1953 UKIT

[otis-gip]

I was cleaning out my parents house recently and I found a box of my Dad's old stuff in the attic. Included was a ticket stub to the 1953 UKIT. It would have cost you a whopping two dollars and fifty cents to go to Memorial Coliseum and watch #2 UK defeat #13 Duke 85-69. Imagine how exciting it would be to watch UK beat Duke in the opening round of a Christmas tournament in Memorial Coliseum. Future Maryland coach Lefty Driesell played for Duke. Cliff Hagan and Frank Ramsey combined for 46 points for the Cats.
My Dad was a freshman at WKU in 1952. The box also had his uniform from the 1952 Kentucky-Ohio All Star Game. Dad told me years ago that WKU's Coach Ed Diddle chose all his recruits to play against the Ohio team. It was nothing like the Kentucky -Indiana All Stars but still a big deal for Dad. I also found a recruiting letter from Coach Diddle to my father written in the Spring of 1952. He asked my father to come tryout at Western during the summer. My father played freshman ball for the Hilltoppers but never made the varsity after that.

 

[akaukswoosh]

I was cleaning out my parents house recently and I found a box of my Dad's old stuff in the attic. Included was a ticket stub to the 1953 UKIT. It would have cost you a whopping two dollars and fifty cents to go to Memorial Coliseum and watch #2 UK defeat #13 Duke 85-69. Imagine how exciting it would be to watch UK beat Duke in the opening round of a Christmas tournament in Memorial Coliseum. Future Maryland coach Lefty Driesell played for Duke. Cliff Hagan and Frank Ramsey combined for 46 points for the Cats.
My Dad was a freshman at WKU in 1953. The box also had his uniform from the 1953 Kentucky-Ohio All Star Game. Dad told me years ago that WKU's Coach Ed Diddle chose all his recruits to play against the Ohio team. It was nothing like the Kentucky -Indiana All Stars but still a big deal for Dad. I also found a recruiting letter from Coach Diddle to my father written in the Spring of 1952. He asked my father to come tryout at Western during the summer. My father played freshman ball for the Hilltoppers but never made the varsity after that.

Didn't realize Lefty played for Duke.

 

[jc2010]

I was cleaning out my parents house recently and I found a box of my Dad's old stuff in the attic. Included was a ticket stub to the 1953 UKIT. It would have cost you a whopping two dollars and fifty cents to go to Memorial Coliseum and watch #2 UK defeat #13 Duke 85-69. Imagine how exciting it would be to watch UK beat Duke in the opening round of a Christmas tournament in Memorial Coliseum. Future Maryland coach Lefty Driesell played for Duke. Cliff Hagan and Frank Ramsey combined for 46 points for the Cats.
My Dad was a freshman at WKU in 1953. The box also had his uniform from the 1953 Kentucky-Ohio All Star Game. Dad told me years ago that WKU's Coach Ed Diddle chose all his recruits to play against the Ohio team. It was nothing like the Kentucky -Indiana All Stars but still a big deal for Dad. I also found a recruiting letter from Coach Diddle to my father written in the Spring of 1952. He asked my father to come tryout at Western during the summer. My father played freshman ball for the Hilltoppers but never made the varsity after that.

That was a great UK team, I would have loved to see them.

 

[Catfan2226]

Great story.I love to read stuff like this.$2.50 was still a lot to pay back in 1953 or I would assume it would be.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Great story.I love to read stuff like this.$2.50 was still a lot to pay back in 1953 or I would assume it would be.

$28 adjusted for inflation

 

[akaukswoosh]

$28 adjusted for inflation

Highway robbery.

 

[Backer cutter]

Wife’s grandfather got a letter from Rupp offering a chance to play. He chose Western. Played basketball, football, and baseball. Nickname, snowbird. Would have been interesting to know when that term originated.

 

[dlh331]

The next night UK beat #16 La Salle by 13 points. La Salle would go on to win the NCAA title when the Cats sat out the tourney.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Highway robbery.

Tickets in the 70s to see Led Zeppelin at freedom hall were less than $30 adjusted.

