History of Sports Test: People #2

John Wooden

- Coached at UCLA from 1948-1975 - Won 10 NCAA Championships, in a span of 12 seasons - Won 7 straight no other coach has one more than two straight - 12 Final Fours

History of Women's College Basketball

- 1892 - Senda Barenson adapts the rules for women and introduces the game at Smith College. First inter-institutional contest between University of Cal and Miss Head's School - First intercollegiate game was between Stanford and Cal in 1896 - Sendra Berenson About - Oftern refered to as the mother of womens basketball - Director of physical education at Smith College - 1903: Halves shortened from 20 mins to 15 mins - 1905: Executive Committee on Basketball Rules formed from support of American Physical Education Association - 1910: Dribbling is outlawed - 1913: Officiating first appears in guides, single dribble returns, ball must bounce knee high - 1916: No coaching is allowed on the side line during a game expect during half times - 1971: The Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women is established replaces the CIAW - WJune 23, 1972: Title IX is enecacted by Congress and is signed into law by Richard Nixon - 1972: AIA tournament starts won by Immuculata College called the Mighty Macs and they won the next two after that - Association of Intercollegiate Athetlics for Women - Started in 1971 - Grew rapidly throughout 1970s and paralleled the NCAA in mens programs - Became very successful by gaining corporate sponsors and television coverage of the national championghip games - 1982: Lousiana Tech wins the first NCAA national championship - 1999: The womens Basketball Hall of Fame opens in Knoxville, TN - Jackie Stiles becames the leading scorer in womens basketball in 2001 - Pat Summitt becames the first Division 1 coach to reach 1,000 wins - 2010: The University of Connecticut sets the longest win streak at 90 games - 2015: Geno Auriemma ties John Wooden for 10 National Championships - Originally catholic girls basketball was strictly a womens game and no males were allowed to come besides the fathers - Kathleen Rush was the coach of Immaculata College and she was originally brought into be the director of physical education - She was not catholic

