................... (H) 65 48
Notre Dame .................... (H) 69 44
Tennessee ........................ (A) 70 45
Georgia Tech .................... (A) 82 61
Vanderbilt ........................ (A) 74 49
Tulane .............................. (A) 104 68
L. S. U............................. (A) 81 59
Mississippi State .............. (A) 80 60
Mississippi ........................ (A) 86 39
Georgia Tech .................... (H) 75 42
Xavier .............................. (H) 78 51
Tennessee ........................ (H) 86 61
DePaul .............................. (A) 60 57
Georgia ............................ (H) 88 41
Vanderbilt ........................ (H) 89 57
(SEC champions)
SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT
Mississippi State................ (N) 92 70
Auburn ............................ (N) 84 54
Georgia Tech .................... (N) 57 61
Vanderbilt (Finals) ............ 57 67
Post Season Game
Loyola (Chicago) .............. (H) 97 61
NCAA TOURNAMENT
Louisville (at Raleigh, N. C.) 79 68
St. John's (at New York, N. Y.) 59 43
Illinois (at New York, N. Y.) 76 74
(Eastern finals)
Kansas State
(at Minneapolis, Minn.) 68 58 (NCAA champions)
Total .............................. 2540 1783
NCAA Tournament Champions for Third Time (First three-time tournament winner in NCAA history)
SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE Champions for Eighth Consecutive Season
(Annual SEC Tournament did not determine conference championship)
NUMBER ONE TEAM IN NATION by Final Rankings
(Associated PressUnited Press)
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12 ALUMNI GYMNASIUM
THIS BUILDING SERVED AS THE HOME COURT OF UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY BASKETBALL TEAMS FROM 1924 TO 1950 DURING THIS PERIOD AND ON THIS FLOOR TEAMS REPRESENTING THE UNIVERSITY PLAYED 287; GAMES. WINNING 262 AND LOSING 25. FROM 1931 TO 1950 UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
COACH ADOLPH F. RUPP
UNIVERSITY TEAMS ESTABLISHED A HOME RECORD OF 204 VICTORIES AND 8 LOSSES. DURING THE SAME PERIOD THE TEAMS OF COACH RUPP WON EIGHTY-FOUR CONSECUTIVE HOME VICTORIES. 1943 - 1950 SIXTY-FOUR CONSECUTIVE VICTORIES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE. 1945-1950 TWELVE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIPS. 1933-1950 THREE SUGAR BOWL CHAMPIONSHIPS. 1939. 1940. 1950 THE NATIONAL INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP. 1946 TWO NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIPS. 1948. 1949 '| THE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONSHIP. LONDON, ENGLAND. 1948 J
TO COMMEMORATE THESE UNPARALLELED ACHIEVEMENTS THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY THE
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
DECEMBER 9, 1950
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Washington & Lee Dec. 8
St. John's Dec. 17
DePaul ............................ Dec. 20
! U.C.L.A.......................... Dec. 26
LS.U............................... Jan. 5
i Xavier Jan. 7
Tulane ............................ Feb. 4
U. of Mississippi.............. Feb. 6
Georgia Tech .................. Feb. 9
Mississippi State Feb. 11
Tennessee........................ Feb. 16
Vanderbilt ...................... Feb. 21
SEC Tournament ............ Mar. 1
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*VILLANOVA ............... Sept. 20
*OLE MISS..................... Sept. 27
TEXAS A&M ................ Oct. 4
LS.U............................. Oct. 11
*MISSISSIPPI STATE Oct. 18
CINCINNATI .............. Oct. 25
MIAMI (Fla.) ................ Oct. 31
TULANE ....................... Nov. 8
*GEO. WASHINGTON Nov. 15
TENNESSEE Nov. 22
*FLORIDA .................... Nov. 29
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