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Ruric Roark was born Ruric Creegan Roark on March 13, 1887, in Glasgow, Kentucky, to Ruric Nevel Roark and Mary C. Creegan. Roark graduated from Dudley high school in Lexington in 1902. He then attended Kentucky briefly before graduating from the University of Cincinnati with a B.A. degree in 1907. He earned his master’s degree…
Legal Name: Harold Lindsay Amoss Date of Death: November 2, 1956 Member of Kentucky’s first basketball team. Member of Pi Kappa Alpha social fraternity, Phi Chi, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. Dr. Harold L. Amoss obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Kentucky in 1905 and an M.S. degree from UK in…
Joseph Hermann was born Joseph George Hermann on April 13, 1886, in Newport, Kentucky, to Joseph Strobel Hermann and Caroline (Carrie) Blesch Hermann. He was the seventh born of nine children. Hermann enrolled at Kentucky in 1903 and graduated with a bachelor of civil engineering degree in 1907. While at Kentucky, Hermann played basketball during…
Arthur Donan was born Arthur Liston Donan on March 27, 1885, in Three Springs, Kentucky to Dr. David Crews Donan and Victoria Grady Donan. Donan attended the University of Kentucky where he played both baseball and basketball. He also managed the football team in 1906-07. He was a member of Tau Beta Pi and the…
Thomson Bryant was born Thomson Ripley Bryant on January 8, 1885, in Fayette County, Kentucky, to Dudley Hughes Bryant and Sarah Quaels Thomson. In the earliest, formative years of basketball at the University of Kentucky—when the sport itself was still carving out its place on campus—few figures embodied the spirit of those rugged beginnings quite…