Kentucky Colonels

- Began in 1967 Don Reegan Franchise owner ABA,$30,000, and folded in 1976 - March 6, 1967 An ABA franchise is awarded to Don Regan for $30,000 1967 The franchise is purchased by Joseph E. Gregory, Mamie Gregory and William C. Boone 1969 The franchise is purchased by a group Headed by H. Wendell Cherry and including Bill DeWitt, Stuart Jay, David Jones(started HUMANA), John Y. Brown(KFC)got secret recipe from Colonel Saunders and Mike Storen July 31, 1973 The franchise is purchased by a group headed by John Y. Brown and Ellie Brown, named Ellie Chairman of Board, ended up getting divorced which hurt the team. June 17, 1976 Brown reaches a financial agreement with the remaining teams in the ABA, folding his team for $3 million as part of the ABA/NBA merger agreement - Joe Mulaney - Named after the famous Kentucky Colonles emerging from the Ware of 1812 and redifned through the 1920s and 30s - The original meaning started as a military term and changed to one of honor when they Honorable Order - Played at the Louisville Convention Center and then later Freedom Hall - Owned by Ellie B Moore - An incredible factor of the KY Colonels - Had a mascot, owner's dog, wore bizzare colored uniforms, had first woman to play basketball, she was also a jockey, Penny - The franchise was sold in 1973 to Ellie and John Brown - Ellie brown established an all-female board of directors for the franchise. The board launched an effective ticket-selling campaign across the striahgt and they tripled season ticket sales and doubled overall attendance - New coach was Babe McCarthy and they went 53-51 in the regular season. Lost in the second round of the playoffs to the New Jersey Nets and Dr .J - The first four years were called Pre-Gilmore. Major players were Louie Dampier and Darel Carrier - In 1970 a big scorer Dan Issel joined the team (played at UK) - Only won one championship in 1975 - Coach Hubie Brown - Would sub with a 10 man rotation every 8 mins regardless of game factors - The practices were more intense and players played hard every day - Colonels had 3 HOF players on same team - Only 2 teams to stay in the same city and keep the same name through the entire ABA exsistence - Had the same radio announcer for 9 years his name was Van Vance and he went to Louisville after the Colonels folded - KY Colonels and Indiana Pacers were only teams that stayed loyal to ABA after NBA formed - Teams that failed in the ABA but are in the NBA - Carolina Cougars - Miami Florinans - New Orelans to Utah - Dallas - Houston Mavericks - Oakland Oaks - Los Angeles Stars - Memphis Tams - First commissioner of the ABA was George Mikan who was a famous NBA player - ABA needed to make some differences from the NBA - First thing they did was created the 3 pt shot - Introduced the Red, White, and Blue Basketball - The ABA had to start their own draft to compete to get players from the NBA - Rick Barry was the first player to leave the NBA to go to the ABA - Barry shot all his free throws underhanded and had the highest percentage in the leageue in NBA, ABA, and college - Drafted Dan Issel from Kentucky in 1971 because of the high salary - The Colonels also outbid the NBA the next year for Artis Gilmore - Joe Melanie came from Providence college to coach the Colenels and then Babe McCarthy came and then Hubie Brown - Frank Ramsey coached from 1969-1970 - Colenels were sold to a group of business man and John Lyle Brown was the big leader with his wife Ellie - Brown was the one who bought the recipe for the KFC chicken and he started KFC - This is how they got Issel and Gilmore into the ABA because of their high salary - In 1972 they started having exhibition games between the NBA and the ABA - Players from the ABA in the NBA HOF - Rick Barry - Julius Irving - Billy Cunningham - George McGinnis - Charlie Scott - Artis Gilmore: born in FL, Played at Jacksonville university, led league in field goal percentage for 4 straight seasons - Dan Issel: born in batavia, Illinois, played at UK (Center) averaged 30 points a game at UK drafted by Detroit pistons, but stayed with KY colonels, led league in scoring in rookie season, PLayed PF at KY Colonels - Loui Dampier: Born in indy, averaged 20 points a game in first 3 seasons, 2 time all american, - Larry Brown - Indiana Pacers: did same thing as Kentucky Colonels and went local to build team - ABA was the league who starting signing college players before they graduated from college - Nuggets Drafted Spencer Haywood out of one year of college - ABA brought the 4 best officials over from the NBA - Money became so big among players in the ABA that the cities couldn't afford to have teams - NBA took 4 teams from the ABA and the rest folded- San Antiono Spurs, Indiana Pacers, New York Nets, Denver Nuggets - Last team to go came down to San Antonio and Louisville - Brown wanted help to run the Colonels - He decided to sell Dampier and Issel and made a lot of money and bought the Buffalo Braves a struggling NBA team - Brown wanted to move the Braves to Louisville, but the NBA wouldn't allow him to do so. - He then took over ownership of the Boston Celtics after he sold all the players from the Braves. - Decided to run for governor of Kentucky and sold the Celtics for millions - Defeated by Martha Collins - Milwaukee Bucks and Kentucky Colonels game: - Dr. J: New York Nets, He helped the New York Nets win the ABA championship in 1974 and 1976, before switching to the NBA and joining the Philadelphia 76ers. In 1983 he helped lead the club to a world championship. Upon retiring in 1987, he had played in more than 800 games, scoring an average of 22 points per game. - Kentucky Colonels were better than University of Louisville, even with Denny Crum, - 1974-75 Ky colonels, with 3 all stars, won almost every game, Denny Crum & Adolph Rupp went to final four that year and KY Colonels got more coverage than them, best franchise in all of basketball, in exhibition games the ABA always had better record than the NBA teams - Golden State Warriors vs Kentucky Colonels: best teams in NBA/ABA, there was a game scheduled in Freedom hall, Colonels won 93-90 without Dan Issel in 1975 - If John Y Brown took Ky Colonels into NBA they'd be short of money and small program like Portland team - John Y Brown's son went to USC, and his daughter went to Bellarmine,

Dean Smith

- Coached North Carolina from 1961-1997 - Retired with 879 wins, most at the time of retirement - Two Championships - 11 Final Four Appearnces

Pat Summit

- Coached at Tennesee from 1974 to 2012 - Record of 1,098-208 a .841 winning percentage - 8 NCAA tournament wins - Never had a losing season

Adolph Rupp

- Farm boy, father passed away and went to his older brother - Became interested in basketball after Holstead High won back to back state championships - Rup grew and enrolled at Kansas University - Coached at Kentucky in 1930, won 4 National Titles and went to Final Four six times - Rupp ended his career in 1972 due to mandatory retirement age -team was called Rumps Runts and it was an all-white team in 1966

