Clifford Oldham Hagan (born December 9, 1931, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6-4 forward who excelled with the hook shot, Hagan played his entire 10-year NBA career (1956-1966) with the St. Louis Hawks. He was also a player-coach for the Dallas Chaparrals in the first two-plus years of the American Basketball Association's existence (1967-1970). In the context of basketball, forward usually refers to one of two positions: Power forward Small forward In addition, some basketball players share the attributes of a small forward and a point guard, and are accordingly called point forwards. ... is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Owensboro is the third largest city in Kentucky and the county seat of Daviess County. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  Ranked 37th  - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ... The University of Kentucky, also referred to as UK, is a public, co-educational university located in Lexington, Kentucky. ... The 1953 NBA Draft was notable for producing three hall-of-famers. ... The Boston Celtics are a professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The 1956-57 NBA season was the 11th season of the National Basketball Association. ... The 1965-66 NBA Season was the 20th season of the National Basketball Association. ... The Atlanta Hawks are a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Atlanta, Georgia. ... is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Owensboro is the third largest city in Kentucky and the county seat of Daviess County. ... This article is about the sport. ... Kent Benson attempting a hook shot for the Indiana Hoosiers, 1977 Richard Mason Rocca making a hook shot for Eldo Napoli, 2006 For the cricket maneuver, see Batting (cricket). ... The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. ... A player-coach, in sports, is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. ... The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. ... For the league that began in 1999, see American Basketball Association (2000-). The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a professional basketball league founded in 1967, and eventually merged, in part, with the National Basketball Association (NBA). ...

University of Kentucky

Hagan played college basketball at the University of Kentucky under legendary coach Adolph Rupp. As a sophomore in 1951 he helped Kentucky win the NCAA Championship with a 68-58 victory over Kansas State. The University of Kentucky, also referred to as UK, is a public, co-educational university located in Lexington, Kentucky. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... See also: 1950 in sports, other events of 1951, 1952 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing NASCAR Championship - Herb Thomas AAA Racing: Tony Bettenhausen won the series championship Lee Wallard won the Indianapolis 500 Formula One Championship - Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina 24 hours of... The NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship is held each spring featuring 65 of the top college basketball teams in the United States. ... Kansas State University, officially called Kansas State University of Fashion and Design [2] but commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States. ...

In the fall of 1952, a point shaving scandal involving three Kentucky players (one of whom was a teammate of Hagan on Kentucky’s 1951 NCAA champions) over a four-year period forced Kentucky to forfeit its upcoming season. The suspension of the season made Kentucky's basketball team, in effect, the first college sports team to get the "death penalty." Had the NCAA allowed Kentucky to play, the Wildcats, led by Hagan, Frank Ramsey and Lou Tsioropoulos, would likely have won their fourth NCAA title in six seasons. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The death penalty refers to the National Collegiate Athletic Associations (NCAA) power to force United States academic institutions not to compete in certain sports. ... Frank Vernon Ramsey, Jr. ... Louis Lou C. Tsioropoulos (born August 31, 1930 in Lynn, Massachusetts) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the NBAs Boston Celtics for three seasons from 1956-1959. ...

Hagan, Ramsey and Tsioropoulos all graduated from Kentucky in 1953 and, as a result, became eligible for the NBA Draft. All three players were selected by the Boston Celtics—Ramsey in the first round, Hagan in the third, and Tsioropoulos in the seventh. All three also returned to play at Kentucky despite graduating. In Kentucky’s opening game that season, an 86-59 victory over Temple on December 5, 1953, Hagan scored a school single-game record 51 points; Dan Issel would break this record by scoring 53 points in one game during the 1969-70 season. After finishing the regular season (one in which Hagan averaged 24.0 points per game) with a perfect 25-0 record and a #1 ranking in the Associated Press, Kentucky had been offered a bid into the NCAA Tournament. However, then-existing NCAA rules prohibited graduate students from participating in post-season play; the Wildcats declined the bid because their participation would have forced them to play without Hagan, Ramsey and Tsioropoulos, thus jeopardizing their perfect season. The NBA Draft is an annual North American event in which the National Basketball Associations (NBA) thirty teams (29 in the United States and one in Canada) can select players who wish to join the league. ... The Boston Celtics are a professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. ... For the private Christian university in Tennessee, see Tennessee Temple University. ... is the 339th day of the year (340th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1952 in sports, other events of 1953, 1954 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing NASCAR Championship - Herb Thomas AAA Racing: Bill Vukovich won the Indianapolis 500 Sam Hanks won the season driving championship Formula One Championship - Alberto Ascari of Italy 24 hours of... Daniel Paul Issel ( October 25, 1948 in Batavia, Illinois) is a star basketball player. ... The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ... The 1954 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 24 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ...

Upon graduation from Kentucky, Hagan had scored 1475 points, which ranked him third in school history, and grabbed 1035 rebounds, which placed him second, three fewer than Ramsey. In 1952 and 1954 he was named both All-American and First Team All-Southeastern Conference. His uniform number 6 is retired by the University of Kentucky. See also: 1951 in sports, 1953 in sports and the list of years in sports. Auto Racing NASCAR Championship - Tim Flock AAA Racing: Troy Ruttman won the Indianapolis 500 Chuck Stevenson won the season championship Formula One Championship - Italy 24 hours of Le Mans: Hermann Lang / Fritz Reiss won, driving... See also: 1953 in sports, other events of 1954, 1955 in sports and the list of years in sports. // 1954 World Championships Mens all-around champion: Viktor Chukarin, USSR Womens all-around champion: Galina Rudko, USSR Team competition champions: mens - USSR; womens - USSR NASCAR Championship... The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a college athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which operates in the southeastern part of the United States. ...