 

[K86]

I was cleaning out my parents house recently and I found a box of my Dad's old stuff in the attic. Included was a ticket stub to the 1953 UKIT. It would have cost you a whopping two dollars and fifty cents to go to Memorial Coliseum and watch #2 UK defeat #13 Duke 85-69. Imagine how exciting it would be to watch UK beat Duke in the opening round of a Christmas tournament in Memorial Coliseum. Future Maryland coach Lefty Driesell played for Duke. Cliff Hagan and Frank Ramsey combined for 46 points for the Cats.
My Dad was a freshman at WKU in 1952. The box also had his uniform from the 1952 Kentucky-Ohio All Star Game. Dad told me years ago that WKU's Coach Ed Diddle chose all his recruits to play against the Ohio team. It was nothing like the Kentucky -Indiana All Stars but still a big deal for Dad. I also found a recruiting letter from Coach Diddle to my father written in the Spring of 1952. He asked my father to come tryout at Western during the summer. My father played freshman ball for the Hilltoppers but never made the varsity after that.

That’s a great story!!!

 

[DreadLox]

Tickets in the 70s to see Led Zeppelin at freedom hall were less than $30 adjusted.

I saw The Who in Ohio in 69. I think the tix were $8.

 

[Fat-so]

Didn't realize Lefty played for Duke.

Yeah, that's part of the legacy of Dean Smith stealing Charlie Scott from Lefty also. If anyone doesn't know about that story go read it right now. It's sad. It's heartbreaking. But it ends well. Its ashamed Lefty got done the way he did by Dean. Smith. Lefty was doing big things at small places.

 

[Fat-so]

Also I apologize for hijacking the thread and switching the subject. Very interesting stuff by the OP. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Fat-so]

Does anyone know why we quit playing the UKIT? It was around the scandal era and Eddie Sutton that we last played it, but I just wondered why we stopped playing it. At one point it look like some nice teams in it. Like power conference teams. Then it seem to start getting watered down and we couldn't even win the last 2 UKITs. I may do some reading on this but if anyone knows any info it'd be appreciated.

 

[Ukheadhunter]

Does anyone know why we quit playing the UKIT? It was around the scandal era and Eddie Sutton that we last played it, but I just wondered why we stopped playing it. At one point it look like some nice teams in it. Like power conference teams. Then it seem to start getting watered down and we couldn't even win the last 2 UKITs. I may do some reading on this but if anyone knows any info it'd be appreciated.

I remember hearing that it was becoming very difficult to get any other power 5 type schools to come into Rupp without a return game at their place. The overall landscape of college basketball has drastically changed since the days of the UKIT.

 

[Fat-so]

I remember hearing that it was becoming very difficult to get any other power 5 type schools to come into Rupp without a return game at their place. The overall landscape of college basketball has drastically changed since the days of the UKIT.

OK. That actually makes sense. Some of those teams at the end weren't return game material. Like a SW Louisiana. Plus you can't be having schools like that winning the UKIT. In some of those years they were some stacked teams in that event looking at it on paper. I remember about two of those and they were probably the probably worse two. Thanks for the information. I started to read on it last night and then my mind got on something else before I could get a complete answer. Sounds about right though. And yes college basketball landscape has changed.

 

[otis-gip]

The big tournaments in Hawaii, New York and at Disney became important for recruiting around the late 1980's. Individual schools were also losing money hosting tournaments. Host schools had to pay huge guarantees to get schools to come play in a tournament like the UKIT. Corporate sponsorships were not common place back then.

 

[TeoJ]

I love to see stuff like the ticket stubs,my dad and zi would always talk about the teams we got to see live I would throw in the 78 CATS and he would counter with he watched the fabulous five in the old Louisville Gardens shut me up every time.
When my dad passed I found a old high school team picture he played for, Sanders High School 1943-44 that I didn't know existed.

 

[Fat-so]

I love to see stuff like the ticket stubs,my dad and zi would always talk about the teams we got to see live I would throw in the 78 CATS and he would counter with he watched the fabulous five in the old Louisville Gardens shut me up every time.
When my dad passed I found a old high school team picture he played for, Sanders High School 1943-44 that I didn't know existed.

