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Adolph Rupp
Born in Halstead, Kansas, Rupp attended the University of Kansas from 1919 to 1923. Adolph Rupp was a member of the Kansas 1922 and 1923 Helms Foundation National Championship teams. Learning from the greatest Kansas basketball coach, Phog Allen, Rupp went on to coach at the University of Kentucky. Coaching 41 seasons and amassing 876 wins with just 190 losses, at the time Rupp surpassed his former coach Phog Allen as the winningest college coach of all time. Since then, that record has been broken. Currently, Rupp is third all time in men™s basketball victories and fourth all time in college victories. He also has the second highest winning percentage for any basketball coach all time with an .822 percentage. Rupp™s accolades consist of four National Coach of the Year awards, South Eastern Conference Coach of the Year seven times; he co-coached the 1948 Olympic team. As a coach, he guided his team to 27 SEC titles, an NIT championship, and four NCAA championships. As coach, 25 of his players earned All-America status and 31 of his players went on to play basketball professionally. On April 13, 1969, Adolph Rupp was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2006, Rupp was also inducted into the Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. A year after Kentucky moved into its™ brand new arena named after Rupp, he passed away at the age of 76 on December 10th 1977. That night, the University of Kansas honored Rupp with œAdolph Rupp Night at Allen Fieldhouse while getting defeated by the Wildcats. He is buried at the Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky. Teams: Basketball (Men's) 1920 Basketball (Men's) 1921 Basketball (Men's) 1922 Basketball (Men's) 1923 Basketball (Men's) 1919 [Head Coach] Basketball 1948 [Special Admittance] Olympian 1948 - Basketball Assistant Coach, gold medal National Champion 1922 - Basketball (Men's) 1923 - Basketball (Men's) Conference Champion 1923 - Basketball (Men's) National Hall of Fame 1969 - Basketball (Men's) Return to Search Results ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |




















































































































