- Thursday, February 5 1925 -
Kentucky
-
15
(Head
Coach:
Clarence
Applegran)
-
[Final
Rank
]
| Player | Pts |
|---|---|
| Lovell Underwood | 1 |
| James McFarland | 5 |
| Will Milward | 1 |
| Burgess Carey | 3 |
| Charles Albert | 0 |
| Charles Hughes | 0 |
| C. Foster Helm | 5 |
| Henry Besuden | 0 |
| Hubert White | 0 |
| Totals | 15 |
Alabama - 24 (Head Coach: Hank Crisp)
| Player | Pts |
|---|---|
| Vernon Stabler | 7 |
| Andy Cohen | 3 |
| Clyde Propst | 6 |
| Ben Hudson | 0 |
| Graham McClintock | 1 |
| Leonard Carter | 2 |
| Robert Young | 1 |
| Grant Gillis | 4 |
| Totals | 24 |
| Prior Game | | | Next Game |
| West Virginia 29 - 19 | | | Georgia Tech 18 - 16 |
Alabama Stops Kentucky Clan
Small Playing Floor and Condition of Team Cause Defeat
A Kentucky clan, victorious over West Virginia and Washington & Lee, was stopped by the Crimson of Alabama last Thursday night. The final score was 24 to 15. Alabama jumped into the lead at the start of the game and was leading 14 to 4 when the half ended. Kentucky's man-to-man defense failed to stop the Crimsons and their offense did not function in the early stages of the game. Substitutions were many for Kentucky, but the Crimsons played almost throughout the entire struggle without sending in a sub. Then Carter, Gillis and Young went in, but the play was not slowed perceptibly.
Hudson's guarding was the big feature of the game for Alabama. He uncorked one of the best games of his cage career. McFarland and Helm probably turned in the best exhibitions for Kentucky, both of them being big cogs in the pass work as well as scoring most of the points for the Wildcats.
The Kentuckians attempted many long shots at the hoops, but few sank through the netting, while Alabama's work under her own basket gave her the victory.
Kentucky could not cope with the heavy Crimsons and therein lies the tale. Another easy manner of explaining the 'Bama victory lies in the fact that the Alabamans outjumped the Kentuckians and were just a bit better with their five-man defense; their dribbling and passing were better than that of the 'cats.
Three Kentucky players, McFarland, Helm and Carey, were injured in the game and this and the smallness of Alabama's playing floor were great factors in their defeat.
Game Writeup - Lexington Leader
'BAMA DEFEATS WILDCATS, 24-15
Failure to Count Goals from Fouls Costs Kentucky Game; Three Locals Reported Hurt
TUSCALOOSA, ALA., Feb. 6 - Alabama defeated Kentucky at basket ball here Thursday night, the big Crimson team putting it over the smaller players by a score of 24 to 15 in a very rough contest.
Good shooting of free throws would have given the game to Kentucky, for the Wildcats had 20 tries at the basket and counted only three of them. They made six field goals to the locals' seven.
Captain McFarland, Helm and Carey, of the Kentucky team, were removed from the game with injuries.
The small floor and black glass back board put the visitors at a disadvantage.
Tonight the Wildcats play Georgia Tech at Atlanta, Saturday night they oppose Georgia at Athens. Monday night they finish the southern trip by meeting Tennessee at Knoxville.
Game Writeup - [by Russell Smith] The Birmingham (AL) News
CRIMSONS WIN FROM KENTUCKY IN ROUGH GAME
Alabama Cagers Will Play Vanderbilt at Capstone Saturday Night
University, Ala., Feb. 6 - Alabama triumphed rather easily over the Kentucky State Wildcats here Thursday night by a 24 to 15 score. The game was very rough and consequently slow, each team playing a very strong defensive game, but being off in all the offensive phases.
From the first whistle the contestants were crashing together in a free-for-all for the sphere. Alabama took a slight lead the first four minutes. By dint of a bang up defensive, with occasional breaks down the floor for points, the locals held it at the half, when the count was 11 to 4. Kentucky went through the first 11 minutes of play in this period without registering a point.
At this point the visitors hung a foul shot. Two more minutes passed before Kentucky had scored from the field. During all this space the invaders were unable to get even an open shot from any respectful distance. They weren't missing the shots - they just didn't get 'em.
Kentucky was never within dangerous distance of the tide during the rest of the game. They fought like their feline namesakes to the very end, and used every man on the squad at least twice in an effort to stave off the defeat that looked inevitable almost from the start.
They were, with the exception of Carey, the big back guard, very slight in build, looking more like high school than college players; but they put up a magnificent defensive battle every step of the journey.
And Carey was the guiding light of this play. His figure loomed in nearly every scrimmage. He was strong in every department of the game. At taking the ball off the back board, covering his man, and he even came down the floor on two occasions to loop pretty field tries.
He was supported well by McFarland's floor work and Helm's all around play, but overshadowing even his play was that of Ben Hudson. Hudson did not stand out so much as his rival because he was playing on a more evenly balanced aggregation. The others were all on a par, playing good defensive ball and poor offensive, the latter because of the roughness of the going, to a certain extent.
Vanderbilt comes here Saturday for a single struggle, while the local freshmen will make it a double affair when they meeting Butler county high, of Greenville.
