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17 Harry Bliss

Name
Harry Bliss
Position
Forward
Class
Junior
Hometown (Last School)
Caldwell, NJ
Seasons
1934-35, 1935-36
Birthday
April 22, 1915

Obituary – BLISS, Louisville Courier-Journal (January 29, 2006)

HARRY C., 90, formerly of Wilmington, DE, passed away Friday, January 27, 2006, at Mt. Holly Nursing Center in Louisville, Ky.

He was retired from the sales department at General Electric, was a member of Penisula McCabe United Methodist Church, and was a volunteer for the American Red Cross both of which are in Wilmington, DE.

He was preceded in death by his wife, the former Emily Whiteside.

He is survived by two daughters, Lisa Bliss, (Bob) Daugherty of Louisville and Cindy Bliss (Bill Clewell) of Baltimore; two grandchildren, Meghan and Eric Carter; and two step-grandchildren, Kathryn “Kalyn” and Alexandra Daugherty.

His funeral will be 1 p.m. Tuesday, January 31, 2006, at McCrery Funderal Home, 3924 Concord Pike, Wilmington, with burial in Chester Bethel Methodist Cemetery. Visitation will be after 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home, Ratterman Funeral Home, 3711 Lexington Road, Louisville KY.

Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter’s Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.

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On This Day in UK Basketball History

On March 24, 1947, before a Madison Square Garden record crowd of 18,493, Wat Misaka held Ralph Beard to two points and Utah ended the Wildcats’ bid for back-to-back NIT Championships.

 

On March 24, 1951, No. 1 Kentucky defeated No. 5 Illinois in the 1951 NCAA Final Four.  After UK standouts Bill Spivey and Cliff Hagan fouled out, Shelby Linville, a 6-foot-5 junior, scored Kentucky’s final six points, including the game-winning basket on a layup with 12 seconds left before 16,425 in the old Madison Square Garden in New York City.

 

On March 24, 2017, in a highly anticipated matchup with UCLA, which beat the Wildcats in the regular season in Rupp Arena, freshman point guard De’Aaron Fox scores an NCAA Tournament freshman record 39 points to propel UK to the Elite Eight.

 

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