Word: rupp
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Oklahoma Aggies are outreached in one respect by University of Kentucky's Wildcats. Kentucky has as coach big, burly Adolph Frederick Rupp, a Kansan who learned his basketball from Phog Allen. Under Rupp's tutelage, Kentucky has won the Southeastern Conference basketball championship six times in ten years, last spring defeated mighty Illinois in the Eastern play-offs for the national collegiate championship...
...Rupp, realizing that in Kentucky his teams were playing in "feudin' country," set out long ago to make every game a vendetta. He adopted a trade-mark brown suit and a pugnacious air, took to arguing with the fans, bowing deeply to right & left when he was hissed, waggling a finger like a 10-20-30 villain. Soon Kentucky's basketball crowds grew tenfold. The whole countryside now turns out to see the hated "Man in the Brown Suit" and his "pore li'l mountain boys." So far this season, Kentucky has lost only two games...
...Rupp's chief Southern rival is Ed Diddle, coach at Western Kentucky State Teachers College. Though playing in a much slower league, Diddle's Hilltoppers last year reached the final of the National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden, defeating among others mighty Creighton and the College of the City of New York. In 20 seasons Diddle's teams have won 262 games, lost...