xt7k6d5p9208 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7k6d5p9208/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky 1951 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 (1950-1951) UK vs. UCLA (December 26, 1951) Memorial Coliseum programs coaches Rupp, Adolph players rosters schedules Kentucky (Wildcats) vs. U.C.L.A. (Bruins), December 26, 1951 text Kentucky (Wildcats) vs. U.C.L.A. (Bruins), December 26, 1951 1951 2012 true xt7k6d5p9208 section xt7k6d5p9208 OFFICIAL PROGRAM - 10 CENTS UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEMORIAL COLISEUM KENTUCKY (**t*u) vs U.C.L.A. fsww Wednesday, December 26, 1951 8:00 P.M. MEMORIAL COLISEUM HERE IN STONE AND STFFi IS RAISED A MEMORIAL TO MORE THAN NINE THOUSAND SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY WHO GAVE I HEIR LIVES IN BATTLE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN PEACE ERECT AND STRONG AND FREF WORLD WAR n 1941-45 " THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD. AS WE THAT \RE LEFT GROW OLD: AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM, NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN. A'l MIL GOING DOWN 01 I HE SUN \ND IN THE MORNING * WE Will. REMEMBER THEM." The Official Kentucky Basketball Program Is Published For Each Home Game Throughout The Season By The University of Kentucky Athletics Association. Composition And Printing By Kentucky Kernel Press. Prepared And Edited By Ken Kuhn, Sports Publicity Editor. 2 IN MEMORY OF MEN WHO DIED THIS IS A HOUSE built not on sand but on a firm foundation. Fabricated out of steel, stone, concrete, and brick, it is more substantially built than the Coliseum at Rome and should stand as long. This is Kentucky's Coliseum. It belongs to the people. Erected as a memorial to our honored dead of World War II, it is to be used in the service of the living. It is an honest building. This is a house built not for superficial purposes but for an honest program of education. It is a sports arena where thousands may gather in wholesome recreation to witness games of skill played by men who display the finest quality of sportsmanship. It is a gymnasium where students pursue courses in physical education to the betterment of their minds and bodies. It is an auditorium where students and citizens may meet to hear the world's greatest speakers and thinkers bring us wisdom and knowledge. It is a music hall where we may assemble to listen to the great artists of all nations lift us to new heights of aesthetic appreciation. May it, also, frequently be a temple where we may worship and be led into closer communion with God. It will ever be a shrine where the brokenhearted may come to pay homage to their own who paid the last full measure of devotion. Dr. Donovan 3 Basketball at U.C.L.A. Starting his fourth year at the helm of the Bruin cagers, Johnny Wooden boasts a remarkable 65 won, 24 lost (73.0 pet.) record, including three straight PCC Southern Division championships, since his arrival at Westwood. Wooden's biggest ambition at present is the quest for a national championship title for his UCLA basketballers. He believes in lining up the toughest competition available at every opportunity, and these games against the top US fives have provided his charges with an incalculable amount of added experience. Famed as a member of the all-time All-American cage team, Wooden was a star guard for three years at Purdue University, and captained the 1932 Boilermaker National champions. Upon his graduation from college, Wooden enjoyed a highly successful prep coaching career for the next ten years at Dayton, Kentucky, and JOHN R. WOODEN Central High of South Bend, Indiana. After spending three years as athletic officer in the Navy, Wooden mentored the Sycamores of the Indiana State Teachers College in Terre Haute, Ind., for two seasons before switching to UCLA in 1948. Wooden is now 41 years old, and has been hailed by many experts as one of the top brains in the cage sport today. Shortly after graduation from Purdue, Wooden also scored another triumph, when he entered into a lifetime contract with the present Mrs. Nellie C. Wooden. The Helms Athletic Foundation selected Johnny Wooden to their All-Time All-American College Basketball team in 1943, and stated: "Wooden was probably the greatest all-around guard of them all. Brilliant on defense, and