Awesome story! Hey though you can't go wrong either way in that conversation. The Fab5 did win the gold and back to back titles, but the 78 team was nice. It just all depends on when you're both. That's the beautiful part about history. Now, if you had told him you got to watch the 20-21 or 1989 teams is when you should've by hushed or been told to watch your mouth, or been grounded lol. I don't care if you was 63 yrs old and had your own home. Lol. Or if you brought up that time how ya got to see the cats play inside Memorial Coliseum. Against UNLV I believe. Grounded again. Lol.

But, ok I'm sorry I got off the track just a little bit. I apologize. Yes sir though, I also like old stuff like tickets stubs, old game programs, the pom poms you used to see them at every college basketball game for years. Oh and the big sponge #1 finger . It's a wonder they haven't came out with a big new #in Crimson or Carolina and KU blue and just go ahead and do every school color. I wished ppl could post pics of things they had like that sometime. I don't even think I can post pics. I love ALL things of UK basketball and that includes the history. No, I'm not a racists. They are other parts we are allowed to be interested in without being so shameful and embarrassed about. I find alot of the old school things fascinating. I don't mean to come off rude but I just don't tip toe around the subject, nor walk on egg shells over anything because I didbt have **** to do with anyone getting mistreated and I'm sorry to the ones who may have been, but still im very interested and will always be most likely.

To any younger folks reading this. Save all those things from cups to programs to whatever else you accumulate at UK games or teams you're fans of. They may not mean much to you in the present, but they have a way of bringing back some good memories at some point down the road. You also never know when you're walking in to a game that just may become a classic in a couple of hours or it may take longer but the point is that you should become a hoarder, bad hoarder and take home things from ball games because someday their will become a time you may be glad you have some of the most silliest, meaningless things you thought you'd never cared for or missed. Maybe you won't anyways, but I'm glad I have alot of those very useful things I have lol that are meaningless to many folks. Everyone needs a wall of blue "3" signs in a man cave or hell why not the kitchen . Its amazing how many of those things I have and they were free, didn't cost me anything except price of admission which is enough, but I'm not the guy who goes picks up everyone I can find in Rupp post game lol, but if they are within grabbing distance and in my way on the way out and nobody else's gonna adopt it then I'll pick it up and take it home. I have alot of nice stuff that not everyone understands is so nice .

 

[Buck Creek Cat]

I have a ticket stub from the first game I saw at Memorial Coliseum in February 1967. Kentucky played LSU and won by about 30, I believe it was 104-74.
It wasn’t a good year for the Cats, they finished 13-13. The year before was the Rupp’s Runts national runner-up team. But Larry Conley and Tommy Kron had graduated and it had a big effect.
The cost of the ticket was $4.00. I was an 11 year old very excited and happy boy that night for my first time to see the Wildcats. And it was great seeing the “man in the brown suit” as some referred to coach Rupp in those days.

 

[otis-gip]

Awesome story! Hey though you can't go wrong either way in that conversation. The Fab5 did win the gold and back to back titles, but the 78 team was nice. It just all depends on when you're both. That's the beautiful part about history. Now, if you had told him you got to watch the 20-21 or 1989 teams is when you should've by hushed or been told to watch your mouth, or been grounded lol. I don't care if you was 63 yrs old and had your own home. Lol. Or if you brought up that time how ya got to see the cats play inside Memorial Coliseum. Against UNLV I believe. Grounded again. Lol.

But, ok I'm sorry I got off the track just a little bit. I apologize. Yes sir though, I also like old stuff like tickets stubs, old game programs, the pom poms you used to see them at every college basketball game for years. Oh and the big sponge #1 finger . It's a wonder they haven't came out with a big new #in Crimson or Carolina and KU blue and just go ahead and do every school color. I wished ppl could post pics of things they had like that sometime. I don't even think I can post pics. I love ALL things of UK basketball and that includes the history. No, I'm not a racists. They are other parts we are allowed to be interested in without being so shameful and embarrassed about. I find alot of the old school things fascinating. I don't mean to come off rude but I just don't tip toe around the subject, nor walk on egg shells over anything because I didbt have **** to do with anyone getting mistreated and I'm sorry to the ones who may have been, but still im very interested and will always be most likely.

