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2   Governmental Officials
Governor of the CommonwealthJulian M. Carroll and Mayor of Lexington-Fayette County GovernmentJames G. Amato and the Urban County Council.
4   University of Kentucky
President Dr. Otis A. Singletary and Athletic Director Cliff Hagan; UK's athletics department and coaching staff.
7   1978 NCAA Champions12 players that comprise the current national champions.
22   Feature of the WeekA look at the world of Kentucky basketball. 24 Scorecard
Keep up with the actiontally field goals, free throws and personal fouls. 33 Opponent
Meet tonight's visiting team, coaches, and players. Also, here is general information about the school and its administration.
40 The Last Time, SEC This Week
An account of Kentucky's most recent game with tonight's opponent and a schedule of SEC action.
41 UK Sports Information Department
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46 Code of Sportsmanship
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JAMES G. AMATO took office as mayor on January 2, 1978. In doing so, he became the second mayor of the consolidated city and county governments.
A native of Lexington, Amato has been a practicing attorney since 1964. He is a member of the Fayette County Bar Association, the Kentucky Bar Association, and the Kentucky Law Enforcement. He formerly held positions as Alcoholic Beverage Control Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Director of Citizens for Judicial Improvement, Inc., Municipal Court Judge and City Prosecutor.
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The mayor is elected on a non-partisan ballot every four years. He is assisted principally by the Chief Administrative Officer and commissioners of the six departments.
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Born in McCracken County in 1931, he attended Paducah Junior College after graduating from Heath High School. He was graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1954 and received his law degree from UK in 1956. Before be-coming governor, Carroll served three years as lieutenant governor and ten years as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
He is currently chairman of the National Governors' Association, the first Kentucky Governor to hold that post. He is an active member of the Optimist Club and a former Jaycee. He attained the highest office in Kentucky for laymen of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1966-77 when he was named moderator of the Kentucky Synod.
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Dr. Otis A. Singletary University of Kentucky President
Now in his ninth year as president of the University of Kentucky, DR. OTIS A. SINGLETARY is a Mississippian whose route to the Bluegrass State curled through Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina and Washington, D. C.
He came to Lexington from a position as University of Texas vice-chancellor for academic affairs. Previously, in Washington, he had been director of the U. S. Job Corps in the early stages of its development before moving to the American Council on Education as vice-president. He had gone to the capital in 1964 after three years as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The UNC appointment terminated Dr. Singletary's first association with the University of Texas, this a seven-year stay that saw him, as a young historian, rise rapidly in rank from instructor to full professor and begin the shift to administrative work, first as associate dean and later as assistant to the president.
The Kentucky president, and his wife the former Gloria Walton, met when both were students at Millsaps College. He later earned master's and doctoral degrees at Louisiana State. The Single-tarys have two daughters, Bonnie and Kendall, and a son, Scott.
Cliff Hagan Director of Athletics
"I've been preparing for this all mv life," CLIFF HAGAN said before taking over as athletics director at the University of Kentucky in 1975. Hagan succeeded Harry Lancaster as director after serving as assistant director for three years.
Hagan's path to the athletics directorship began in Owensboro, Kentucky, where he established a then state high school tournament record of 41 points in leading Ovvensboro to victory over Lafayette in the championship game of the 1949 high school tournament.
At UK, he played on teams that won S6 of 91 games and an NCAA championship (1951). The 1954 team, undefeated in 25 games, elected not to participate in the national tournament.
Under his leadership, the UK athletics department continues to develop success in all areas of endeavor including a strong dedication to the academic well-being of the athletes.
