Word: rupp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-mile record -13:37. Shotputter Parry O'Brien uncorked a heave of 62 ft. 1¼ in. to better his own world record. ¶ The nation's longest college basketball winning streak was snapped rudely at 30 in Lexington, Ky., when Auburn ran into Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats, took a 75-56 clobbering in a game made lively by fisticuffs...
...Want to Win." "He's not the most modest coach who ever came down the pike," says West Virginia's Fred Schaus of Rupp, "but he's the greatest." Says Tennessee's Coach Emmett Lowery...
...Life doesn't hang on the result of a basketball game, but it seems like it when you play Rupp." Rupp himself cares little about the effect his self-centered personality has on others. Says he: "I am not engaged in a popularity contest. I want to win basketball games." So far this season, Kentucky has won them all in tough competition, e.g., St. Louis, West Virginia, Maryland, at week's end ran its record to 11-0 by dumping Georgia Tech...
...Rupp's success at Kentucky is traceable to indefatigable recruiting, and a merciless concentration on perfection of fundamentals. Admits the Baron: "Of course, we get good boys here at Kentucky. Every boy in the state, from the time he's born, lives for the day he can play at the university." Once Rupp gets his players, he drills them endlessly and without letup. They live together in the same dormitory, eat a special diet. Practices are conducted in semi-silence, save for an occasional tongue-lashing directed by Rupp at a player who is not giving...
Playing Together. After a defeat, Rupp has been known to order his players to keep their uniforms on until the crowd has left, then send them back on the floor to iron out the mistakes they had made in the game. There is seldom an outstanding star on Rupp's fast-breaking, hard-running Kentucky teams. Rupp does not believe in them. "If the star has an off night, the whole team has an off night." he explains. Says North Carolina's Frank McGuire: "Kentucky has found the secret of basketball, that it's five guys playing...