To any younger folks reading this. Save all those things from cups to programs to whatever else you accumulate at UK games or teams you're fans of. They may not mean much to you in the present, but they have a way of bringing back some good memories at some point down the road. You also never know when you're walking in to a game that just may become a classic in a couple of hours or it may take longer but the point is that you should become a hoarder, bad hoarder and take home things from ball games because someday their will become a time you may be glad you have some of the most silliest, meaningless things you thought you'd never cared for or missed. Maybe you won't anyways, but I'm glad I have alot of those very useful things I have lol that are meaningless to many folks. Everyone needs a wall of blue "3" signs in a man cave or hell why not the kitchen . Its amazing how many of those things I have and they were free, didn't cost me anything except price of admission which is enough, but I'm not the guy who goes picks up everyone I can find in Rupp post game lol, but if they are within grabbing distance and in my way on the way out and nobody else's gonna adopt it then I'll pick it up and take it home. I have alot of nice stuff that not everyone understands is so nice .

I have a pretty large collection of UK schedule posters, game programs and media guides. I have know idea what I am going to do with it all. It takes up most of my basement. I posted a few of my favorites:
UK photos
1) banquet 1966
2) Floor boards from Memorial Coliseum.
3) A media guide from 65-66.
4) A media guide from my favorite team 77-78.

 

[FtWorthCat]

I miss the UKIT. The students were gone and it was a chance for more tickets for others, and two games in two nights. When Hall was around, there were some strong fields. I wish they could revive it and maybe invite Murray, Western, Eastern, Morehead, NKU, Bellarmine, etc. on a rotating basis. We could easily eliminate one of our many out of conference cupcakes on the recent schedules to accommodate.

 

[Fat-so]

I have a pretty large collection of UK schedule posters, game programs and media guides. I have know idea what I am going to do with it all. It takes up most of my basement. I posted a few of my favorites:
UK photos
1) banquet 1966
2) Floor boards from Memorial Coliseum.
3) A media guide from 65-66.
4) A media guide from my favorite team 77-78.

Thats some good stuff. Nice collection.

 

[P. Fanning]

Awesome story! Hey though you can't go wrong either way in that conversation. The Fab5 did win the gold and back to back titles, but the 78 team was nice. It just all depends on when you're both. That's the beautiful part about history. Now, if you had told him you got to watch the 20-21 or 1989 teams is when you should've by hushed or been told to watch your mouth, or been grounded lol. I don't care if you was 63 yrs old and had your own home. Lol. Or if you brought up that time how ya got to see the cats play inside Memorial Coliseum. Against UNLV I believe. Grounded again. Lol.

But, ok I'm sorry I got off the track just a little bit. I apologize. Yes sir though, I also like old stuff like tickets stubs, old game programs, the pom poms you used to see them at every college basketball game for years. Oh and the big sponge #1 finger . It's a wonder they haven't came out with a big new #in Crimson or Carolina and KU blue and just go ahead and do every school color. I wished ppl could post pics of things they had like that sometime. I don't even think I can post pics. I love ALL things of UK basketball and that includes the history. No, I'm not a racists. They are other parts we are allowed to be interested in without being so shameful and embarrassed about. I find alot of the old school things fascinating. I don't mean to come off rude but I just don't tip toe around the subject, nor walk on egg shells over anything because I didbt have **** to do with anyone getting mistreated and I'm sorry to the ones who may have been, but still im very interested and will always be most likely.

To any younger folks reading this. Save all those things from cups to programs to whatever else you accumulate at UK games or teams you're fans of. They may not mean much to you in the present, but they have a way of bringing back some good memories at some point down the road. You also never know when you're walking in to a game that just may become a classic in a couple of hours or it may take longer but the point is that you should become a hoarder, bad hoarder and take home things from ball games because someday their will become a time you may be glad you have some of the most silliest, meaningless things you thought you'd never cared for or missed. Maybe you won't anyways, but I'm glad I have alot of those very useful things I have lol that are meaningless to many folks. Everyone needs a wall of blue "3" signs in a man cave or hell why not the kitchen . Its amazing how many of those things I have and they were free, didn't cost me anything except price of admission which is enough, but I'm not the guy who goes picks up everyone I can find in Rupp post game lol, but if they are within grabbing distance and in my way on the way out and nobody else's gonna adopt it then I'll pick it up and take it home. I have alot of nice stuff that not everyone understands is so nice .