 JOE B. HALL
LEONARD HAMILTON is beginning his fifth year at Kentucky after serving three years as assistant coach at Austin Peay. An outstanding recruiter with seemingly tireless energy, Hamilton has contributed heavily to maintaining a high level of young talent at UK. Specializing in coaching defense, Hamilton has had a positive impact on Wildcat defensive
JOE DEAN, JR., played against the Wildcats for three years at Mississippi State University, before serving as Bulldog assistant coach while earning a masters degree in physical education. An outstanding student, Dean was named to the 1976 Academic All-SEC second team. A native of Baton Rouge,
Joe B. Hall University of Kenlucky WiIdeats Head Basketball Coach
JOE B. HALL is beginning his seventh season as mentor of the Wildcats, coming off a year in which his senior dominated team captured the 197S NCAA Championship. Since becoming head coach in 1972, succeeding the legendary Adolph F. Rupp, Hall has accumulated a record of 135 wins against 42 losses. His eleven year coaching record stands at 211-98. Broken down, it shows a 57-50 five year mark at Regis College, a 19-6 record at Central Missouri, and a 135-42 record at UK.
Hall became Rupp's top assistant in 1969 when Harry C. Lancaster was named athletics director. His record as freshmen coach was 60-15, including an undefeated (22-0) season (1971-72) which resulted in the Kittens being crowned National Freshmen Champions by Basketball News.
A popular personality on the clinic and convention circuits, Hall also has had much international exposure. In addition to the Globetrotters tour in 1951, and the "Down Under" tour in 1974, he has helped conduct basketball clinics for the U. S. Army in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska (1968) and at Ramstein Air Base in Frankfurt, Germany and the RAF Base at Mildenhall, England in 1975. He also was Olympic Trials coach under Hank Iba at the Air Force Academy in July 1972 and was a member of the 1976 Olympic Basketball Committee. In 1978 he coached the U.S.A. team that hosted the first International Invitational Tournament.
philosophy. A native of Gastonia, N. C, he lettered three years in football and twice in basketball. An outstanding collegiate player, he starred at Gaston Community College in Dallas, N. C, and at University of Tennessee-Martin. He is married to the former Claudette Hale. They have a son, Lenny, 7.
La., he attended Baton Rouge High School where he earned letters in basketball and football. In addition to regular coaching duties with the Wildcats, Dean's primary responsibilities will be recruiting and scouting. He is married to the former Ellen Elizabeth Anger of Jackson, Miss.
DICK PARSONS
DICK PARSONS, in his seventh year as Joe B. Hall's No. 1 assistant, returned to the University as baseball coach in 1969. Before giving up his position to join the basketball staff on a full time basis, he molded a baseball team (1971) which established or tied 15 school records. He is a graduate of UK where he played guard under former Coach Adolph F. Rupp.
Parsons came to the University in 195S after an outstanding career as a four-sports star at Harlan High School, where he had a three-year basketball scoring total of 1,276 points.
He was a two-time (1960-61) recipient of the coveted A. B. Chandler award, given annually for the player best exemplifying the qualities of leadership, scholarship, character and ability. Only four other Wildcats have twice been so honored since the award was originated in 1951.
He is married to the former Celia Cawood of Harlan. They have a daughter, Kathv, and a son, Ed.
5 FRANK HAM Assistant Director of Athletics
FRANK HAM became Assistant Director of Athletics in July 1975 soon after Cliff Hagan succeeded Harry C. Lancaster as Director of Athletics.
A native of Scranton, Pa., Ham came to the University in 1969 as Administrative Assistant to football coach John Ray, and was reassigned to the Athletic Director's staff in 1972 when Ray resigned.
Ham graduated from high school at Niles, Michigan, and completed his undergraduate work at Olivet College. He did graduate work at Indiana University and coached high school football and track at John Adams High in South Bend in 1944-46 and then returned to Olivet as athletic director and head football and basketball coach.
In 1951, he became assistant to the president at Olivet, with responsibilities in public and alumni relations. He was in private business from 1954 until 1968.
SUSAN FEAMSTER Assistant Director of Athletics
SUE FEAMSTER joined the athletics association July 1 with the merger of the men's and women's programs. Feamster had been the director of women's athletics prior to her appointment as assistant director of athletics.
A native of Frankfort, she came to the
University as a graduate student in 1970, was named assistant director of campus recreation in 1972 and director of women's athletics in 1974.
