# 6
Hometown: Somerset, KY (Lexington University High)
Position: F Playing Height: 6-2 Playing Weight: 177
Date of Birth: May 29, 1918
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Game by Game Statistics
Kentucky Career Notes:
Multi-Sport Player [Golf]
Post-UK Career Notes:
Served in the Military
| Season | Games Played | FG | FT | F | Total Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-41 | 21 | 25 | 17 | 33 | 67 |
| 1941-42 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 26 |
| Total | 39 | 31 | 31 | 51 | 93 |
Lloyd Brinkley Ramsey was born in the small town of Somerset, Kentucky, on May 29, 1918. He was an outstanding athlete and quarterback on the championship high school football team and received a football scholarship to the University of Kentucky. After completing the four-year ROTC program with honors, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the regular army on July 1, 1940.
During his varied military career in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, he had the privilege of meeting and working with many world leaders, including Winston Churchill and several Presidents of the United States.
As a combat veteran in World War II, spanning a period from a defeat at Kasserine Pass in Africa to final victory at Hitler's Berchtesgaden, Major General Ramsey's story is told in the simple language of a hero who has minimized his own merits out of modesty. As Aide-de-Camp to British Field Marshal Harold Alexander and then as a front line battlefield commander, his memoirs are filled with vivid first hand accounts and descriptions.
From June 1969 to March 1970 he was Commanding General of the Americal Division of Vietnam. Two junior officers on his staff later became well known to all Americans, Major Colin Powell and Lt. Col. Norman Schwarzkopf. Major General Ramsey's combat career ended when he was seriously injured in the crash of his command helicopter deep in enemy territory.
The memoir of Major General Lloyd B. Ramsey is the story of a common man who is a part of the "Greatest Generation" and who typifies servicemen and women who excelled in both war and peace.
(Note, this is from Ramsey's autobiography.)