Title 9

- Formal title is Sex Discrimination in Education - Education Amendements of 1972 - Signed by Richard Nixon - A comprehensive federal law prohibits disciminiation on the basis os sex in any federally funded education program or activity - To avoid using federal money to support sex discrimination in education programs - To prodivde individual citizens effective protection against those practices - Designed to correct imbalances between mens and womens sports - Enforce equal access and quality - Dealt with resources such as locker rooms and medical training - 3 tests were used - Proportionality- same percentage of athletic opprotunites as the percentage of women in student body - Progress- make up for days when women had fewer oprrotunities - Satisfied interests- if interetes are satisfied - Since title IX growth in number of women who participate in sports, receive scholarships, benefit from increased budgets - More opprotunities for women to compete at elite levels - D3- aren't allowed to give athletic scholarships, but have more institutional money, give out academic scholarships, able to give out "leadership scholarships" - D2- 1 year scholarships, determine ones scholarships year by year, some schools can increase and decrease, BU usually tries not to increase, NCAA states situations in which you can take away scholarship - D1- head count sports, men and womens basketball, football and volleyball, everyone gets equal amount of $ - People say that Title IX can have negative impact on men's sports - Fails to take gender's levels of interest into consideration - Patsy Mink

Coach K

- Head coach at Duke - All-time Coaching Record of 1,018-310. Most all-time wins in Men's College Basketball. Second all-time behind Pat Summitt - Five NCAA Championships and 12 Final Fours - Won Four Gold Medals coaching various USA Olympic Basketball teams

Kentucky vs Louisville

- Kentucky Vs. Louisville - Two largest universities in the state of Kentucky - Mostly a basketball rivalry but football has a tradition as well - Football game is for the Governor's Cup, first game was played on October 28th, 1912 and UK won 41-0 met 26 times and UK leads 14-13 - Basketball game is battle of the Bluegrass - First game was February 13th, 1913 and UK won 34-10 - Named the 3rd best basketball rivalry by Dick Vitale

Louisville NFL

- Louisville NFL team came into the league in 1921 a year after the beginning of the league. Team was originally named the Breckenridges and then it later changed to the colonels. - Played at a park called Eclipse - Cigarette started a fire and the park burned down in 1922. - All of the players were from Louisville and worked in the city of Louisville, most worked at American Air Filter. - Erin Hurtzman paid 25 dollars to have a franchise in Louisville. - First game in Louisville history drew in 2,000 people and the owner gave most of the money he earned that game to a memorial for a man who died fighting in WWI from Jeffersonville, IN - Started playing there games at Parkway field where the Louisville Colonels minor league baseball team played, and hints why the team changed the name. - Many of the players didn't want to travel and play all the time and people started to find other things to do in the 20s. - Hurtzman managed to keep ownership of his team for a good amount of years, until they didn't win a game in a season and people started to become disinterested in 1926.

AFL Beginning

- Merger of the AFL and the NFL - The AFL started with a man named Lamar Hunt - Became upset after the Dallas Texans folded and left the NFL and he couldn't understand why Dallas couldn't support a NFL team - Chicago had 2 NFL teams at the time the Bears and the Cardinals and the Bears were much more popular - Lamar Hunt tried to move the Cardinals to Dallas and it was not working. - The Cardinals ended up moving to St. Louis and then to Phoenix - Hunt decided to start his own league called the AFL in 1960 - 8 teams were created in the AFL in the 1960s - Boston- Patriots (NE) - Buffalo- Bills - Houston- Oilers- now the Tennessee Titans - New York- Titans now the Jets - Dallas- Texans now the Kansas City Cheifs - Denver- Broncos - Los Angles- Chargers- now San Diego - Oakland- Raiders

Continued NFL AFL Merger and NFL Beginning

- NFL was created in the 1920 - In 1921 Green Bay Pakers, Still around today, name comes from packing company - Only main competition was the AFFC which was absorbed by the NFL - AFL signed mostly players from African American predominant colleges and players who didn't make the NFL - NFL adopted some of the AFL rules such as the 14-game season, players last name on jersey, and the two point conversion - NFL used their national connections with writers television and other media to out compete the AFL - Jets signed Joe Naimith to a $470,00 contract which was higher than anyone in the NFL - The AFL then singed a 36 million dollar contract with NBC for 5 years - They made an agreement that once a players signed with a team in one of the leagues he couldn't sign to a team in the other league. - Merger was initiaited by the NFL - Merger was discussed without owners and the knowledge of the AFL commissioner Al Davis - Merger was announced on June 8th in 1966 - Under the agreement: - The leagues would combine forming a 24 team league and teams would be added in the following years - All existing franchises would be retained - Common draft would be held - Leagues maintainted separate schedules and agreed to the AFL-NFL world championship game - In 1970 they created two separate conferences the NFC and the AFC - Bill Curry played football at Georgia Tech and coached Alabama after he retired from professional football, the Alabama fans didn't like him because he wasn't an Alabama alumni and he was bought out by the boosters and he eventually went to coach at Kentucky. - Decatur Stayles--> Chicago Bears--> Racing Cardinals--> Chicago--> St. Louis--> Arizona - Average ticket price was $6 for the first Super Bowl and there were 33,000 empty seats. - Game used to be in January after the college football New Year day bowl games were over - NFL and AFL played their league championship games before New Years Day - Pete Rozelle became the NFL commissioner after Bert Bell and when the merge happened he remained the commissioner. He had the longest reign as commissioner. - First two Super Bowls were not called the Super Bowl it was renamed that long after the games - News media helped make Hunts nickname of the Super Bowl famous, his grand kids were playing with a toy called a super ball and he said it as a joke - "Super Men" rules change, stonger, specialized positions - In 1958 NFL Championship Game - AFL founded in 1960 - Fans, Money and Players - Super bowl 1, Green Bay vs Kansas City Chiefs, Vince Lombardi was Packers coach - NFL-AFL Championship game for the first two games, Super Bowl wasn't around until the 3rd

