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Bobby Lavin

Bobby Lavin

American football and basketball player (1900–1972)

Robert Edward Lavin (August 31, 1900 – November 1, 1972) was a college football and basketball player for the Kentucky Wildcats. On the football team, Lavin was a quarterback for coach Bill Juneau's Wildcats.[1] In the 55–0 loss to Centre in 1921, Lavin was his team's lone star.[2] The 1921 team scored on Vanderbilt for the first time.[3] He was a guard on the basketball team, playing with Basil Hayden.[4][5] The 1921 basketball team won a Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) championship.[6]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Kentucky Romps Over Maryville". The Kentucky Kernel. October 15, 1920. p. 6.
  2. [2]
    Camp, Walter (1922). National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Rules: Official Intercollegiate Football Guide. New York: Spalding's Athletic Library.
  3. [3]
    Russell, Fred, and Maxwell Edward Benson. Fifty Years of Vanderbilt Football. Nashville, TN, 1938
  4. [4]
    ""UK-20 GA-19 Champs 1921", Group portrait of the Kentucky Basketball Champions of South 1921 "Coach Bucheit - 'Jimmy' Wilhelm - W. L. Poynts - 'Gibby' Smith - 'Daddy' Boles - Sam Ridgeway - Paul Atkins - Basil Hayden - 'Bill' King - 'Bobby' Lavin" - Kentucky Digital Library". Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  5. [5]
    "UK Career Statistics for Bob Lavin".
  6. [6]
    Tom Wallace (January 13, 2012). The University of Kentucky Basketball Encyclopedia. p. 33. ISBN 9781613214794.
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