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...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...
...Hagan: "It doesn't have any white paint...
...Hagan: "The only proof of white paint is from people born after 1890 who talked to people born before...
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...