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...team. The 1948 crop (four Kentuckians, eight outlanders) was particularly potent; it won the national championship, and its starting five went on to the U.S. Olympic squad and later to professional careers. Last year, hurt by graduation, Rupp rebuilt. This year, with big (7 ft., 215 lbs.) Bill Spivey as a firm foundation at the center post, Rupp is ready for another big season...
Last week, after some early-season breathers, Kentucky faced its first big test from a University of Kansas team coached by Rupp's own onetime teacher, Phog Allen.* A record 13,000 fans filled Kentucky's new Memorial Coliseum to watch the duel between Kentucky's Spivey (rhymes with ivy) and Clyde Lovellette, the Kansas skyscraper (6 ft. 9 in.) who set a Big Seven record of 545 points in 25 games last year. Before the game Rupp warned reporters: "As Spivey goes, we go." Spivey went beautifully...
Same as Chemistry. Time after time, Georgia-born Bill Spivey grabbed off Kansas passes intended for Lovellette. Once he stole the ball right out of the Kansan's hands, dribbled the length of the floor to score. By half time, Spivey had 14 points to Lovellette's four and Kentucky led Kansas 28-12. The baffled Lovellette fouled out in the third quarter, after being held to ten points by Spivey's glue-like guarding. Spivey himself had scored 22 points (high for the game). When Lovellette went out, Rupp took out Spivey too ("We wanted their...
Short for Turrets. Headed for gunners' wings and immediate transfer to combat outfits, the new graduates marched past Fort Myers' lean, brown-eyed commander, Colonel Delmar T. Spivey, and a party of visitors. There were a few tall men among them, but most of the new gunners were undersized, were stretching their legs to the limit to make a regulation pace. "Good for these tight turrets," observed Del Spivey. "They can shoot, too, I'll guarantee that...
This focusing of responsibility troubled Elzie and Early. They crossed the fields to ask their mother what to do. She told them to take the Negro back to jail and let the law take its course. At midnight, bruised but still unafraid, Spivey was back in his cell. The boys in his cell said they had figured there was a better chance of seeing their mothers come back from the grave than of ever seeing him alive again...