Adolph Frederick Rupp was an American college basketball coach.
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32 Facts About Adolph Rupp
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Adolph Rupp was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on April 13,1969.
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Adolph Rupp played college basketball at the University of Kansas under coach Phog Allen.
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Adolph Rupp was born September 2,1901 in Halstead, Kansas to Heinrich Adolph Rupp, a German immigrant, and Anna Lichi, a Palatinate immigrant.
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The fourth of six children, Adolph Rupp grew up on a 163-acre farm that his parents had homesteaded.
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Adolph Rupp began playing basketball as a young child, with the help of his mother, who made a ball for him by stuffing rags into a gunnysack.
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Adolph Rupp was a star for the Halstead High School basketball team, one of the first in the area to play with a real basketball.
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Adolph Rupp worked part-time at the student Jayhawk Cafe to help pay his college expenses.
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In 1922, Adolph Rupp pledged and was initiated into the Iota chapter of International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi.
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Adolph Rupp was a reserve on the basketball team under Hall of Fame coach Forrest "Phog" Allen from 1919 to 1923.
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Adolph Rupp received an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Adolph Rupp led the Marshalltown team to a state wrestling title in 1926.
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Adolph Rupp coached the University of Kentucky men's basketball team from 1930 to 1972.
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Adolph Rupp was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa at Kentucky in 1937.
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Adolph Rupp was a 5-time National Coach-of-the-Year award winner, and a 7-time Conference Coach-of-the-Year award winner.
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Further, since 1972, the Adolph Rupp Trophy, considered one of the nation's premier basketball awards, has been given by the Commonwealth Athletic Club to the top men's college basketball player.
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Adolph Rupp was forced into retirement in March 1972, at the age of 70.
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Adolph Rupp was the head coach at Kentucky during the point shaving scandal of 1951.
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Adolph Rupp denied any knowledge of the point shaving and no evidence was ever brought against him to show he was connected to the incident in any way.
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Adolph Rupp was an early innovator of the fast break and set offense.
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Adolph Rupp strongly emphasized the fundamentals of basketball, both on offense and defense, and overall discipline.
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Adolph Rupp believed that excellence was achieved only through repetition, and his practices stressed individual instruction, precision, and continuity.
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Adolph Rupp was very demanding of his players, constantly putting extreme pressure on them in practice, and mercilessly berating them for any mistakes.
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Adolph Rupp wore his new suit to a game, and his team got beaten badly.
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Adolph Rupp hired assistant coach Neil Reed in 1960 to help recruit African-American players and once asked the UK president to leave the SEC so he could recruit black players.
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Adolph Rupp tried his best to sign in-state black players Wes Unseld and Butch Beard before both picked Louisville.
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In June 1973 Adolph Rupp quit as Tams president, calling the ABA "bush league" and saying it "would never survive".
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Three months later, Adolph Rupp was hired as Vice President of the Board of the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association.
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