I am like you, I try to keep as much as I can from games I go to. Sadly, where I am from you don't see many programs at games anymore. Used to just about any kind of tournament a high school hosted over Christmas, or a district/region tournament would have one, now they are harder to find. I know sometimes if I got to feeling down, I'd just go through my collection of ticket stubs/programs or roster sheets and I'd cheer up knowing another game would soon be around the corner.

 

[Fat-so]

I am like you, I try to keep as much as I can from games I go to. Sadly, where I am from you don't see many programs at games anymore. Used to just about any kind of tournament a high school hosted over Christmas, or a district/region tournament would have one, now they are harder to find. I know sometimes if I got to feeling down, I'd just go through my collection of ticket stubs/programs or roster sheets and I'd cheer up knowing another game would soon be around the corner.

Thats odd! I always figured as long as they was a HS basketball game going on somewhere especially a District/Regional tournament then they'd be access to a game program. It's odd though how now in the area I live in you used to show up at the door and pay your $4-5 to get in game, and then at a side table would be programs that the basketball program/booster's sold for $3-4 that were very cheap made and had team and individual pics and told a little about the coach and showed the schedule. Didn't amount to much but it was enough to tell you what was going on. It wasn't put together by Jim Host and that was fine. That's wat made it fun actually.
Girls/Boys were sold separately. It was more of a thing to help the basketball program raise money. They had them before my time and during my time and after, but it's like the older the program the more interesting because they went from having alot of information in them and decently put together for a HS program to less and less info in them and who knows if they still even got a program around here? They should, but I wouldn't know from last couple yrs. it's also the stupidest thing to have to go buy tickets to a HS ballgame that will not be sold out ever. Plus, someone's gotta be there at the door to take the ticket so why not just pay them the money and save ppl hassles. I don't understand the logic behind it.

Also it's not like walking into the same HS games that were the thing to do on Tues/Fri nights growing up and even in my adult years it still had a bit of an excitement feel but I hardly ever go now. Used to never miss. Even did color for awhile for local radio. I don't know if it's from all the ball played all year around or what but ppl act like they rather be anywhere else much of the time. Some still take it way too seriously. Sometimes see some nice talented kid's who can play but they don't act like they half *** care about the game. Alot of the coaches act worse than the kids. I know every generation thinks the same things about the present generations and think everything was better back in the day lol. I'm not saying that it was better, but I'm saying it is different, very different. You can still smell popcorn and squeaking of shoes on the court though so we still have that.

 

[jauk11]

The next night UK beat #16 La Salle by 13 points. La Salle would go on to win the NCAA title when the Cats sat out the tourney.

I was in high school then, in SE KY, and most of the games I listened to with sone high school buddies that had cars, the games weren't on tv in the early 50s. UK was 25 and 0 that year, but couldn't play in the tournament. Why? Because even though they weren't involved in the point shaving scandal they had to sit out their senior season and while they were allowed to play another year after sitting out a year they were 5th year seniors and therefore couldn't play in the postseason, while fifth year seniors playing are common today. They changed the scoreboard to read over 100 points and used it several times, their closest game was about a 10 point win. Ramsey, Hagan, and Tshiropaulos (sp) had great pro careers.

I saw Bill Spivey play an exhibition game against the House of David while he was ineligible,, the first seven footer that had no problem walking and chewing gum at the same time, he was shooting 30 foot windmill hook shots in warmups--------and hitting most of them. It was a sight to see.

 

[JPScott]

I have a pretty large collection of UK schedule posters, game programs and media guides. I have know idea what I am going to do with it all. It takes up most of my basement. I posted a few of my favorites:
UK photos
1) banquet 1966
2) Floor boards from Memorial Coliseum.
3) A media guide from 65-66.
4) A media guide from my favorite team 77-78.

Below is a list of UK games where I have programs included with the boxscore. Not that I own all of these, many were found on places like ebay etc.

List of UK Games with Program Covers

Anyway, if you (or anyone else) happens to have programs from other games, I'd appreciate if you could take a good photo of the cover so that it can be added to the respective boxscore.

Thanks

 

[JPScott]

One aspect of the UKIT that people may not recognize is that it is likely the institution of the UKIT led to the formalization of limited integration in Lexington hotels.

