Word: rupp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kentucky's basketball team over Kansas State, 68-58, for the N.C.A.A. title; in Minneapolis. Kentucky's draft-exempt team (all are enrolled in R.O.T.C.) will be even better next year, says Coach Adolph Rupp, than his "Fabulous Five," the 1948 Olympic champions...
...says Bee, when Metcalfe was away, and Bee, as his assistant, had to answer a letter from the University of Kentucky. Somebody at Kentucky wanted to know what, in the light of L.I.U.'s experience with basketball coaches, they ought to offer to pay Coach Adolph Rupp. Bee answered that at L.I.U. the basketball coach considers his job just a labor of love-and doesn't care about money...
Nine Plays. Rupp relies not only on a lot of shooting (10-15% more than the average team), but constantly demands "speed and a lot of ball handling." Rupp denies that Kentucky's rapid-fire shooting produces razzle-dazzle basketball. "With our nine basic plays," claims Rupp, "we are probably the most definite [i.e., deliberately patterned] team in the country...
...dazzled Kentuckians who watched Rupp's team win its 88th consecutive home game might well have missed Rupp's "definite" attack, but they were convinced they had watched the No. 1 team in the country...
...Rupp played on one of Phog Allen's first Kansas teams in the early...