Beginning of NHL

- NHL began in 1917 during WWI - There were two other leagues just as equal as the NHL the Pacific Coast League and the Western Canada League and these two leagues died in the 1930s during the depression - When the NHL began it was predominately in large cities in Canada. - In 1924 the first American city entered the NHL was Boston (Bruins) - Through the depression and WWII only 6 teams stayed in the league and they were called the original six(1942-1967): - Montreal Canadians - Toronto Maple Leafs - Boston Bruins - Chicago Blackhawks - Detroit Red Wings - New York Rangers - Hockey didn't grow in the 50s and most of the 60s - In 1967 after the popularity of the NFL and AFL and the television deals made, the NHL decided they wanted to expand - The Original Six became the Eastern Conference and they added expansion teams to the Western Conference: - Los Angeles Kings - St. Louis Blues - Philadelphia Flyers - Pittsburgh Penguins - Minnesota North Stars - Oakland Seals - 1972 the World Hockey League was created and their main goal was to go after the NHL stars, but it only lasted for 7 years until it collapsed into the NHL - Bobby Hall was one of the most famous players to play in the NHL and in 1974 he signed a 2.75 million dollar one year contract to play in the WHL for the Winnipeg Jets - In 1979 only 4 cities survive and the rest are disbanded

George Halas

- Nicknamed Papa Bear and Mr. Everything - A player/owner - Considered the real founder of the NFL - Came into the league as a coach in 1920 for the Decatur Staley's. - Ended up owning the team for the next 63 years and moved them to the Chicago and stayed there until 1920 - 1983. - Played football/baseball/and basketball at Illinois and received a degree in civil engineering. - Joined the Navy for a few years close to the end of the war. - First love of his was baseball and he played professional baseball and football - Played his way up through the minor leagues and played 12 games for the Yankees. - Then became a player/coach for the Staley's and became the owner shortly after. - Made the color of the Chicago team the same as the university of Illinois. - First guy to decide that to make the Bears popular he played all the games at Wrigley Field - Signed Red Grange and helped with Halas make the Bears so popular - First playoff game in the NFL in 1932 was played inside due to the coldness and the Bears won 9-0 - Goal posts were moved up to the goal line to fit them inside and it stayed that way until the 60s - Started to allow plays to begin inside the hash marks - Allowed forward passes to be anywhere behind the line of scrimmage instead of 5 yards. - 1936 was the first NFL draft and the first player drafted was Jay Berwanger the Heisman winner from that year, but he refused to play NFL football - By 1941 the NFL had 3 presidents, but they decided to have a commissioner like baseball

Paul Hornung

- Paul Hornung was born in Louisville, Kentucky and went to Flaget High School - Lettered in football, baseball, and basketball all 4 years. - Chose ND over UK and won the Heisman trophy award in 1956, didn't start until his junior season and became the QB the year he won the Heisman - 1st player selected in the 1957 draft by the Green Bay Packers - Nicknamed The Golden Boy - Vince Lombardi called him the most versatile player in the history of the game - Averaged 16 pts a game, and led the GB Packers to 4 NFL Championships - Award named after him in College football for the most versatile playe - During the Cold War he was called into duty, president John Kennedy gave him a week pass to play in the Title game - Known as a party boy and had gambling problem, he got caught betting on pro and college football and was suspended for 1 year - Appeared in a couple of films - 2 time pro bowl selection, 2 all-pro selection, and 4 time NFL Champion, won the MPV in 1961. - He was the Golden Boy of the NFL, he was one of the five players to win a Heisman and NFL MVP.