When St. John's visited Kentucky in December 1951, there was concern leading up to it as to the lodging accomodations for their first black player, Solly Walker. It is known that Coach Rupp personally arranged for the entire St. John's team to stay at the Lexington Lafayette hotel. That started a long string of integrated teams visiting Lexington throughout the 1950's and early 1960's, during a time when no other SEC team was doing so.

Basically visiting teams stayed either at the Lafayette or Phoenix hotels, which were the leading hotels in the city at the time. I've never found the evidence for it (yet), but I have to think that while Rupp had been sucessful at getting the hotels to accomodate teams, that some sort of more formalized agreement was in place before the school committed to the UKIT, which started in December 1953 but an event Rupp worked hard to bring together to help showcase the newly opened Memorial Coliseum.

Whatever agreement that was in place, whether formal or not, seemed to work well for the most part. There were some cases where Rupp had to come down personaly to ream out some of the hotel staff but in general visiting teams were able to stay and eat at the hotels without a problem throughout the decade. That doesn't mean, however that other black people could stay. The city was still segregated and generally the policy was that black guests could register to stay as if they were part of a team, but not as an individual. In the late 50's that was later broadened to include black businesspeople who were attending a conference etc. And even later with the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act then that opened up accomodations to anyone.

FWIW, I am planning on writing a webpage talking specifically about this issue, given the recent recounting of the 1961 incident with the Boston Celtics which was mentioned in a recent Bill Russell documentary. The idea was that the Phoenix hotel diner refused to serve some of the black Celtic players (who were in town for an exhibition game vs. the St. Louis Hawks), but that's not quite what happened. In actuality, it was more a big misunderstanding which frankly could have been avoided if cooler heads had prevailed. But it did give Lexington a black eye in the national press, which is unfortunate given that they were some of the very few hotels in the South actually serving black guests at the time, and had been doing so for a decade.

Anyway, if anyone knows of any details around exactly how the hotel policy came into effect, let me know. But I do think that the UKIT very probably played a big role in standardizing the policy.

 

[Backer cutter]

One aspect of the UKIT that people may not recognize is that it is likely the institution of the UKIT led to the formalization of limited integration in Lexington hotels.

When St. John's visited Kentucky in December 1951, there was concern leading up to it as to the lodging accomodations for their first black player, Solly Walker. It is known that Coach Rupp personally arranged for the entire St. John's team to stay at the Lexington Lafayette hotel. That started a long string of integrated teams visiting Lexington throughout the 1950's and early 1960's, during a time when no other SEC team was doing so.

Basically visiting teams stayed either at the Lafayette or Phoenix hotels, which were the leading hotels in the city at the time. I've never found the evidence for it (yet), but I have to think that while Rupp had been sucessful at getting the hotels to accomodate teams, that some sort of more formalized agreement was in place before the school committed to the UKIT, which started in December 1953 but an event Rupp worked hard to bring together to help showcase the newly opened Memorial Coliseum.

Whatever agreement that was in place, whether formal or not, seemed to work well for the most part. There were some cases where Rupp had to come down personaly to ream out some of the hotel staff but in general visiting teams were able to stay and eat at the hotels without a problem throughout the decade. That doesn't mean, however that other black people could stay. The city was still segregated and generally the policy was that black guests could register to stay as if they were part of a team, but not as an individual. In the late 50's that was later broadened to include black businesspeople who were attending a conference etc. And even later with the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act then that opened up accomodations to anyone.

FWIW, I am planning on writing a webpage talking specifically about this issue, given the recent recounting of the 1961 incident with the Boston Celtics which was mentioned in a recent Bill Russell documentary. The idea was that the Phoenix hotel diner refused to serve some of the black Celtic players (who were in town for an exhibition game vs. the St. Louis Hawks), but that's not quite what happened. In actuality, it was more a big misunderstanding which frankly could have been avoided if cooler heads had prevailed. But it did give Lexington a black eye in the national press, which is unfortunate given that they were some of the very few hotels in the South actually serving black guests at the time, and had been doing so for a decade.

Anyway, if anyone knows of any details around exactly how the hotel policy came into effect, let me know. But I do think that the UKIT very probably played a big role in standardizing the policy.

Love threads like this one. I’m certainly not an historian, but it’s fun to learn past history. Thanks JP. This thread emphasizes the reason we need a change. History. We have so much, and it’s being flushed down the drain, ignorantly, intentionally, without a thought. This staff needs to go. Somewhere else. Just go. And the next hire needs to understand tradition.

