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Mlke Estep   January 1988 Volume 1, No. 10
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Winfred Jennings
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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS .   of the nation’s most successful program. By Russell Rice
Rick Bolus, Bob Gibbons  
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COLOR SEPAHATIONS ‘·I·‘‘   A     Kentucky wen 96 games during Jim Masters four-year career,
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