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Legal Name: Richard Hood Arnett Date of Death: January 9, 1955 Member of Kentucky’s first basketball team as a junior. College nickname was “Dick.” Member of the Patterson Literary Society. Graduated in June of 1904 with a Bachelor of Pedagogy (teaching). Married Bertha Duerfeldt in Riverside, California in May 1924. They owned and published a weekly…
Claire St. John was born Claire Porter St. John on December 24, 1882, in Brooklyn, New York to Joseph Lancaster and Jessie (Porter) St. John. He attended Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania then transferred to Kentucky where he received a degree in mechanical engineering on June 9, 1904. He played for Kentucky’s football, baseball, and basketball…
George Montgomery was born George Carter Montgomery in Adair County, Kentucky on October 11, 1881, to Nannie McFerren Epperson and Joel Quitman Montgomery. His father was a prominent minister of the Christian Church in Adair and Casey County. His family moved to Liberty, Kentucky in 1894. He left home to attend Kentucky University, which is…
Date of Death: January 25, 1944 Legal Name: Leander Elwood Andrus Member of Kentucky’s first basketball team. Member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity Son of Martin Jasper “Dock” Andrus and Leona B. Story of Farmington, KY. M. J. Andrus was Graves County, Kentucky’s largest landowner at the time of his death in 1924.
Legal Name: Edward Cronley Elliott Date of Death: December 18, 1962 There is some debate as to whether he was a member of Kentucky’s first basketball team. Records indicate he graduated from Kentucky in 1902 which would suggest that he was not a member of the first basketball team because it did not officially start until…
Legal Name: Joseph Morrison Coons Date of Death: July 26, 1909 Born in October 1880 (exact date unknown). Member of Kentucky’s first basketball team. Played football and ran track. Held the school record in the 120 yard low hurdles and the 220 yard hurdles for a number of years. Member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity…
John Vogt was born John Henry Leon Vogt on April 2, 1880, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Frederick Henry William Vogt and Emma Marie Johanna Wrampelmeier. Vogt graduated from the University of Kentucky on June 3, 1903, with a bachelor’s of mechanical engineering. He was captain of the football team and a member of Kentucky’s first…