1967-68 Basketball at Morehead State University
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To The Press • Radio • TV Here is your copy of the 1967-68 Morehead State University Basketball Brochure. W e hope this booklet will aid you in covering Morehead basketball and will give you sufficient b;c1ck ground on our coaching staff, athletes and Uni versity. If additional information, pictures or other materials are needed, please feel free to write or call at any time. General Information LOCATION- Morehead, Ky., located on High way 60 halfway between Lexington and Ashland where the "Bluegrass Meets Appa lachia." ENROLLMENT: 6,150 FOUNDED: 1922 PRESIDENT: Dr. Adron Doran DEGREES GRANTED: A.B., B.S., M.A., M.S. ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: Bob Laughlin, Morehead '37 HEAD BASKETBALL COACH: Bob Wright, Marshall '50, 28-20 ASSIS'fANT BASKETBALL COACH: Lake Kelly, Georgia Tech '56 FRESHMAN BASKETBALL COACH: John (Sonny) Allen, Morehead '50 SPORTS PUBLICITY: M. C. Garrott COLORS : Blue and Gold NICKNAME: Eagles CONFERENCES: Ohio Valley and NCAA. FIELDHOUSE: Laughlin Fieldhouse, 5,500 1966-67 RECORD: 16-8, overall; 8-6 in OVC. OVC OFFICE: Art Guepe, Commisioner Suite 321, 3716 Hillsboro Road Nashville, Tennessee 37215 Phone: Area 615 - 291-2400 1967-68 BASKETBA'L'L al Morehead State University M. C. Garrott Sports Information Director Office Phone : AC 606 784-4181 Ext. 225 Home Phone : AC 606 784-5633 1 DR. ADRON DORAN, PRESIDENT MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY Dr. Doran is Morehearl State University's seventh President and has served Morehead since 1954c. Morehead Stale University Founded in 1922, Morehead State Univer sity is a state-supported, multi-purpose univer sity with a campus covering more than 455 acres of gently-sloping lawns. There are five Schools within the Univer sity - Applied Sciences and Technology, Edu cation, Humanities, Sciences and Mathematics and Social Sciences. The Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees are offered, while various grad uate programs lead to the Master of Arts, Mast er of Science, Master of Music, Master of Higher Education and Master of Arts in Education degrees. Additional work may be earned beyond the Master's degree. There are more than 50 major structures on the campus with a total value estimated at more than $55,000,000. A $15,000,000 expansion program is currently near the halfway point in completion. Five new buildings have been completed and put into service within the past 2 six months-. The most spectacular of these is 1ignon Tower, a 16-story cylindrical residence hall for women, which houses 300 co-eds in 75 suites. B-uilt at a cost of $1,540,000, the tower dominates a complex of four residence halls for women named in honor of Mrs. Mignon Doran, wife of the Morehead president. The others are: Alumni Tower, a 10-story r esidence hall for men, which houses 384 students. Built at a cost of $2,670,000, it also contains a cafeteria which seats 500. Nearby is a new apartment building for married students, occupied in June, 1967. It has 40 one-bedr oom units and was built at a cost of $740,000. Members of the Morehead athletic teams occupy a new 132-man dormitory visible on the hillside to the north of the stadium. The two-story, tri-level facility includes 33 complete units for four men each. Also completed late this summer was a $1,676,000 building to house the health and physical education program. It features an activities room of more than 20,000 square feet of floor space, or more than two and one-half times the playing surface of the basketball court in the ,adjoining Laughlin Fieldhouse. With completion of these five major build ing·s, another $7,000,000 in construction is in progr ess on the Morehead campus and final plans have been drawn for a like amount. Construction is underway on a $3,005,000 Professional Education Graduate Studies Build ing, a $2,040,000 addition to Lappin Science Hall, a $1,096,000 Art Building, and a $1,289,000 addition to Baird Music Hall. All will be com pleted in 1968. lYJ or e than 6,150 students currently attend the University and ther e are about 8,000 alumni. The faculty numbers more than 300 and 40 states and 23 foreign countries are represented among the student body. The University offers credit courses in the evening, and on Saturdays, provides for off campus and television instruction and has an active extension division. Morehead State University is a member of the Ohio Valley Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The University plays an intercollegiate schedule in football, basketball, baseball, track, golf, tennis, cross country, swimming, wrestling and soccer. 