League: NCAA

Bill Trott was born William Peter Detroy Trott on March 6, 1905, in Evansville, Indiana, to Wilhelm Franklin Trott and Barbara Detroy Trott. He was one of the pioneering athletes who played basketball under the legendary coach Adolph Rupp at the University of Kentucky. Trott’s basketball career at Kentucky spanned from the late 1920s to…

Burgess Carey was born George Burgess Carey II, on March 4, 1905, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to George Burgess Carey and Katherine Jouett Reed. Carey was Kentucky’s second All-American in 1925.  He was a powerfully-built backguard, a defensive specialist, who seldom went beyond midcourt and did not shoot the ball: He was stationed permanently under the…

Len Tracy was born Leonard Graves Tracy in Winchester, Kentucky on March 3, 1905, to J. Stuart Tracy and Jessie Boswell Tracy. He was a standout athlete at Lexington Senior High School, where he played on the basketball team that won the national championship in 1922. Tracy continued his athletic career at the University of…