From “The Season Never Ends 2010 Calendar: “Happy birthday, Basil Hayden. Of the 39 Kentucky Wildcat players who have been named All-Americans, Basil Hayden was the first. Hayden captained the ’20-21 squad that won, for all intents and purposes, Kentucky’s first “national” championship. That Kentucky team Georgia 20-19 to win the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Championships. It was big – there was a parade in downtown Lexington afterward. Hayden also had a brief stint as a coach, in 1926-27. Inheriting a bare cupboard, UK finished 3-13. Their next losing season wouldn’t come for another 62 years.”
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.
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