On the day of Kentucky’s 1948 season football opener with Xavier, a member of Adolph Rupp’s basketball squad found himself denied entry to Stoll Field.
It seems when pictures were taken for UK student IDs, Joe Hall had blown it off and instead gone home to Cynthiana to watch a high school football game.
Now, the UK sophomore was paying the piper.
“I didn’t have a student ID, and they wouldn’t let me in the football game without it,” Hall recalled Monday. “I kept saying, ‘But I’m on the basketball team.’ And they didn’t care.