Feamster graduated from Franklin County High School where she was an outstanding tennis player and athlete. While in college she earned letters in tennis, field hockey, basketball and track from Indiana University and Kentucky State University, where she earned her B.S. degree and graduated with honors.
LARRY IVY Assistant Director of Athletics For Finance
Adding a new dimension to UK athletics was the appointment two years ago of LARRY IVY as Assistant Director of
Athletics for Finance.
Ivy, who came to the University as Director of Housing in 1969, is involved primarily with the administration and management of financial aspects, and develops and initiates policies for accounting procedures and related business management activities of the department.
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Adjacent to the entrance to Rupp Arena in the Lexington Center will be located the Adolph F. Rupp-UK Basketball Museum.
The purpose of the museum is to relive some of the past Wildcat teams' exploits and those of its great players. Included in the museum will be photographs, trophies, tape recordings, films and other memorabilia reflecting on past Kentucky teams.
"We have a unique opportunity to perpetuate the legend of the late Adolph Rupp and the rich basketball tradition that has been established by the University of Kentucky," commented DeWitt Ilisle, chairman of the museum. "The museum will give basketball fans every where a fascinating insight into what this game has meant to followers of the UK Wildcats."
Rupp coached teams compiled an 880-190 record. He guided the Wildcats to four NCAA titles, an NIT championship and 27 SEC crowns.
The museum will cover Kentuckv basketball teams from the first season in 1903, when the team recorded a 1-2 record, through the most recently completed season.
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in the museum and used to show films on the changing style of basketball over the past 75 years.
The material found in the museum is coming from the official archives of UK, Memorial Coliseum, the family of the late Adolph Rupp and from the public.
"Obviously one of the major advantages we have in establishing this mus-
eum is the fact that we can build it around a central figure, the late Adolph Rupp, whose 41 seasons as UK head coach resulted in some of the greatest accomplishments in the history of collegiate basketball," said Charles Atchcr, archivist of the University of Kentucky.
Atcher says one of the guiding principles in planning for the Rupp-UK Basketball Museum is that the museum will show the continuing history of basketball at UK, which means the museum will be capable of expanding to display accomplishments of future teams.
The UK tradition is being continued by Joe B. Hall who replaced Rupp as head coach beginning with the 1972-73 season. In six years, Hall has led the Cats to four SEC championships, an NIT championship, the 1978 NCAA title and an overall 135-42 record.
Costing an approximate $200,000, the projects' funding will come from tax-deductible donations from the public. Operation of the museum will be funded by a small admission charge, "not to exceed $1," according to Hisle.
Donations to help establish the museum may be' mailed to: Rupp-UK Museum, P. O. Box RUPP, Lexington, Ky. 40512.
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15 1978-79 NUMERICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY BASKETBALL ROSTER
No. Name	Pos.	Class	Ht.		Wt.	Age	Exp.	Hometown
4 Kyle Macy	G	Jr-	6-	3	180	21	1L	Peru, Ind.
15 Chris Gettelfingcr	G	So.	6-	2	185	19	Sq.	Knoxville, Term.
20 Dvvane Casey	G	Sr.	6-	2	195	21	3L	Morganfield, Ky.
22 Truman Claytor	G	Sr.	6-	1	178	21	3L	Toledo, Ohio
23 Dwight Anderson	G	Fr.	6-	3	180	18		Dayton, Ohio
25 JayShidler	C	Jr.	6-	1	185	20	2L	Lawrenceville, 111.
34 Chuck Verderber	F	Fr.	6-	6	220	18		Lincoln, 111.
35 Clarence Tillman	F	Fr.	6-	7	205	18		Philadelphia, Pa.
40 Freddie Cowan	F-C	So?	6-	8	195	19	1L	Sturgis, Ky.
52 LaVon Williams	F	Jr.	6-	6	200	20	2L	Denver, Colo.
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  Cawood' Helps Listeners SEE Wildcats
Editor's Note:
Art Jester is a staff writer for the Anni-ston, Alabama Star and a transplanted Ken-tuckian from Danville. When the Wildcats were playing in Tuscaloosa this season, he interviewed Cawood Ledford and wrote the following feature article. The story is reprinted with permission franted by Jester and the editorial staff of the Anniston Star.