Pro basketball

Upon graduation, Hagan, like Ramsey before him, was drafted by the Celtics. Unlike Ramsey, however, Hagan served in the military for two years after being drafted (Ramsey had served in the military for one year after his rookie season). In both of his years in the military (1954 and 1955), Hagan, stationed at Andrews Air Force Base, won Worldwide Air Force basketball championships. After his military service, Hagan and Ed Macauley were traded to the St. Louis Hawks for the draft rights to Bill Russell. In 1958, his second season in the NBA, the Hawks, led by Hagan and Bob Pettit, won the NBA championship (one of the five Western Conference titles the Hawks won during his tenure with them), defeating, , the Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals. Hagan was named to play in five consecutive NBA All-Star Games from 1958 to 1962 (an injury forced him to miss the 1958 classic). In his 10 NBA seasons, Hagan played 745 games and scored 13,447 points for an 18.0 average. Emblem of the AFDW Andrews Air Force Base (ICAO code KADW) is a United States Air Force base near Washington, DC and the home base of the U.S. presidential aircraft, Air Force One. ... Ed Macualey (born March 22, 1928 in Saint Louis, Missouri), is a former professional basketball player. ... William Fenton Russell (born February 12, 1934) is a former American basketball player remembered for his central role in the Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in the 13 seasons that he played. ... See also: 1957 in sports, other events of 1958, 1959 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing NASCAR Championship - Lee Petty Indianapolis 500 - Jimmy Bryan USAC Racing - Tony Bettenhausen won the season championship Formula One Championship - Mike Hawthorn of Great Britain February 23 - Cuban rebels kidnap... Bob Pettit (with the ball) as a player of the St. ... Logo of the NBA Finals. ... The National Basketball Association staged its first All-Star Game in the Boston Garden on March 2, 1951. ...

In 1967, the Dallas Chaparrals of the newly-formed ABA hired Hagan as a player-coach. He scored 40 points in his team’s very first game. He also played in the very first ABA All-Star Game that season, becoming the first player to play in All-Star Games in both the NBA and ABA. He retired as a player after playing three games during the 1969-1970 season and remained as Chaparral coach until midway into the season. Hagan played in 94 ABA games and scored 1423 points for a 15.1 average. Hagan was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978, the first ex-University of Kentucky player to be so honored! See also: 1966 in sports, other events of 1967, 1968 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Mario Andretti wins the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship — Richard Petty May 31-Indianapolis 500 — A.J. Foyt USAC Racing — A.J. Foyt won the season championship... A player-coach, in sports, is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. ... Basketball Hall of Fame Logo The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame honors players who have shown exceptional skill at basketball, all-time great coaches and referees, and other major contributors to the game. ... See also: 1977 in sports, other events of 1978, 1979 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto racing USAC - A J Foyt won final season championship under USAC. CART, Championship Auto Racing Teams open wheel racing established in the United States. ...

Return to Kentucky

In 1972, Hagan returned to the University of Kentucky as the school’s assistant athletic director and took over the top job in 1975. He resigned in November 1988 in the midst of a recruiting scandal that would also claim the job of head basketball coach Eddie Sutton. Hagan would be replaced by one-time Kentucky teammate C. M. Newton, the head basketball coach at Vanderbilt University the year before. See also: 1971 in sports, other events of 1972, 1973 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: February 20: A.J. Foyt won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Richard Petty Indianapolis 500 - Mark Donohue USAC Racing - Joe Leonard won the season championship Formula... blah blah Modern athletic directors are often in a coaching misconduct being proven, often the athletic director will be terminated along with the offending coach. ... See also: 1987 in sports, other events of 1988, 1989 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Bobby Allison won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Bill Elliott CART Racing - Danny Sullivan won the season championship Indianapolis 500 - Rick Mears Formula One Championship - Ayrton... Eddie Sutton (born March 12, 1936 in Bucklin, Kansas) was the head coach of several NCAA Division I mens basketball programs, most recently at Oklahoma State University. ... Charles Martin (C. M.) Newton (born February 2, 1930 in Rockwood, Tennessee[1]) is a retired American basketball player, coach, and administrator. ... Vanderbilt University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

In 1993, the University of Kentucky renamed its baseball field in honor of Hagan (see Cliff Hagan Stadium). It had previously been known as the Bernie A. Shively Sports Center. See also: 1992 in sports, other events of 1993, 1994 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Athletics February 11 - Irina Privalova sets a new womens 60m indoors world record August 13 - August 22 - World Championships held in Stuttgart Auto Racing Stock car racing: Dale Jarrett won... This article is about the sport. ... Cliff Hagan Stadium is a baseball stadium in Lexington, Kentucky. ... Bernie A. Shively (Born May 26, 1902 in Paris, Illinois - Died December 12, 1967 in Lexington, Kentucky) was the athletic director at the University of Kentucky from 1938 until his death. ...