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John Vogt

Name
John Vogt
Hometown (Last School)
Louisville, KY
Seasons
1902-03
Birthday
April 2, 1880

John Vogt was born John Henry Leon Vogt on April 2, 1880, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Frederick Henry William Vogt and Emma Marie Johanna Wrampelmeier.

Vogt graduated from the University of Kentucky on June 3, 1903, with a bachelor’s of mechanical engineering. He was captain of the football team and a member of Kentucky’s first basketball team during his senior year. On February 18, 1903, he played against the Lexington YMCA in Kentucky’s second basketball game ever.  He also ran track and held records at Kentucky in the 880-yard run, the mile, and the mile relay.  Vogt was a member of the Kappa Sigma social fraternity.

Vogt moved to San Diego in 1911, where he was a civil engineer with the County Road Department for 22 years and then was a consulting engineer for Browne and Vogt, Engineering Surveyors, Inc. for 25 years.

His son, John Henry Leon Vogt, Jr., was killed in action in World War II when his SBD Dauntless dive bomber collided with a Japanese plane at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Vogt passed away on April 24, 1970, in Vista, California, and is buried in Oceanside, California.  He was 91 years old.

Fraternity photo with fraternity pin

Fraternity photo with fraternity pin

John was the Captain of the football team

John and his wife Eva

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.

On This Day in UK Basketball History

On June 25, 2015, continuing a record-setting recent run of draft picks, six more Wildcats are selected in the 2015 NBA Draft, tying UK’s own 2012 record mark.  Karl-Anthony Towns becomes the third UK player in program history to go No. 1, and an NBA-record-tying four Wildcats are taken in the lottery.

 

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