Pistol Pete Maravich

- Pete Maravich born in Pennslyvania - His father was a player-coach in the Serbian professional leagues - His father was very demanding that pete practiced every day - Played varsity basketball as an eigth grader at Daniel High School - Earned the nickname "Pistol" his senior year because of his style of shooting from the side - Wanted to play for West Virgina, but his dad was the coach at LSU so that is where he went - NCAA rules prohibited Freshman from playing on the Varsity team - Became the NCAA All-Time leading scorer despite only playing three years and having no three point line - Three time consensus All-American - Two Time Player of the Year - Never played in the NCAA tournament - Finished with 3,366 points in his career over 3 years - Drafted by the Atlanta Hawks 3rd pick in the 1970 draft - His rookie season he played in 81 games and averaged 23.2 pts per game and he was on the NBA All-Rookie team - His third season he averaged 26.1 pts per game and had 6.9 assists - In 1972-1973 season him and his teammate Lou Hudson became the only players on the same team to both score 2,000 points in the same season - Traded to the New Orleans Jazz in 1974 - His best season was 1976-1977 he averaged 31.1 pts per game - Injuruies slowed him down in the last 5 years - Retired after 1980 season - Played in 658 games and averaged 24.2 pts and 5.4 assists - Collapsed and died in 1988 from a heart failure while playing a pick-up basketball game in the gym at a church - Consistently ranked between 2-5 on the All-Time Greatest College Basketball Players lists - Elected into the basketball HOF in 1987 - Frank Selvy was born in Kentucky - Known as "The Corbin Comet" - All-state basketball player at Corbin High School - Chose to play at Furman University because he was more concerned with education - Won scoring title 3 years at Furman University - A consensus All-American his junior and senior season - Scored 100 pts his senior night and only player to do so until 2012

St. X Trinity Rivalry

- Saint X opened in 1864 - Trinity opened in 1953 - Trinity wins the first football game 7-6, rivalry started in 1956, 41-37-2 - Trinity wins first state championship in 1968 - 1974 Flaget High School closes (Paul Horning) - Battle for the shillalah - Two catholic traditions - Alumni involvement - Over 30,000 fans in Papa Johns Cardinal Stadium - Overall record (37-36-2) Trinity - Saint Xavier vs Flaget - Saint Xavier and Flaget rivalry started in 1944 when Flaget opened and it was the game between the students who lived in the West End vs the people who lived Downtown and south. - Always played the second weekend in November and they played it at Parkway Field and it moved as well in 1956 to Cardinal Stadium - When Trinity first opened it was hard to get students until the Bishop forced kids to go to Trinity unless they had a brother at St.X or Flaget - 106 boys in the first class - First game between St.X and Trinity didn't happen until 1957 until Trinity had a senior class and they played it the first Sunday in November at Cardinal Stadium and it drew a small crowd - St. X Trinity rivalry started when the Flaget game started to die out and the school closed - Back then college wasn't important until the 1960's

