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Hometown: Hazard, KY High
Position: G Playing Height: 5-11
Date of Birth: January 17, 1911
Date of Death: February 25, 1981 [Mississippi State - 78 - 74]
Legal Name: William Owen Davis
Nickname: Bill "Racehorse" Davis (More)
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Game by Game Statistics
Kentucky Career Notes:
Multi-Sport Player [Football]
Season Notes:
1932-33: All-SEC [Second Team]; All-SEC Tournament
1933-34: All-American [Converse (3rd)]; All-SEC [First Team]; All-SEC Tournament
| Season | Games Played | Total Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1932-33 | 24 | 157 |
| 1933-34 | 17 | 142 |
| Total | 41 | 299 |
Obituary - Bill Davis, merchant and athletes, dies, Henderson Gleaner
He was a retired merchant having been in business with his brother, Roscoe, who passed away Aug. 21, 1980 in the Davis Brother's Hardware Store for the past 34 years.
The son of Sallie Davis and the late Karl Davis, he was a veteran of World War II.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church and was baptized May 29, 1960. He was an ordained deacon of the church on the missions committee since 1968, and served as superintendent of the Blue Grass Mission Sunday School for 11 years. A 1929 graduate of Hazard High, he attended the University of Kentucky where he played basketball under the late coach Adolph Rupp from 1932 to 1934, but later he left school due to the illness of his mother. He was rated among UK's greatest basketball players and was given the name of "Little Bill Davis" by all the sportswriters, because at 5'11" he was the shortest of all Rupp's players at that time. He was on the first SEC Championship team under Rupp as well as the first undefeated team under the Baron.
In 1980, he was one of the first four inductees selected by the Hazard Lion's Club to be included in the Hazard High Hall of Fame for athletes.
He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Sallie Davis, two sons, Billy Ray Davis, Louisville, Ky. and Phillip Owen Davis, Fairborn Ohio; five grandchildren, Kevin Davis, Kimberly Davis both of Louisville, Rebecca Davis, Jennifer Davis and Jeffrey Davis of Fairborn, Ohio; a sister Cynthia Prall and a niece, Beverly Rose both of Olive Hill, Ky.
Funeral Services were conducted Saturday Feb. 28, at the First Baptist Church in Hazard, Ky., by Rev. Herbert Jukes and Rev. Albert savage. Burial was in the Davis Cemetery at Christopher, Ky. The pallbearers and honorary pallbearers were all Deacons of the church.
Engle Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
