LAWRENCE
As a Kentucky assistant, Joe B. Hall accompanied head coach Adolph Rupp on a side trip when the team played at Kansas in 1971.
The coaches visited Phog Allen, in his mid-80s, at his Lawrence home, and Hall was in awe. Rupp, the Baron of the Bluegrass and Kentucky legend with four NCAA championships, visiting his old Kansas coach, Allen. Rupp, a Halstead, Kan., native, was a try-hard guard on Allen’s great teams of the early 1920s.
They’re part of the greatest team photograph in college basketball history, the 1923 Jayhawks with Rupp standing behind Allen and James Naismith, the game’s inventor and Kansas professor.