an exceptional shot." Another Wooden may be around to add his name in the cage world in the not too distant future. Fifteen-year-old Jimmy will try to start emulating the accomplishments of his illustrious father this year at the nearby University High School in West Los Angeles, where he and his attractive 17-year-old sister, Nancy Anne, are currently in attendance. Season Outlook Three for Three!That's the perfect record which UCLA's basketballers have achieved in Southern Division competition since John R. Wooden took over the Bruin coaching reins back in 1948. The lack of cage savy will provide Bruin cage aspirations with the biggest obstacle this winter. Coach John Wooden's varsity is loaded with youthful talent, but is short on experienced hands. The UCLA "Youth Movement", accentuated by the arrival of a host of talented and colorful newcomers, figures to be mighty interesting to watch. As is to be expected from any green, inexperienced team, this winter's Bruins will probably be very inconsistent. They may be capable of being very good at times; but a polished veteran opponent may make them look very bad at times. Improvement is expected as the season progresses, and the tough practice schedule should provide very valuable experience for the many promising freshmen and sophomores on the squad. 4 UK BASKETBALL ROSTER No. Name Pos. Class Ht. Wt. Age Home Town 6 Hagan, Cliff F-C Jr. 6-4 200 20 Owensboro, Ky. 7 Flynn, James F Fr. 6-2 180 18 Lexington, Ky. 1 1 Linville, Shelby F-C Sr. 6-5 200 23 Middlerown, O. 16 Tsioropoulos, Louis C-F Jr. 6-5 200 22 Lynn, Mass. 18 Nutt, Houston F Fr. 6-1 168 18 Fordyce, Ark. 19 Cooke, George G Fr. 6-0 170 19 Maysville, Ky. 20 Rose, Gayle G Soph. 6-0 155 18 Paris, Ky. 22 Clark, Ronald C-F Fr. 6-6 185 18 Springfield, Mass. 25 Swartz, Dan F Fr. 6-3 180 18 Owingsville, Ky. 30 Ramsey, Frank G-F Jr. 6-3 185 20 Madisonville, Ky. 31 Cosby, Neale G Fr. 5-9 140 18 Athens, Ky. 32 Whitaker, Lucian G Sr. 6-0 170 21 Louisville, Ky. 33 Keller, Charles G Fr. 5-11 160 18 Jonesboro, Ark. 35 Preston, Woodrow F Fr. 6-2 165 18 Pikeville, Ky. 36 Rouse, Willie G Soph. 6-0 160 18 Lexington, Ky. 37 Neff, Gene F Soph. 6-2 185 19 Eaton, O. 42 Evans, Bill G Soph. 6-1 170 18 Berea, Ky. 43 Sharp, Brown G Fr. 5-6 140 19 Lexington, Ky. 44 Dwyer, Cliff C Fr. 6-8 220 17 Cincinnati, O. 66 Watson, Robert G Sr. 5-101/2 155 21 Owensboro, Ky. 77 Spivey, Bill C Sr. 7-0 230 22 Macon, Ga. (Players will wear same uniform numbers in both blue and white game dress.) U.C.L.A. BASKETBALL ROSTER No. Name Pos. Class Ht. Wt. Age Home Town 32 Moore, John F-C Fr. 6-5 196 19 Gary, Indiana 35 Hibler, Mike C Soph. 6-7 195 19 No. Hollywood 37 Saunders, Paul C-F Sr. 6-3 180 24 Fresno 52 Norman, Jerry F Sr. 6-0 180 22 Los Angeles 53 Pounds, Bobby F Sr. 6-2 168 22 Fresno 55 Millan, Ed F Jr. 5-1 1 170 20 Ventura 56 Bragg, Don F Fr. 6-4 180 18 San Francisco 57 Bane, Ron F Fr. 6-2 200 18 Alhambra 59 Evans, Jerry F Jr. 6-4 185 20 Los Angeles 71 Porter, Barry G Jr. 6-2 180 21 Los Angeles 72 Davidson, Jack G Soph. 6-2 190 20 El Monte 73 Johnson, Don G Sr. 6-3 195 21 El Monte 74 Logan, Gene G Jr. 6-1 170 19 Alhambra 75 Livingston, Ron G Soph. 5-10 165 19 Alhambra 78 Costello, Mark G Fr. 6-2 198 19 El Monte 5 FACTS ABOUT THE COLISEUM LOCATED ON EUCLID AVENUE between Lexington Avenue and Rose Street, the majestic Memorial Coliseum has a seating capacity of 12,000 for basketball games and 15,000 for programs in which folding chairs may be placed on the playing floor. Seating space for approximately 300 persons is provided alongside the 75-foot six-lane swimming pool. All seats on the building's west side, approximately one third of the total, are theater-type chairs, and the remainder are bleacher type. More than 80 per cent of the Coliseum's permanent seats are at side court. The building contains ticket sales offices, offices for the athletics director, football coach, basketball coach, all assistant coaches, swimming pool director, and the sports publicity editor. Locker rooms for football, basketball, i baseball and a!l minor sports also are located in the new structure. Excavation of the building site required removal of 40,000 cubic yards of earth and more than 10,000 cubic yards of rock. Construction required 11,000 cubic yards of concrete and more than 500 tons of reinforcing steel. Other construction materials used