By ART JESTER Staff Writer Anniston Star Kentucky had just won its fifth NCAA basketball championship last March when I called the Blue Grass State for some exclusive post-game comments.
"Mom, did you watch the game?" I asked, as if I didn't know the answer to that one.
"Well, I watched the television," she said, "but I turned down the sound and listened on the radio to Cawood Ledford."
She didn't have to tell me any more.
NBC had its four horsemen: Enberg, Packer, Cowdy and McGuire. But to Kentucky fans like my mother, that made no difference. When it comes to listening to basketball, they know what a good thing they've got.
And for 26 years  long enough to transform mere habit into an almost sacred ritual  Kentucky fans have been tuning in to the man they simply and affectionately call "Cawood." Listening to Cawood isn't just a matter of parochial pride.
For Ledford's mellow, authoritative voice, dramatic flair, unparalleled descriptive power and change of pace delivery that ebbs and flows with the tempo of a fast-paced game have made him, in many minds, the nation's finest basketball announcer.
"WHEN CAWOOD LEDFORD calls Kentucky basketball," a Louisville radio station has touted, "you don't hear it, you SEE it."
"My only reason to be there is for the listener," Ledford said recently in Tuscaloosa, relaxing a few hours before Kentucky played Alabama. "I'm not there to please the coach or the players. I've got to lell the listener the way I see it."
When the Wildcats play, fans from far away "see and hear Kentucky basketball through the eyes of Cawood Ledford," as another radio spot suggests.
There arc fans like "Tombstone Johnny" of Algona, Iowa. Each game day, "Tombstone Johnny"  he sells grave markers for a living  calls Kentucky coach Joe Hall to wish him cood luck. Later, as the night turns cold and wintry. "Tombstone Johnny" joins Kentucky
fans everywhere by snuggling up to the radio for the cozy sound of Cawood calling the action.
With rare exceptions, picking up night games is no problem in places like Algona, Iowa  and Anniston for that matter. With more than 90 affiliates, the University of Kentucky basketball network is the nation's largest. It is also one of the most powerful. The 50,000-watt signals of Louisville's WHAS (840) and Cincinnati's WCKY (1530) beam Ledford's voice deep into the South, Midwest and East.
As a result, Ledford's popularity has been regional and even national. And it seems that with the 52-year-old broadcaster at the peak of his career, he may become even better known.
Next month, for example, the Lexington public relations firm that broadcasts Kentucky's games will begin a contract to broadcast the semifinals and finals of the NCAA basketball tournament on NBC radio. Who will do the play-byplay? Cawood Ledford, of course. ____
BY MAY, WHEN the sun always shines bright on the Old Kentucky Home, horse racing will be in full bloom. That means Ledford, who follows the
ponies as adeptly as he does the fast break or the 1-3-1, will be in his familiar role of calling the Kentucky Derby and die Preakness on CBS radio.
THEN BY FALL, Ledford will be back in the broadcast booth, calling Kentucky football games. He's as skillful with that sport as with basketball and horse racing. But, as might be expected in Kentucky, the latter two have brought him greater renown.
"I really like the change," he said, as he finished off one pack of cigarettes and fished for another. "I love football, but by the time your feet start getting cold, it's time to go indoors for basketball. I like the change."
Because he likes his regimen, Ledford has never been lured from Kentucky, though there have been temptations from bigger places, including an offer last year to become the announcer for the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls. There was no chance he would accept.
"Nobody's going to pay me what it would take for me to do professional basketball," Ledford said. "I wouldn't touch that. Those guys are in San Francisco one night and Chicago the next and
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So the native of Harlan, Ky., in the Appalachian coal country, has remained in his home state. His devotion to his listeners has been returned many times over.
Among Kentuckians, Ledford has emerged as "a sort of folk hero," in the words of Billy Reed, the sports editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Fans buy records with excerpts of Ledford's broadcasts. Bookstores around the UK campus sell color posters with cameos of Kentucky's current football and basketball stars, plus Hall and football coach Fran Curci. And on one side, with microphone before him and earphones perched atop his balding head, is none other than Cawood Ledford.
