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Adolph Rupp and the rise of Kentucky basketball / James Duane Bolin.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780813177205
- ISBN: 0813177200
- Physical Description: 394 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2019]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Halstead years, 1901-1919 -- The University of Kansas and the Jayhawk Café, 1919-1923 -- Before Big Blue, 1923-1930 -- Building a tradition, 1930-1941 -- World War II and the games march on, 1941-1945 -- The fabulous five -- The golden era, 1946-1951 -- Scandal -- The businessman at home -- From a canceled season to the fiddlin five, 1952-1958 -- Rupp and race -- Rupp's runts and runners-up -- Transitional times, 1966-1972 -- Forced retirement and post-UK years. |
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| Subject: | Rupp, Adolph, 1901-1977. Kentucky Wildcats (Basketball team) > History. Basketball coaches > United States > Biography. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | K 796.323092 R946b 2019 (Text) | 33126022607489 | KY Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | K 796.323092 R946b 2019 (Text) | 33126022607497 | KY Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"As the person most responsible for creating the phenomenon that is University of Kentucky basketball, Adolph Rupp (1901-1977) is a legend in Kentucky and in the larger world of Division I college basketball. As UK's coach from 1930-1972, Rupp led the program to four NCAA championships and is the third most winning coach in NCAA history, behind Bobby Knight and Dean Smith. Rupp's record is not without blemish, however. In the late 1940s, three of his players were indicted in a point-shaving scandal, and in more recent years his legacy has been tarnished by claims that he was a racist. He was portrayed as such in the 2006 film Glory Road, which dramatized the 1966 defeat of the popular (and all-white) Rupp's Runts to an all-black Texas Western team in theNCAA championship game. In Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Big-Time College Basketball in America, James Duane Bolin sets the record straight by presenting a balanced picture of Rupp, with all of his faults-and incredible successes-firmly intact. Drawing upon a wealth of primary sources--including game summaries, correspondence, business and legal records, and hundreds of hours of recorded interviews with Rupp's relatives, former players, assistant coaches and administrators, and even the man himself--Bolin is able to provide an unprecedented level of insight into Rupp's life. The book begins with Rupp's youth in Kansas, including accounts of his interactions with James Naismith, basketball's inventor. Subsequent chapters examine his professional life, both before and during his tenure at UK; his most storied teams, including the Fabulous Five, which won championships in 1948 and 1949; and his many other business interests, such as his 500-acre farm and bourbon distilling"-- - University of Kentucky
Known as the "Man in the Brown Suit" and the "Baron of the Bluegrass," Adolph Rupp (1901â1977) is a towering figure in the history of college athletics. In Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball, historian James Duane Bolin goes beyond the wins and losses to present the fullest account of Rupp's life to date based on more than one-hundred interviews with Rupp, his assistant coaches, former players, University of Kentucky presidents and faculty members, and his admirers and critics, as well as court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and other archival materials. His teams won four NCAA championships (1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958), the 1946 National Invitation Tournament title, and twenty-seven Southeastern Conference regular season titles. Rupp's influence on the game of college basketball and his impact on Kentucky culture are both much broader than his impressive record on the court.
Bolin covers Rupp's early yearsâfrom his rural upbringing in a German Mennonite family in Halstead, Kansas, through his undergraduate years at the University of Kansas playing on teams coached by Phog Allen and taking classes with James Naismith, the inventor of basketballâto his success at Kentucky. This revealing portrait of a pivotal figure in American sports also exposes how college basketball changed, for better or worse, in the twentieth century.