in the building include 3,500,000 brick, 3,000 tons of structural steel, 2.3 acres of roofing, and two acres of terrazo flooring. Measured from the Euclid avenue side (the front), the Coliseum is 82 feet in height. Its acoustically-treated ceiling is 49 feet above the playing floor, and the span of its main trusses is 225 feet. Twenty-six double-doored exits allow the building to be emptied of a capacity crowd in little more than ten minutes, and a combination heating and ventilating system produces six to eight complete air changes per hour. The basketball court, laid on a sub-floor of concrete, is permanent and cannot be removed. Near perfect from an acoustical standpoint, the huge auditorium can be used for concerts and lectures as well as for sports events, conventions and all-University convocations. The Coliseum's permanent equipment includes a large electric organ, facilities for radio and television broadcasts, and ample space for the working press. Names of the 9,306 Gold Star Kentuckians have been lettered on permanent plaques which occupy recessed wall panels in the Coliseum entry ramps. Bronze stars have been placed in the concourses of the building by the Student Government Association in honor of the University of Kentucky men who died in the war, 6 ADOLPH RUPP "The Man In the Brown Suit" sounds like the title for a good mystery thriller and might very well be if it were not for Adolph Rupp, University of Kentucky's affable wizard of hardwood magic. Colorful as he is successful, Kentucky's head cage mentor long ago was tagged with the descriptive title by sportswriters of the nation because of his preference of brown as a game-night wardrobe and thus forestalled any cloak-and-dagger novelist from becoming famous with the title. The nation's winningest basketball coach is known to the sports world by a variety of titles, such as "Mr. Basketball," "The Baron," "Colonel," "01' Rupp and Ready," and "The Man In The Brown Suit"but none adequately describes the human interest of the man who has done more than any other modern tutor to make the cage game a national spectator sport. With his 21st year at the bluegrass school behind him, Baron Rupp can look back over a two-decade regime of unparalleled successan amazing record of 442 wins against 79 losses plus a third NCAA Tournament Championship for his Kentucky bas-ketters, representing the first team in history to annex the title three times. The crafty professor of hardwood tactics and his nationally-famous Wildcats have become virtually synonymous in the basketball world. The record compiled by Rupp-coached Kentucky teams borders on the fantastic and his cage powerhouses have consistently won nationwide fame in intercollegiate competition. Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats can boast an unequaled record of 83 victories against 17 defeats in major tournament competition over the past 21 years, including participation in 18 national classics. The Bluegrass cagers were the first team in the history of the Naismith sport to win two NCAA and one National Invitational crown and last season won their third NCAA Tournament title to become the first to accomplish this feat, HARRY LANCASTER Baron Rupp's capable assistant professor of basketball knowledge and general right hand man is genial Harry Lancaster. As Kentucky's first full-time assistant cage coach, he bosses a promising squad of first year performers who make up the "B" team and handles the gruelling assignment of scouting the Wildcats' future opponents. Lancaster, who came to U.K. in 1942 as an instructor in physical education, spent last summer in Greece as a representative of the U. S. State Department. His duties consisted primarily of advising Greek Basketball Federation officials and coaches, lecturing and conducting coaching clinics. bacn r\ow ui)Dy Moore Ueam Manager;, i_nff nagan, ineioy Linvule, Uick haycock ^o lonyer on leamj, i\onme v-iam, dim jpiey, Cliff Dwyer, Doug Howell (no longer on team), Lou Tsioropoulos, Frank Ramsey, and Smoky Harper (Trainer) Middle Row Adolph Rupp (Head Coach), Dan Swartz, Gene Neff, Billy Evans, Gayle Rose, Willie Rouse, Bobby Watson, Skippy Whit-aker, and Harry Lancaster (Assistant Coach) Front Row Brown Sharp, George Cooke, Jim Flynn, Woodrow Preston, Charles Keller, and Houston Nutt KENTUCKY'S SCORE CARD KENTUCKY ( ) F. G. F. T. P. F. T. P. 11 Linville (f) 16 Tsioropoulos (f) 6 Hagan (c) 30 Ramsey (g) 38 Watson (g) 32 Whiraker (g) 42 Evans (g) 20 Rose (g) 36 Rouse (g) 37 Neff (f) 77 Spivey (c) TOTALS (Complete Roster on Page 5) RONNIE BANE Forward MIKE HIBLER Center JERRY NORMAN Forward BARRY PORTER DON JOHNSON Guard Guard U.C.L.A/S SCORE CARD U. C. L. A. ( ) F. G. F. T. P. F. T. P. 52 Norman (f) 57 Bane (f) 35 Hibler (c) 73 Johnson (g) 71 Porter (g) 32 Moore (c) 37 Saunders (f-c) 53 Pounds (f) 55 Millan (f) 56 Bragg (f) 59 Evans (f) 72 Davidson (g) 74 Logan (g) 75 Livingston (g) 78 Costello (g) TOTALS (Complete Roster on Page 5) Sa&6et&a(l at 'Kentucky 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 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$2.50................Home Dec. 26U.C.L.A.$2.50 .............. Home Dec. 28, 29Sugar Bowl ...... New Orleans Jan. 2U. of Mississippi ........Owensboro Jan. 5L.S.U.$2.00 .................. Home Jan. 7Xavier$2.50 .................. Home Jan. 12Florida .............................. Away Jan. 14Georgia........................Louisville Jan. 19Tennessee..........................Away Jan. 21Georgia Tech .................... Away (All Home Ga Jan. 26Alabama............................Away Jan. 28Vanderbilt ........................ Away Jan. 30Auburn .............................. Away 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 West Texas State ............ (H) Purdue..............................(H) Xavier .............................. (A) Florida .............................. (H) Kansas .............................. (H) St. John's.......................... (A) Ky. 73 70 67 85 68 43 SUGAR BOWL TOURNAMENT St. Louis (N) Opp. 43 52 56 37 39 37 43 42 (Overtime) Syracuse .......................... (N) Auburn ............................ (H) DePaul ............................ (H) Alabama .......................... (H) Notre Dame .................... (H) Tennessee ........................ (A) Georgia Tech .................... (A) Vanderbilt ........................ (A) Tulane .............................. (A) L. S. U............................. (A) Mississippi State .............. (A) Mississippi ......... ............... (A) Georgia Tech .................... (H) Xavier .............................. (H) Tennessee ........................ (H) DePaul .............................. (A) Georgia ............................ (H) Vanderbilt ........................ (H) 69 79 63 65 69 70 82 74 104 81 80 86 75 78 86 60 88 89 59 35 55 48 44 45 61 49 68 59 60 39 42 51 61 57 41 57 SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT Mississippi State................(N) Auburn ............................ (N) Georgia Tech .................... (N) Vanderbilt (Finals) ............ Post Season Game Loyola (Chicago) .............. (H) NCAA TOURNAMENT Louisville (at Raleigh, N. C.) St. John's (at New York, N. Y.) Illinois (at New York, N. Y.) 92 84 57 57 97 79 59 76 70 54 61 67 61 68 43 74 Kansas State (at Minneapolis, Minn.) (Eastern finals) 68 58 (NCAA champions) Total .............................. 2540 1783 (SEC champions) 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) 4 iwiSundau 3fterald-%fc afler !SUNDAYi::.l \ Newspapers Offering Sports Coverage in Central Kentucky 12 FOR TOP QUALITY CLEANING and LAUNDERING SERVICE try 3ECKffe TODAY Five Convenient Locations To Serve You 13 Good Luck and Good Wishes To The WILDCATS 1951-52 HOME BASKETBALL KENTUCKY versus Washington & Lee Dec. 8 St. John's .......................... Dec. 17 DePaul Dec. 20 U.C.LA..................... Dec. 26 LS.U................................. Jan. 5 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 (in Louisville) Kessler Jewelers, located at Main and Limestone in Lexington, and with convenient downtown locations in Frankfort and Richmond, offers you the finest in jewelry, watches, pens, and guarantees every item of merchandise you purchase from any Kessler Jewelry Store. Personalized jewelry is a Kessler specialty, jewelry which matches your personality, and is designed with you in mind. Make all of your jewelry purchases the friendly, and economical Kessler way. k Kentucky FRANKFORT LEXINGTON RICHMOND 7952 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE KENTUCKY versus *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 .... 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