"HE IS THE essence of the Wildcats," is the way Ledford was described to the Courier-Journal's Reed by Jim Host, the Lexington businessman whose firm broadcasts Kentucky's games.
Ledford soon will leave his position as sports director of WHAS Radio-TV, where he has worked since 1956. He is moving from Louisville to Lexington to start his own company, Cawood Ledford Productions, in which he will be a partner with Host.
Next summer, Ledford will begin out-lining a book he plans to write about Kentucky sports. When completed, it will join a book Ledford has written about sports broadcasting.
Despite these changes and plans, Ledford seems secure as the "Voice of the Wildcats." That means Kentucky fans will still enjoy his solid professionalism, which is founded on thorough preparation.
"After all these years, I would be so utterly scared to death if I came in here
Cawood Ledford (left) discusses game action with color commentator Ralph Hacker
and did nothing to prepare," Ledford said, looking toward an Alabama basketball brochure on a table a few feet away from where he was stretched out and propped up by pillows on his bed.
He spends only three to four hours studying for a basketball game because, as he said, "there's not much memory work in basketball."
Football takes much longer. In autumn, Ledford will prepare two nights during the week, Friday night, and Saturday morning before the game.
Getting ready for the race track is sheer memory work  and more.
"HORSE RACING is so quick," he said. "It's the hardest thing to do. You have to identify 12 to 20 horses by color (of the silks) and you can't get any help. There's no room to make a mistake. It's
over too quickly. You either get out at the gate right or you don't."
Some announcers overdramatize boring games, apparently believing their unrestrained talking keeps listeners tuned in. Ledford, on the other hand, does not try to cover up dull or sloppy playing in his vivid depictions of the game's quickness and delays create a drama all their own. And when the action is fast and furious, his controlled, rapid-fire narrative keeps apace with the ball's every movement.
"Basketball was made in heaven to broadcast," he said. "It's the stalls and the slowdowns that are the dogs to broadcast."
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4	| KYLE MACY [ 6-3 Junior Guard	123456   7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6*123 7 8 9 10 11 12    4 5		
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20	DWANE CASEY 6-2 Senior Guard	112345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	1 1 2 3 4 5	
22	TRUMAN CLAYTOR 6-1 Senior Guard	12345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	| 1 2 3 4 5	
23	DWIGHT ANDERSON 6-3 Freshman Guard	12345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	12 3 4 5	
25	JAY SHIDLER 6-1 Junior Guard	12345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	12 3 4 5	
34	CHUCK VERDERBER 6-6 Freshman Forward	12345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ,---	12 3 4 5	
35	CLARENCE TILLMAN 6-7 Freshman Forward	12345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	12 3 4 5	
40	FREDDIE COWAN 6-8 Sophomore Forward-Center	12345G78 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	12 3 4 5	
52	LaVON WILLIAMS 6-G Junior Forward	12345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	12 3 4 5	
		12345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	12 3 4 5	
		12345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	12 3 4 5	
		12345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	12 3 4 5	
		12345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	12 3 4 5	
		12345678il23456 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 7 8 9 10 11 12		12 3 4 5	
TOTAL |		1			
Officials: Ken Lauderdale, Jerry Yarbrough and Henry Nichols.
 VANDERBILT COMMODORE SCORECARD
	FG FT			PF	TP
11 20 22	TOMMY SPRINGER 5-10 Junior Guard	1   2   3   4   5   6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	123 !   4 5	
	MIKE RHODES ! 6-5 Sophomore Guard-Forward j TOM SHULTZ i 6-5 Senior Forward	12345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	1 2 3 4 5	1
		1   2   3   4   5   6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	12 3 4 5	1
23	CHARLES DAVIS 6-6 Junior Forward	12345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	12 3 4 5	
24	MARK ELLIOTT 6:1 Junior Guard	12345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	1   2   3   4   5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	12 3 4 5	1
25	JIM LAMP