History of College Basketball

- Scandals of 1951 included CCNY, Long Island, New York University, Manhattan - Ed Poppy was the leading scorer at Manhattan and was the main man behind the points shaving, when his other teammate who helped him graduate he had to find another person - Poppy offered money to shave points to G.I. an African American who came in, and he reported it to the coach and eventually the FBI came in and investigated - G.I. was told to agree to the points shaving and they put a wire on him and Poppy was arrested - Poppy ratted out all the players and bookies involved in the point shaving and it was later found that 7 schools were involved - Toledo, Bradley, and Kentucky University were also included - 3 of the Fab 5 were involved in the point shaving Alex Groza, Ralph Beard, Dale Barnstable - The three players were found guilty and they were suspended from the NBA for 3 years but they never ended up playing - Kentucky was given the death penalty in 1952-1953 in efforts to clean up basketball - In 1953 Kentucky came back and 3 of their better players came back Cliff Hagan, Frank Ramsey, and Lou Tsioropoulos - Team went 25-0 - They did not participate in the NCAA tournament because the players graduated and the NCAA wouldn't give them another year of eligibility - Rupp won the championship in 1958 with the Fiddling Five and they never had to leave the state of Kentucky in the NCAA tournament - In 1956 the first year Louisville played in Freedom Hall - Peck Hickman coached Louisville in the 1950s and his team went to 5 NIT's - They won the NIT in 1956 - Charlie Tyra went to Atherton and he played a major role in the 1956 team - Gene Kenny coached basketball at Bellarmine University, he was hit by a drunk driver coming into down from Bardstown - Bellarmine hired Alex Groza to coach that year along with an assistant Jim Spalding - Groza was told to coach baseball as well and Spalding coached cross country and track - Bellarmine played in the NCAA tournament in 1963 for the first time on their home floor at Knights Hall - Third championship and point shaving scandal (1951)[edit] - Coming off a successful but titleless 1950 season, the Wildcats continued their dominance into the new decade. Over the season Kentucky would defeat four top 15 teams including four top 10 teams, and would be ranked in the top 5 the entire season. And with only one loss heading into the SEC tournament it looked like Kentucky would once again claim both SEC championships and their dominance over their conference. Vanderbilt had a different idea however, and would knock off the top ranked Wildcats in the SEC tournament finals denying them an eighth straight SEC tournament title. Kentucky was determined to not repeat the result it had in the SEC tournament in the NCAA finals, where they defeated fourth ranked Kansas State 68-58. Adolph Rupp was the head coach at Kentucky during the year of the point shaving scandal of 1951. In 1945 former Kentucky football player Nick Englisis met Kentucky basketball legend Ralph Beard while the two played football at Kentucky. Englisis entered the gambling business when he left the football team in 1946, then approached three Kentucky basketball players Ralph Beard, Alex Groza, and Dale Barnstable with his associates in late 1948 about potentially point shaving (fixing the score of games) during the upcoming season in exchange for money. The three players agreed to point shave and successfully shaved points in several games during the 1948-1949 season until an effort to point shave caused the Wildcats to lose to the Loyola Ramblers in the National Invitation Tournament. Groza, Beard, and Barnstable attempted to win the game under the point spread but kept the score too close, allowing the Ramblers to win the game with an impressive performance at the end of the second half. Kentucky faced Villanova in their first game of the NCAA Tournament following the loss to Loyola and the three players attempted to win over the point spread. When Groza, Beard, and Barnstable failed to win over the point spread, it caused Englisis to lose all of his money and ended the point shaving deals between Englisis and these three players.[20] On October 20, 1951, Alex Groza, Ralph Beard, and Dale Barnstable were arrested for taking bribes from gamblers to shave pointsduring several games including the National Invitation Tournament game against the Loyola Ramblers in the 1948-49 season.[21][22] - At the conclusion of this scandal, a subsequent NCAA investigation found that Kentucky had committed several rule violations, including giving illegal spending money to players on several occasions, and also allowing some ineligible athletes to compete.[22] As a result, the Southeastern Conference voted to ban Kentucky from competing for a year and the NCAA requested all other basketball-playing members not to schedule Kentucky, with eventually none doing so.[23] As a result of these actions, Kentucky was forced to cancel the entire 1952-53 basketball season. Years later, Walter Byers, the first executive director of the NCAA, unofficially referred to this punishment as the first de facto NCAA death penalty, despite the current rule first coming into effect in 1985, thus the NCAA having no such enforcement power previous to that.[24][25] Echoing Mr. Byers' view, the NCAA's official stance is very much the same, and they now state in hindsight, "In effect, it was the Association's first death penalty, though its enforcement was binding only through constitutional language that required members to compete against only those schools that were compliant with NCAA rules. Despite fears that it would resist, Kentucky accepts the penalty and, in turn, gives the NCAA credibility to enforce its rules." [26] - Undefeated but no tournament (1954)[edit] - The team returned with a vengeance the next year, posting a perfect 25-0 record (Rupp's only undefeated season), for which it was awarded the 1954 Helms National Championship. In addition, Kentucky also finished ranked No. 1 in the final Associated Press poll. On the team were three players who had graduated at the conclusion of the previous academic year. When, at the last minute, the NCAA ruled these players ineligible from post-season play, Rupp decided to skip the 1954 NCAA Tournament in protest.[27]

