Adolph Rupp

Adolph Frederick Rupp ( born September 2, 1901 in Halstead, Kansas, † December 10, 1977 in Lexington, Kentucky) was an American basketball coach and an important personality of college sports.

Life and career

As coach of the Kentucky Wildcats, he won in his coaching career 875 games and four times the NCAA championship. According to him, the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky, named. Rupp was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1969. Him the nickname Baron of Bluegrass was given.

Rupp played itself 1919-1923 basketball for the University of Kansas. Since 1930, he coached the team from the University of Kentucky. He sat on the development of local talent, more than 80 % of its players were also born in the state of Kentucky. However, he was also a strong supporter of racial segregation. He was only in 1970 that the first African - American player in his team - long after this was already common in other teams and four years after the all-white Wildcats lost the NCAA final against the purely accumulating with African- Americans, Texas Western College, which is of many was seen as a sign of radical change in college basketball. This event was filmed in 2006 by James Gartner in the movie Glory Road ( Glory Road). Rupp was here represented by Jon Voight.

His team won the championship in 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1958. According to him, the Adolph Rupp Trophy is named, which is awarded to the best male college basketball player of each year since 1972.

He will honor since 1970 in his hometown of Halstead 's annual " Halstead Adolph Rupp Invitational Basketball Tournament " held. It is organized by Halstead High School. 2010 won the basketball team in high school, the Halstead Dragons, the tournament for the sixth time.

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• Profile in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (English)

• Basketball coach (United States)
• Basketball official
• Member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
• Americans
• Born 1901
• Died in 1977
• Man