American basketball player and coach (born 1901)

Adolph Rupp

Adolph Frederick Rupp was an American college basketball coach. Nicknamed the "Baron of the Bluegrass", he coached the University of Kentucky Wildcats to four NCAA championships, one NIT championship, 27 Southeastern Conference championships, and 13 SEC tournament championships. In his 41 years of coaching at Kentucky, he won 876 games, retiring with the most total victories by a men's NCAA Division I college coach at the time; he has since been surpassed by six coaches and ranks seventh. 822) and third in NCAA championships.

Born

1901

September 2

Died

1977

Era

1900s

Country

—

About

Adolph, in brief

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Life timeline

Key dates

1901 Born
1977 Died

Also on September 2

What else happened on this day, through history

-44 Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
-44 Cicero launches the first of his Philippicae (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
-31 Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium: Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
1192 The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade.

See all of September 2 →

The world in 1901

When Adolph arrived

april 25 New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
august 10 The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
august 14 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
august 21 Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.

Read the year 1901 →

Same-day contemporaries

Also born on September 2

Andreas Embirikos 1901–1975 Greek poet and photographer (born 1901) Austin Abrams 1996– American actor Bill Shankly 1913–1981 Scottish footballer and manager (died 1981) Billy Preston 1946–2006 American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1946) Cleveland Amory 1917–1998 American author and activist (born 1917) Frederick Soddy 1877–1956 English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956) Israel Gelfand 1913– Russian-American mathematician and biologist (died 2009) John Zorn 1953– American saxophonist, composer, and producer Joseph Roth 1894–1939 Austrian-French journalist and author (born 1894)

See everything on September 2 →

Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1901

Walt Disney 1901–1966 American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (born 1901) André Malraux 1901–1976 French theorist and author (born 1901) Andreas Embirikos 1901–1975 Greek poet and photographer (born 1901) Art Rooney 1901–1988 American businessman, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers (born 1901) Charles Brenton Huggins 1901–1997 Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901) Claude Autant-Lara 1901–2000 French director, screenwriter, and politician (died 2000) Ed Begley 1901–1970 American actor (born 1901) Eiji Tsuburaya 1901–1970 Japanese director and producer (born 1901) Enrico Fermi 1901–1954 Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)

Read about the year 1901 →

Keep going

More to explore

Adolph's birthday September 2 Adolph's zodiac Virgo When Adolph arrived 1901