3 Press • Radio • TV MOREHEAD The Morehead N ews .............. W. E. Crutcher The Trail Blazer (,School P ap er ) ..... Sports Editor WMOR . Marshall Sidebottom WMKY (School Radio) .. ...... Larry Netherton LEXINGTON Lexington H erald (A.M.) . Rick Bailey L exington L eader (P.M.) ......... .... .. Bill Pugh WLEX, WLEX-TV . Cy Follmer WVLK .......... ....... ......... E arl Broad man WBLG . .. ... ........ ... .. ... .. Eel Van Hook WKYT-TV . Bill Sorrell ASHLAND Daily Inclependent ................. Malcolm Conley WCMI .. ....... ... ... ........... Johnny Dollar WTCR . ,Sports Director MAYSVILLE Daily Independent .. .. ... ... ..... Laurnie Ca,proni Maysville Public L edger ............ W. B. Matthews WFTM . Roy Redmond LOUISVILLE The Courier-Journal (A.M.) . ... .... .. Billy Reed, D avid Adams The Louisville Times (P.M.) . .. ....... D ean Eagle WHAS, WHAS-TV .. Cawood L edford, Walt Adams WA VE, WA VE-TV . Ed Kallay MT. STERLING WMST ... .. .... .. .. ... ..... Bob Spradlin GRAYSON WGOH ........... ....... .. ..... Ken Jack son PAINTSVILLE WSIP ... .. .. .......... ............... Jim Fyffe VANCEBURG WKKS . ... .. ... ... .. ...... .... Ralph Da.vis CYNTHIANA Cynthiana D emocrat . Tommy Preston WCYN . Lawrence McGill HUNTINGTON, W . VA. The H erald-Dispatch ......... .. .... George Rorrer The Adviser .. ..... ... ... ... Ernie Salvatore WSAZ, WSAZ-'rV ...... ...... ... ...... Bob Bowen WHTN, WHTN-TV . .. .... .. ... .. .. Bob Smith WIRE SERVICES: Assoc. P1· ess, H erald-Leader Bldg., L exington, Ky. United Press Intem ational, 635 S. 5th, Louisville 2, Kentucky. 4 The Coaches and Team Personnel 5 Bob Wright - Head Coach Bob Wright is beginning his third season at the helm of the Morehead State University basketball program and has earned the reputa tion as "one of the finest coaches in the Ohio Valley Confer ence" after only two years in OVC. His 1965 squad, a pre-season pick to finish near the cellar, posted a 12-12 season ledg·er and a 8-6 con ference r ecord, good for a third place tie. Wright received nu merous votes as coach of the year and ranked second in the balloting. As a second-year coach, the popular Wri~·ht led the E agles to a three-way tie (with East Tennessee and Murray) for second place in the OVC last year with a 8-6 conference r ecord. Over-all he had his finest year to date, 16-8. His over-all record to date at Morehead is 28-20. Wright and his dedicated staff stress the importance of team play, hustle, desire, and a winning system. Wright is a strong fundamentalist in his basketball t eaching, and has used the theory that good ftmdamentals and good conditioning equal winning basketball teams. Prior to stepping into collegiate coaching at Morehead, Wright coached in the high school ranks for 13 years and compiled a record of 329 wins against 72 losses. He spent his last six years on the high school level at Ashland's Paul Blazer High School and led the Tomcats to 168 wins and only 29 defeats. While at Ashland, he was named Kentucky "Coach of the Year" with his t eam winning the state championship in 1961. Wright is a 1950 graduate of Marshall Uni versity and received the AB degree with a ma jor in physical education and a minor in biologi cal sciences. He attended Morehead from 1957 to 1961 and earned the MA degree in education. 6 During his colleg·iate days, he was basket ball captain his senior year and voted the out standing athlete at Marshall. H e led Marshall in scoring his junior and senior years with 18.3 and 19.5 averages, scoring 373 and 369 points in the respective years, and played on an N. A. I. B. championship team in 1947-48. The Pike County native is a 1944 graduate of Elkhorn City High School and led his team to the state tournament in hi. junior and senior years. "\Vright is married to the former I-lf•lr n Louise Anderson, a classmate at Marshall. The Wrights have two children, a daughter, Sara bert (12) and a son Bob Gordon, Jr. (5) . A nephe,v, Charles H enry ,,Tilson II, also lives with the family. Lake Kelly - Assistant 'Coach Lake Kelly fills the vital a ·sistant coach position on Wright's staff. Wright persuaded Kelly to r turn to Morehead State University in 1965 after a long association with Eagle ba ketball. H e has e; oached and played on the high school, army and college level and has gained a reputation as "one of t he com plete students of the game". Kelly brgan his coaching ·ar eer at Uni versity Breckinridge School while co mpl eting additional work for a major in physical rduca tion. After fulfilling the r rquirements, hr took over the basketball r eins at Amelia, Ohio, ancl led his team to a 13-5 r ecord. The inactive captain in the army reserve was called to active duty during the Berlin crisis and assigned to Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. Following his army hitch, Kelly r eturned to Morehead to work on his MA. degree and was the E agles' fresman coach. H e held similar duties at Florida State in 1963 and was named assistant coach at Loyola University in 1964.