History of NBA

- Started predominantly in small cities and moved to bigger cities - In 1949 after WWII the NBA officially began as a league and there were 17 teams - In 1950 there were only 11 teams left and in 1954 there were just 8 teams left - Hawks- Tri/Cities, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Atlanta - Royals- Rochester, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Sacramento - Lakers- Minneapolis, Los Angeles - Nationals- Syracuse, Philadelphia - Warriors- Philadelphia, Golden State - Pistons- Fort Wayne, Detroit - Celtics- Boston - Knicks- New York - The reason the NBA started was because of the big man George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers - Considered the first big man of the NBA - Red Auerbach- coach of the Boston Celtics coached from 1950-1966 and then became the GM until 1984 - 10 of his players are in the basketball HOF - Wherever the Celtics played when the game was out of hand he pulled out a cigar and smoked it on the sidelines - Bob Cousy- The second biggest star in the NBA and considered the reason why the NBA started called the Houdini of the hardwood. - Bill Russell- All-American center in the mid 50s and went to San Francisco University and was drafted by the Hawks and Auerbach traded Ed Mcaulley and Cliff Hagan two future HOFs to get Bill Russell - First big man who was agile and could run the floor which lead to Aurbach running the fast break - After his career Russell coached a few years for the Celtics - Considered one of the first African American men to be respected in the NBA - Not a lot of African Americans in the NBA until around 1957 - The NBA came up with the 24 second shot clock because of Cousy because he would just run the clock out and teams got frustrated. - Frank Ramsey became known as the 6th man and made the name famous, played for Kentucky and then played professionally for the Celtics under Auerbach - In the 1960s Oscar Robinson for the Royals became one of the most famous player - Wilt Chambrelain played for the Lakers from 1959-1973 called Chairman of the Board, Wilt the Stilt, and the Big Dipper - He is the only person to average over 40 pts a game in a year, 50 pts a game in a year, and last and only player to score 100 pts in a single game in the NBA, won 7 scoring championships, 11 rebounding titles, 9 field goal percentage titles, - Big man 7"1 250 his rookie season - After he retired after 14 years he averaged 31.1 pts a game, 22 rebounds a game - He tried to start a male professional volleyball league, but nobody could challenge him - In a movie called Conan the destroyer and he never married, great business man - NBA tried to do a territory draft where the NBA team closest to a college had first draft rights - Chicago got an expansion franchise in 1962 and one of its first exhibition games was here at Knights Hall - Lasted one year and then folded - During the NBA/ABA days the NBA moved into Portland, Cleveland, New Orleans - ABA more fast break style of play, used american colored ball - ABA tapped into southern market - ABA had 3 point shot, Louie Dampier put on a show - ABA hired best Refs, Rick Barry played with Oakland Oaks,

Patsy Mink

- lady who started the entire process of Title IX - Mink is a minority and she wanted to play sports but the school she went to didn't allower her to play basketball because they thought it was too strenuous for girls - Had a 4.0 GPA and applied for 12 diffferent medical schools and was rejected from all of them because she was a woman - Ended up getting into a law school and became a lawyer and became the congresswoman of Hawaii - In 2009 Western Kentucky started to drop mens sports to have an access womens sports to raise money for the football program.

Wayne Gretzky

- played from 1979 to 1999 and is considered the greatest hockey player of all time even better than Howe and Hall - His first professional season was in the WHL for Edmonton until they disbanded after that season - Called the Great one and the greatest hockey player to ever live - Held 61 NHL records after retirement and as of today he still owns 60 - Broke all of Howe and Halls record - NHL records for goals and assists - Once he retired in 1999 he was immediately voted into the HOF - He wore #99 and it was retired by the NHL and nobody is allowed to wear the number anymore - Minnesota North Stars moved to Dallas in 1989 and are called the Dallas Stars because it was hard to make hockey popular with the Minnesota Vikings - Hartford Whalers moved to Carolina and are called the Carolina Hurricanes and are successful in the south the first team to move into a southern region

Kentucky FAB 5

- the Fabulous 5 at Kentucky in 1948 consisted of Alex Groza and Ralph Beard who were 2 All-Americans and some of the greatest to play at U.K. the others were Kenny Rollins, Dale Barnstable, Wah War Jones - They were also the starting 5 for the Olympic Team

Bert Bell

-1st official commissioner of NFL after Laydon -Became upset after the Dallas Texans folded and left the NFL and he couldn't understand why Dallas couldn't support a NFL team

Pete Rozelle

-Commissioner after Bert Bell -longest reign as commissioner

Elmer Laydon

-Commissioner of NFL during WWII -Famous for member of 4 horseman of ND

Vince Lombardi

-One of the greatest football coaches of all time -Won the first two super bowls with the GB Packers

Bobby Knight

-The General -Won 902 games, 2nd ALL Time -was one of college basketball's most successful and innovative coaches, having perfected and popularized the motion offense. -Coached at IU, Texas Tech, Army

Johnny Unitas

-born in Pittsburgh -Most overlooked player of all-time because of his size and weight -Went to Louisville -Louisville de-emphasized football in 1952 and took away scholarships making the players left have to play both sides of the ball, and Unitas played all over the place. - Unitas had 10 Pro Bowl selections, 47 game streak of scoring a touchdown, 5 AP First Team All-Pro, 4 MVP, 3 NFL Championships, 1st Super Bowl Win - Nicknamed Golden Arm because he was one of the first to start throwing the ball more in the NFL - 1st quarterback to call his own plays and he changed the way football was viewed.

