He said, ‘You’ll never, ever see that again.’” Reggie Warford is the second Black player Adolph Rupp signed at Kentucky. (AP) Thomas Payne hadn’t been a target of racism before college ...

Over his entire career at Kentucky, Adolph Rupp signed just a single Black player, beginning with his first season in 1930 through his retirement in 1972. Even in the segregated South, Rupp's ...

LEXINGTON – Should Adolph Rupp have been faster to integrate ... the first to break the color line in the South.” When Rupp finally signed a Black player, the experiment did not go well.