Dr. E. Cronley Elliott - photo from BigBlueHistory.net
If you enjoy reading and learning about the history of Kentucky basketball, as I do, you'll enjoy this piece. Anyone who follows Kentucky basketball via the Internet to any large extent has heard of Jon Scott, who maintains a comprehensive statistical database of the Kentucky basketball program, including biographical information of past players, coaches, articles, game details and boxscores of nearly every game Kentucky has played. He's put together a piece on the birth of Kentucky basketball: “A while back I was looking through some archives and ran across an article published on January 8, 1961 in the Louisville Courier-Journal weekly magazine entitled “Birth of the Big Blue.” This was written by the Courier-Journal's Lexington correspondent Gerald Griffin. As someone interested in UK's basketball history, the title certainly attracted my attention so I made a copy but I didn't get a chance to really look into it until recently.”
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.
