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Donald Orme was born Donald Rufus Orme in Indianapolis, Indiana on January 5, 1920, to Charles Sanford Orme and Hazel Susan Jordan Orme. Orme played both basketball and golf at Kentucky. Orme played forward for Southport High School in Indianapolis where he was all-county. As a freshman at Kentucky, Orme, a red-headed forward who enrolled…
James King was born James Libern King on September 30, 1919, in Little Cypress, Kentucky to Alzada Iowa Massey and Soloman King. King was captain and forward on the 1938 state high school champion, Sharpe High School Green Devils. The little-known Western Kentucky quintet had played outdoors until 1937 when they managed to obtain a…
Obituary – Former UK Athlete Dies in Hospital, Lexington Herald (March 17, 1956) The body of Stanford Cluggish, former basketball player at the University of Kentucky, was taken yesterday from Kerr Bros. Funeral Home to the O’Neill Funeral Home in Corbin. Cluggish died at 4:50 p.m. Thursday at the Veterans Administration Hospital where he was admitted Wednesday. He was…
Melvin Brewer was born Melvin Charles Brewer on June 28, 1919, in New Albany, Indiana, to Calvin Brewer and Olive Myrtle Shoemaker Brewer. He was a New Albany Bulldog, University of Kentucky Wildcat and part of the Greatest Generation as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II. Brewer excelled at track,…
Obituary – Lawyer a player, announcer for UK, Lexington Herald-Leader (February 26, 2007) by Art Jester SERVED BASKETBALL, FOOTBALL PROGRAMS Carl Luther “Hoot” Combs, a University of Kentucky football and basketball player who became a sportscaster in Lexington and a public address announcer for UK sports and the state high school basketball tournament, died Saturday at the Veterans Affairs…
Lee Huber was born Lee Gohmann Huber in Louisville, Kentucky on February 16, 1919, to Rose Stohr Huber and Harold Eugene Huber. Huber attended St. Xavier High School in Louisville where he starred in basketball and tennis. He was state tennis champ in 1936 and 1937 and he was All-State in basketball his senior season.…
Ermal Allen, as a student at UK in the 1930s and 1940s, played football, basketball and golf and participated in track. He was an assistant football coach at UK before joining the Dallas Cowboys in 1962 as offensive backfield coach. He retired at the end of the 1983 season after 13 years as head of research…
Waller White was born William Waller White on September 15, 1918, in Tyrone, Kentucky to Wesley Oliver White and Margaret “Maggie Mae” Waterfill White. His father worked for the Southern Railway. White had two brothers, Cecil and Thomas, and two sisters. White earned a Bachelor of Arts in Education degree at the University of Kentucky…
Obituary – PROMINENT MAYSVILLE SURGEON DENHAM DIES, Lexington Herald-Leader (August 27, 2001) by Leanna Mcguire A prominent Maysville surgeon, Dr. Harry C. Denham, co-founder of the Denham Medical Clinic in Maysville and a former University of Kentucky basketball player, died Saturday. He was 83. Dr. Denham, born June 17, 1918, was one of six children of Henry and Mary…
Obituary – Former UK men’s basketball player, 93, dies, Lexington Herald-Leader (April 16, 2012) by Karla Ward Dr. Layton “Mickey” Rouse, 93, a retired dentist who was the first University of Kentucky men’s basketball letterman to have his jersey retired, died Saturday at Twin Oaks Assisted Living in Henry County. Dr. Rouse was a 6-foot 1-inch guard for UK…