Saturday, April 4, 2015

Rest In Peace, Coach Fox (1930-2015)

The "HOME OF THE 1967 KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS" is mourning the passing in Wauchula, Fla, of Dr. Robert B. Fox, "often referred to as the Rick Pitino of the late 60's," coach of what Adolph Rupp called "the best high school press I've ever seen" and "a whirling dynamo on the bench."


"If you don’t believe it, watch the next time you see a Jacket game," Elmer Kelly once opined on WFMW AM 730 in Madisonville. "There’s not a boy on the floor who works harder. He is up and down, in and out, over and under every movement on the boards, and must be ready for a strait jacket when the final whistle is blown. Whatever it is that courses through Fox’s veins should be extracted and bottled. The vitamin industry would have its toughest competitor."




Rest in peace, Coach Fox, an Earlington native who in 1967 got the Yellowjackets a championship, got a car and got out. He will not be soon forgotten in his hometown.


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    1. The last two minutes of this game are as exciting as any sports event you will ever hear. One of the best state finals ever played. An outstanding broadcast. What a game. What a Commonwealth.

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  2. Elmer Kelly's elocution is elegant!

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    1. My attention for detail, however, is deplorable. It's Kelley, with a second e.

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    2. He was outstanding. That was better than 90 percent of the college basketball broadcasts you hear today.

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  3. That's an amazing game and broadcast.

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  4. Coach Fox: "It looked dark. It looked dismal. But I never did give up the faith." That's so excellent.

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  5. "These are good boys. They're good, clean-living kids."

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