League: NCAA

NCAA

Bill Davis

Obituary – Bill Davis, merchant and athletes, dies, Henderson Gleaner William Owen “Bill” Davis, 70, husband of Opal Going Davis of Hazard, Ky. passed away Wednesday Feb. 25, 1981 following a heart attack. He was a retired merchant having been in business with his brother, Roscoe, who passed away Aug. 21, 1980 in the Davis Brother’s Hardware Store…

Herbert Jerome

Herbert Jerome was born Herbert Elliott Jerome on September 26, 1910, to Daisy and Calvin Jerome.  Jerome graduated from Tulsa Central High School in 1929 and attended the college of engineering at the University of Kentucky.  He earned the nickname “Slip” because of his speed as a starting forward on the freshman squad at Kentucky. …

Ellis Johnson

One of Kentucky’s truly great all-around athletes, lettering three years in basketball and football while also participating in baseball and track. Johnson was playing freshman baseball at UK in the spring of 1930 when he was named a member of the athletics council, which was interviewing applicants for the head basketball coaching job vacated by…

Cecil Bell

Obituary – Bell, Lexington Herald-Leader (December 1, 2004) Bell, Cecil D., son of Mary Varner and John H. Bell was born May 25, 1910 in Bourbon County. He graduated from Millersburg Military Institute in 1928. While a student at MMI he was Captain of his ROTC Company and Captain of the basketball team, which won…

Darrell Darby

Darrell Darby was born Darrell Lawrence Darby in Ashland, Kentucky, on May 4, 1910, to Lawrence and Bertha Lewis Darby.  Darby was a member of the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team during the early 1930s, a formative period in the program’s rise to national prominence under head coach Adolph Rupp. He played for the Wildcats…