Adolph Frederick Rupp (September 2, 1901 – December 10, 1977) was an American college basketball coach. He is ranked seventh in total victories by a men's NCAA Division I college coach, winning 876 games in 41 years of coaching at the University of Kentucky. Rupp is also second among all men's college coaches in all-time winning percentage (.822), trailing only Mark Few. Rupp was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on April 13, 1969. Rupp played college basketball at Kansas under Phog Allen. More about Adolph Rupp
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Rupp was born September 2, 1901, in Halstead, Kansas, to Heinrich Rupp, a German immigrant, and Anna Lichi, a Palatinate (Quirnheim, Germany) immigrant. The fourth of six children, Rupp grew up on a 163-acre farm that his parents had homesteaded. He began playing basketball as a young child, with the help of his mother, who made a ball for him by stuffing rags into a gunnysack. "Mother sewed it up and somehow made it round," he recalled in 1977. "You couldn't dribble it. You couldn't bounce it either."In total, we tracked 62 items since 01/01/2008. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.
The most expensive item with a signature of Adolph Rupp (1955 Ashland Oil Coach Adolph Rupp AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED Very Rare Kentucky SHARP) was sold in April 2023 for $3500.00 while the cheapest item (RARE Adolph Rupp Signed Autographed Basketball Facts 1971-72 Univ of KY Book) found a new owner for $0.99 in September 2012. The month with the most items sold (3) was May 2010 with an average selling price of $125.00 for an autographed item of Adolph Rupp. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2013 with $650.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $24.99 was January 2014. In average, an autographed item from Adolph Rupp is worth $262.27.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Adolph Rupp were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
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1969 AP #1 Kentucky vs W Virginia Basketball Program Signed CHOF HC Adolph Rupp | $330.01 | ||
8 1/2 x 11 HOF CHOF HC Adolph Rupp Original Signed Photocopy Kentucky Basketball | $83.13 | ||
Adolph Rupp autograph of Rupp's Championship Basketball | $325.00 | ||
Adolph Rupp autograph of Rupp's Championship Basketball | $300.00 | ||
Adolph Rupp Autograph Program PSA/DNA Certified Authentic Kentucky Basketball | $329.99 | ||
ADOLPH RUPP Autographed Gene Gray Wildcat Print And Photo | $400.00 | ||
Adolph Rupp Basketball HOF Vintage Signed Slabbed Photograph PSA/DNA NM-MT 8 | $300.00 | ||
Adolph Rupp Signed Autograph First Day Cover Silk Cachet Envelope Scarce JSA ... | $299.00 | ||
Adolph Rupp Signed Index Card 3x5 Autographed Kentucky Wildcats Beckett BAS | $555.96 | ||
Adolph Rupp, John Wooden, Bobby Knight + 4 Basketball Signed US Postal Cover | $329.99 |