Word: hagan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just going to turn my boys loose and let them live up to it." Against Temple University's first-class opposition, Rupp's team ran wild to an 86-59 victory. Chief star of evening: All-America (1952) Co-Captain Cliff ("The Cat") Hagan, whose 51 points broke a Southeastern Conference scoring record...
...play nearly as well as we are capable." How good is Rupp's team? In preseason polls, U.S. basketball coaches ranked Kentucky No. 2, after Indiana, last season's N.C.A.A. champion. Main reasons for the high ranking: 1) Coach Rupp himself, 2) Spring-legged Cliff Hagan of Owensboro, Ky., one of the shortest major college (6 ft. 4 in.) centers and one of the game's most prolific scorers (21.6 points average), and 3) Co-Captain Frank Ramsey of Madisonville, Ky., a 6 ft. 3 in. guard and floor leader who specializes in intercepting passes and scoring...
...Next to Hagan and Ramsey in team scoring is Forward Lou Tsioropoulos of Lynn, Mass., the third senior on the squad, who made a big impression in Kentucky's intrasquad games during last year's excommunication period. (More than 35,000 loyal Kentuckians poured in to watch the four exhibitions.) The three seniors, now in their fifth year on campus, are the backbone of Rupp's new team...
...nights later, Louisiana State University's Bob Pettit, who held the old record (50 points) scored 60 against little Louisiana College (enrollment: 910), but the N.C.A.A. regards Hagan's 51 as the record in "major competition...
Apparently impressed by Hagan's scraping and by an 1860 Cincinnati Daily Gazette description of the house as "a Quaker tint of tan," the advisory committee members after 90 minutes' deliberation ruled for "Quaker Brown." "Quaker Brown" was defined by one committeeman as "just about the shade of Mr. Hubbs's suit"-a light chocolate. Said Hagan: "If we get within three shades of the original color anyway, we'll be lucky...