| Position | Forward |
|---|---|
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1. The three basketball positions normally employed by organized Basketball teams are guard forward and center A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit Inches redirects here To see the Les Savy Fav album see Inches. 93 m) |
| Weight | 210 lb (95 kg) |
| Born | December 9, 1931 Owensboro, Kentucky |
| Nationality | USA |
| College | Kentucky |
| Draft | 1953 - 3rd round (13th pick) by the Boston Celtics |
| Pro career | 1956–1966 |
| Former teams | St. Louis Hawks (1956-1966) |
| Hall of Fame | 1978 |
Clifford Oldham Hagan (born December 9, 1931, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American former professional basketball player. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International The pound or pound-mass (abbreviation lb, lbm, or sometimes in the United States #) is a unit of Mass Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city 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 the US state of Kentucky and the County seat of Daviess County. The Commonwealth of Kentucky ( is a state located in the East Central United States of America. The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public, Co-educational, University, and is also the state's land-grant university located The 1953 NBA Draft was notable for producing three Hall-of-Famers The Boston Celtics are an American professional Basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, playing in the Atlantic Division of the 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 an American professional Basketball team based in Atlanta Georgia. Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city 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 the US state of Kentucky and the County seat of Daviess County. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m 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. A hook shot, in Basketball, is a play in which the offensive player usually turned perpendicular to the basket gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional Basketball team based in Atlanta Georgia. 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). 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. The American Basketball Association ( ABA) was a professional Basketball league founded in 1967, and eventually merged in part with the National
University of Kentucky
Hagan played college basketball at the University of Kentucky under legendary coach Adolph Rupp. The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public, Co-educational, University, and is also the state's land-grant university located Adolph Frederick Rupp ( September 2, 1901 &ndash December 10, 1977) was one of the most successful coaches As a sophomore in 1951 he helped Kentucky win the NCAA Championship with a 68-58 victory over Kansas State. Athletics Marathon International Races March 6 &mdash Pan American Games Marathon, Buenos Aires The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single elimination Tournament held each spring featuring 65 College basketball teams in the Kansas State University, 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. Point shaving, in organized Sports is a type of Match fixing where the perpetrators try to prevent a team from covering a published point spread. The suspension of the season made Kentucky's basketball team, in effect, the first college sports team to get the "death penalty. The death penalty refers to the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's (NCAA power to force United States academic institutions not to compete in certain sports " 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. Frank Vernon Ramsey Jr (born July 13, 1931 in Corydon Kentucky) is a former professional Basketball player and coach Louis "Lou" C Tsioropoulos (born August 31 1930 in Lynn Massachusetts) is a retired American professional Basketball player
Hagan, Ramsey and Tsioropoulos all graduated from Kentucky in 1953 and, as a result, became eligible for the NBA Draft. The NBA Draft is an annual North American event in which the National Basketball Association 's (NBA thirty teams (29 in the United States and one in All three players were selected by the Boston Celtics—Ramsey in the first round, Hagan in the third, and Tsioropoulos in the seventh. The Boston Celtics are an American professional Basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, playing in the Atlantic Division of the 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. Temple University is a state-related public research University in Philadelphia. Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Athletics Marathon September 12 &mdash Enschede Marathon, Netherlands Men's Winner Daniel (Dan Paul Issel (born October 25 1948 in Batavia Illinois) is a retired American professional Basketball player and coach 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. The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio The 1954 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 24 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA 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.
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. hmm 1952ά Auto Racing NASCAR Championship - Tim Flock AAA Racing: Troy Artistic Gymnastics 1954 World Championships Men's all-around champion Viktor Chukarin, USSR Women's The Southeastern Conference (SEC is a College Athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which operates in the southeastern His uniform number 6 is retired by the University of Kentucky.
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. Andrews Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. After his military service, Hagan and Ed Macauley were traded to the St. Charles Edward "Ed" Macauley (born March 22 1928 in St Louis Hawks for the draft rights to Bill Russell. William Felton "Bill" Russell (born February 12 1934 in Monroe, Louisiana) is a retired American professional Basketball 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. Artistic gymnastics World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Men's all-around champion Boris Shakhlin, USSR Robert E Lee "Bob" Pettit (born December 12 1932 in Baton Rouge Louisiana, U The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association and the conclusion of the sport's postseason each June 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). The National Basketball Association staged its first All-Star Game in the Boston Garden on March 2, 1951. In his 10 NBA seasons, Hagan played 745 games and scored 13,447 points for an 18. 0 average.
In 1967, the Dallas Chaparrals of the newly-formed ABA hired Hagan as a player-coach. Athletics Marathon August 5 &mdash Pan American Games Marathon, Winnipeg Canada Men's A player-coach, in Sports, is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both Playing and coaching duties 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. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, located in downtown Springfield Massachusetts, honors players who have shown exceptional skill at Basketball Artistic Gymnastics World Artistic Gymnastics Championships: Men's all-around champion Nikolai Andrianov, USSR
Hagan was mentioned in the ESPN documentary, Black Magic, which told the story of African-Americans and basketball. ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to Black magic or dark magic is a form of sorcery that draws on malevolent powers In a segment about Cleo Hill, it was revealed that Hagan and St. Cleo Hill (born May 24, 1938 in Newark New Jersey) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the St Louis Hawks teammate Bob Pettit approached management and complained that Hill was taking too many shots. Robert E Lee "Bob" Pettit (born December 12 1932 in Baton Rouge Louisiana, U However, this was allegedly just a cover-up for their desire to not play with an African-American teammate. Management granted their wish, telling the Hawks' coach to severely diminish Hill's offensive role. The coach, Paul Seymour, refused and he was fired. Paul Norman Seymour (born January 30 1928 in Toledo Ohio &ndash died May 5, 1998) was an American Basketball player and Hill was later blackballed by the other NBA owners as a result.
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. Athletics For an extensive coverage see 1972 in athletics (track and field Marathon September Athletic director (commonly "athletics director" is a position at many American Colleges and universities, as well as in larger High schools He resigned in November 1988 in the midst of a recruiting scandal that would also claim the job of head basketball coach Eddie Sutton. Athletics For an extensive coverage see 1988 in athletics (track and field Marathon International Eddie Sutton (born March 12, 1936 in Bucklin Kansas. Sutton is the former college head coach with 36-year of Division I coaching experience with stints Hagan would be replaced by one-time Kentucky teammate C. M. Newton, the head basketball coach at Vanderbilt University the year before. Charles Martin (C M Newton (born February 2 1930 in Rockwood Tennessee) 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). Athletics For an extensive coverage see 1993 in athletics (track and field Marathon Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each Cliff Hagan Stadium, or more fully Shively Field at Cliff Hagan Stadium, is a Baseball Stadium in Lexington Kentucky. It had previously been known as the Bernie A. Shively Sports Center. Bernie A Shively ( May 26, 1902 in Paris Illinois – December 12, 1967 in Lexington Kentucky) was the Athletic
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