 

[Fat-so]

Love threads like this one. I’m certainly not an historian, but it’s fun to learn past history. Thanks JP. This thread emphasizes the reason we need a change. History. We have so much, and it’s being flushed down the drain, ignorantly, intentionally, without a thought. This staff needs to go. Somewhere else. Just go. And the next hire needs to understand tradition.

I'm with ya! All history is to many is a joke, or if they don't like the way it was at that time they want to erase it. Too many folks don't care to know how we got to where we currently are and where we've been. That's in all areas of life. If they don't like it then they do whatever they can to keep others from promoting or learning about it.

People are way to sensitive over everything these days. Anything you bring up has to end in an argument. That seems like the rules.

 

[otis-gip]

Below is a list of UK games where I have programs included with the boxscore. Not that I own all of these, many were found on places like ebay etc.

List of UK Games with Program Covers

Anyway, if you (or anyone else) happens to have programs from other games, I'd appreciate if you could take a good photo of the cover so that it can be added to the respective boxscore.

Thanks

Mr. Scott,
First of all, thanks for your wonderful website and all the UK history that you have posted. I have spent many hours looking at it over the years. I have attached a list of the game programs that I have in my possesssion. When I began collecting game programs, my goal was to get at least one from every year since 1960. That was the year I was born. I ended up with much more. I haven't updated my list since 2020. I will update soon. If you want a picture of any particular covers or rosters let me know. I also have most of the media guides as well.
Kentucky Game Programs
My Wildcat

 

[JPScott]

Mr. Scott,
First of all, thanks for your wonderful website and all the UK history that you have posted. I have spent many hours looking at it over the years. I have attached a list of the game programs that I have in my possesssion. When I began collecting game programs, my goal was to get at least one from every year since 1960. That was the year I was born. I ended up with much more. I haven't updated my list since 2020. I will update soon. If you want a picture of any particular covers or rosters let me know. I also have most of the media guides as well.
Kentucky Game Programs
My Wildcat

Thank you very much. I went through the list and have flagged programs which either I'm missing or could stand to get a better photo of the cover. I know it's a lot but if you can scan or take a photo of any of the below that will be helpful. Basically I'm looking for either a flat scan or a straight ahead photo without shadow or flash which I don't have to crop too much. You can take them at high resolution if you want but for the purpose of the website I generally scale the image down to ~400 pixels in width.

Thanks again. Going through these programs some of them truly are works of art in their own right. They give a really good feel for the state of the basketball program and the time period.

Games Missing Program Cover Photos

1/27/1960 Georgia
3/10/1962 Tennessee
12/12/1962 Florida State
12/21/1962 Iowa (UKIT)
1/24/1966 LSU
2/17/1968 Mississippi State

3/14/1970 Jacksonville (NCAA Mideast Regional)
12/13/1975 Kansas
3/6/1976 Alabama
1/7/1978 Florida

2/18/1981 Florida
2/3/1982 Auburn
2/9/1985 Mississippi
11/22/1985 Northwestern State

12/2/1995 Indiana (Bank One Classic)
2/4/1998 LSU

2/13/2000 LSU
1/29/2006 Arkansas
11/15/2006 Miami (OH)
3/17/2009 UNLV (NIT)

12/31/2010 Louisville
1/29/2011 Georgia

3/8/2012 Louisiana State (played 3/9/2012 in SEC Tournament)
3/15/2012 Western Kentucky (NCAA Tournament)
11/18/2014 Kansas (Champions Classic)
12/26/2015 Louisville
2/6/2016 Florida
2/18/2016 Tennessee (?? You have 2/12/2016 listed but they didn't play that date)
2/17/2018 Alabama
12/1/2018 UNC-Greensboro
12/15/2018 Utah
2/16/2019 Tennessee
2/23/2019 Auburn
3/9/2019 Florida
11/8/2019 Eastern Kentucky
12/14/2019 Georgia Tech

Programs Needing Better Photos

1/12/1946 Michigan State

2/16/1960 Vanderbilt
12/17/1960 Temple (Palestra)
2/18/1963 Vanderbilt
3/13/1964 Ohio (NCAA Mideast Regional)
12/2/1967 Michigan
1/29/1968 Ole Miss
2/26/1968 Auburn

