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re: Anyone recall the Louisville fan talking trash on this site?
Posted on 12/29/13 at 11:05 pm to UofLCards83
Posted on 12/29/13 at 11:05 pm to UofLCards83
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I give you all credit for recruiting black players to a university who's arena is named after one of the biggest racists in all of sports, who, if he had his way, would have never allowed black players to play. Those must be some nice paychecks.
Adolph Rupp's high school team in Freeport, Illinois in 1927. Rupp was the first coach at Freeport to have a black player, whom he started, on his team there. He was also only the 2nd black student to graduate from the school.
But you're totally right, Kentucky paychecks made him do that.
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Posted on 12/29/13 at 11:09 pm to BluegrassBelle
Only UK fans would try to make Adolph Rupp sound like he's not racist. Then Belle answer me this, where were the black players at UK in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s? Where were they? Adolph Rupp had the chance to recruit them and openly decided not to because he wanted white players only! It wasn't until the 66 NCAA Title Game against Texas Western that Rupp's stance changed because he knew the days of winning it all with only white players was over.
This post was edited on 12/29/13 at 11:11 pm
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