Word: ruppe
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...socks, squirmed on his chair, periodically leaped up to loose a volley of abuse at a panting Kentucky player. Out on the floor of Louisville's Freedom Hall, the University of Kentucky basketball team was botching plays, losing passes, defending raggedly against an alert Illinois team. Coach Adolph Rupp relaxed only when a last-ditch Illinois shot rolled harmlessly off the rim, preserving a 76-75 Kentucky victory. Sighed the Baron: "That one nearly killed...
...years as head basketball coach at Kentucky, Adolph ("The Baron") Rupp, 57, has fretted and fidgeted his way through 595 victories, lost only 103 games. His teams have triumphed with a pleasant monotony characteristic of the New York Yankees, won the N.C.A.A. championship a record four times, the National Invitation tournament and 19 Southeastern Conference championships...
There have been troubles too. Kentucky's 1952-53 team was banned from N.C.A.A. play on charges that Rupp knowingly used ineligible players, condoned cash payments to his stars. But Kentucky did not blame the Baron, in fact gave him a vote of confidence...
...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...
...climactic basketball game was played in Louisville, Governor A. B. ("Happy") Chandler was whooping in the stands, and after Seattle's All-American Elgin Baylor had hobbled himself with four fouls, nothing could stop Kentucky from winning the N.C.A.A. basketball championship, 84-72. Said Kentucky Coach Adolph Rupp in the fanciest dribble of the tournament: "We're tickled to death tonight that The Master that points the finger of destiny pointed...