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Transylvania players vividly recall 1952 scrimmage

Transylvania UniversityAccording to official records, and have not competed in basketball since March 3, 1911. That 100-year gap closes when the teams play an exhibition game Wednesday in Rupp Arena.  But lost in time is a scrimmage the teams staged in 1952.  As might be expected, this competition made life-long memories for Transy’s players. “We country boys got to play in Memorial Coliseum,” Bill Ward, 80, said last week. “That was something for us.”

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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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