1/17/1970 Tennessee
12/17/1971 Missouri (UKIT)
12/2/1972 Michigan State
12/15/1972 Nebraska (UKIT)
12/30/1972 Notre Dame
12/23/1977 Iona
12/16/1978 Indiana

3/7/1980 Florida State (played 3/9/1980 in NCAA 2nd Round)
3/11/1982 Middle Tennessee (NCAA tournament)
3/26/1983 Louisville (NCAA tournament)
3/22/1984 Louisville (NCAA tournament)
1/5/1984 NC State
2/21/1987 LSU

12/7/1994 Indiana
3/7/1997 Auburn (SEC tournament)
12/8/1998 Indiana

3/9/2001 South Carolina (SEC Tournament)
12/21/2009 Drexel

2/27/2013 Mississippi State
12/13/2014 North Carolina
1/12/2016 Mississippi State

 

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Thank you very much. I went through the list and have flagged programs which either I'm missing or could stand to get a better photo of the cover. I know it's a lot but if you can scan or take a photo of any of the below that will be helpful. Basically I'm looking for either a flat scan or a straight ahead photo without shadow or flash which I don't have to crop too much. You can take them at high resolution if you want but for the purpose of the website I generally scale the image down to ~400 pixels in width.

Thanks again. Going through these programs some of them truly are works of art in their own right. They give a really good feel for the state of the basketball program and the time period.

Games Missing Program Cover Photos

1/27/1960 Georgia
3/10/1962 Tennessee
12/12/1962 Florida State
12/21/1962 Iowa (UKIT)
1/24/1966 LSU
2/17/1968 Mississippi State

3/14/1970 Jacksonville (NCAA Mideast Regional)
12/13/1975 Kansas
3/6/1976 Alabama
1/7/1978 Florida

2/18/1981 Florida
2/3/1982 Auburn
2/9/1985 Mississippi
11/22/1985 Northwestern State

12/2/1995 Indiana (Bank One Classic)
2/4/1998 LSU

2/13/2000 LSU
1/29/2006 Arkansas
11/15/2006 Miami (OH)
3/17/2009 UNLV (NIT)

12/31/2010 Louisville
1/29/2011 Georgia

3/8/2012 Louisiana State (played 3/9/2012 in SEC Tournament)
3/15/2012 Western Kentucky (NCAA Tournament)
11/18/2014 Kansas (Champions Classic)
12/26/2015 Louisville
2/6/2016 Florida
2/18/2016 Tennessee (?? You have 2/12/2016 listed but they didn't play that date)
2/17/2018 Alabama
12/1/2018 UNC-Greensboro
12/15/2018 Utah
2/16/2019 Tennessee
2/23/2019 Auburn
3/9/2019 Florida
11/8/2019 Eastern Kentucky
12/14/2019 Georgia Tech

Programs Needing Better Photos

1/12/1946 Michigan State

2/16/1960 Vanderbilt
12/17/1960 Temple (Palestra)
2/18/1963 Vanderbilt
3/13/1964 Ohio (NCAA Mideast Regional)
12/2/1967 Michigan
1/29/1968 Ole Miss
2/26/1968 Auburn

1/17/1970 Tennessee
12/17/1971 Missouri (UKIT)
12/2/1972 Michigan State
12/15/1972 Nebraska (UKIT)
12/30/1972 Notre Dame
12/23/1977 Iona
12/16/1978 Indiana

3/7/1980 Florida State (played 3/9/1980 in NCAA 2nd Round)
3/11/1982 Middle Tennessee (NCAA tournament)
3/26/1983 Louisville (NCAA tournament)
3/22/1984 Louisville (NCAA tournament)
1/5/1984 NC State
2/21/1987 LSU

12/7/1994 Indiana
3/7/1997 Auburn (SEC tournament)
12/8/1998 Indiana

3/9/2001 South Carolina (SEC Tournament)
12/21/2009 Drexel

2/27/2013 Mississippi State
12/13/2014 North Carolina
1/12/2016 Mississippi State

I sent photos of the 1960's programs to your email. If those don't work for you, I will use a scanner to send them.