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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Kentucky's awesome margin against a team ranked seventh in the country (before the game) was the result of rigidly disciplined practice sessions where players speak only when spoken to. Explains Taskmaster Rupp: "Practice is the same as chemistry class. Everybody pays strict attention." While most coaches chart players' shots at the basket during games, Rupp goes further: he has assistants busy jotting down every shot his players make in practice. One of Rupp's favorite maxims: "Shooting is to basketball what putting is to golf...
...never do it yourself. The principle is this: every government, even that of the United States, lies always and about everything; when it can't lie on the main issue, it lies about the details. There are good lies and bad. Good ones are those that the [middle class] believes; excellent ones catch some of the carriage public; execrable ones are those nobody believes, and that only the most shameless ministries dare repeat. Everybody knows this. It is one of the first maxims of state, and must never escape your memory-or your lips...
This award, a monetary prize, goes each year to "the most distinguished scholar in the senior class who is a recipient of a stipendiary scholarship...
Hawkins, who graduated from Walpole High School, is a student of English Literature. During his junior year he was one of the eight members of his class elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of the Signet Society, the Dramatic Club, and the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770. He is also president of the Art Association...
...addition to his reputation as a first-class arnica and iodine man, Fadden is a highly engaging raconteur. During his travels around professional circuits, he has rubbed elbows of great and near-great athletes (it was Fadden who treated Ted Williams' injury last summer). He has a ready stock of stories which he can relate much in the manner of Ring Lardner's rookie. Not only that, but there was not one major injury during the past football season. Good man to have around...