Joe Naismith

-made the AFL popular -his nickname was Broadway Joe and he led the Jets to an upset in Super Bowl 3 after beating the Baltimore Colts

Gordie Howe

-played in the professional hockey league from 1946-1980, won 4 Stanley cups -Played for the Red Wings until 1971 and dominated the record books and entered the HOF in 1972 and they called him Mr. Hockey because of all the records that he held. - Had two sons Mark and Marty Howe who were signed by the Houston team in the WHL and it was his dream to play on the ice with his sons and he signed for Houston in 1974 and played until 1979. -Voted to the NHL all-star team 23 times -Elected into the HOF in 1983

Bobby Hall

-was one of the most famous players to play in the NHL and in 1974 he signed a 2.75 million dollar one year contract to play in the WHL for the Winnipeg Jets

Walter Byars

In 1951 first executive director of the NCAA is created and Walter Byars takes the role and stays there until 1987 - Byars was the one who suggested that Kentucky receive the death penalty to the SEC - The SEC then didn't allow Kentucky to play basketball in 1952 or 1953 - He didn't particularly like that Kentucky had an association that raised money for athletics only - Came up with all the rules for how many games each team could play in different sports - He came up with the seasons and when teams could start practicing - Full scholarships included books, tuition, board, lab fees were paid for, and a small portion of money for laundry - Came up with rules for how games were televised 951 Walter Byars- 1st Ncaa executive director (1951-1987) - Enforcement - Radio--> Media - Division I, II, III - Athletic Scholarships - Freshman Eligibility happened in 1968 - IN 1972 Freshman allowed to play Basketball in NCAA Gave UK death penalty for 1952-53 season Wanted to make example out of Uk since they were well known. Uk had money coming in strictly for athletics and not the school. Byars thought this was corrupted so he went after them Considered "Adolph Hitler" of College sports Created rules for how many games, practices teams could have Athletes with full scholarships were originally given $15/month for laundry b/c of Byars Started the Tv concept especially for football. They originally played one game a week on TV. 2 Platoon football came into existence in the 60's- Players stopped playing both ways Byars decided there needed to be new rules now Admissions- 1.6 Rule- combo of ACT/SAT score and High school GPA (1965-1973) Pretty much a C- Championships would have a college division and a University Division Games between university and college division teams were normal and counted 1965- Football- 105 scholarships, 20 walk ons Basketball - 15 scholarships, 5 scholarship freshman 1968- Freshman were now eligible to play except for football and basketball 1972- Freshman became eligible in all sports because of title IX To have women's teams schools had to get rid of freshman teams in order to pay for womens teams 1973- Division I II III created. Bigger schools wanted to get rid of smaller schools so this was the solution. DIII- No athletic money DII- Some scholarships DI- More scholarships than DII DI DII- Scholarship amounts were different for each sport 1975- Football down to 95 scholarships, 20 walk ons Basketball down to 15 1985- Football down to 85 & 20 Basketball down to 13 Games between teams in different divisions stopped happening. 1973- Scholarships went from 4yrs to 1 yr 2.0 rule introduced- had to have 2.0 in high school to get in to college Byars despised this rule along with freshman eligibility Byars felt that when you went to a bowl game, you shared the money with the conference you are in. 1983- Teams got more money the further they went in the NCAA tournament for basketball. Byars wanted to change this so he created the presidential commission. This takes money from NCAA tourney and shares it with DII and DIII Presidential Commission also got rid of 2.0 rule and in 1984 Proposition 48 introduced Prop 48- 700 SAT- 15 ACT -> today would be 900 SAT and 17 ACT due to scoring changes - Before 1984 D1,D2, and D3 all had to follow the same rules - In 1984 the Presidents commission is formed in the NCAA and everything changed - Now D1 rules are different from D2 and D3 - D1 is nearly doubled in size from when it started - When you go from D2 to D1 you have to wait 5 years before you can play in the tournament and you have to pay 5 million dollars - Standards are much different between NCAA and NAIA, lose admissions rules in the NAIA - Proposition 48 puts a limit on students G.P.A and standardize test scores - Bobby Knight spoke out highly against the Presidents Commission - He didn't like that the presidents were making the rules for the athletics department and the athletic director didn't - He also didn't like that scholarships were taken away by school professors and D1 went from 15 to 13 and it was done for financial reasons - Byars tripled the amount of schools that came into the NCAA after he retired

Lamar Hunt

Started the AFL *tried to expand NFL but failed so thats why he created AFL