SamKat: Wildcat and Middletown Middie- Shelby Linville- dies

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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Wildcat and Middletown Middie- Shelby Linville- dies

These e-mails are by Jack Plymale, a 1944 Portsmouth Trojan football lineman under Coach Paul Walker, and myself, regarding shelby Linville's passing at 78.

*Sam, poosibly, even a greater thrill than watching great athletes is to
revel in the memory of that greatness and to marvel at the talent of their
tutors who could call on them for excellence and get it almost every time
and do it repetitively over long periods. The old Col at UK was a classic
example. I can stil remember a radio interview in which they had he and
several of his players in the late middle forties. He was talking about, and
to ,Wah-Wah Jones. The slow and rolling way he said WAWWAW and the affection
that was implied kinda rings through the years. I think Wah-Wah was an end
and made all american for Bear Bryant too. I think he pitched baseball
also . Paul Walker had a marvelous sense of humor and got almost exactly
what he wanted all the time with very little rancor or personal degradation.
He was a very demanding task master, but made these demands in a way that
implied(without saying it) they are for you, not me. We half way kidded him
for years that he got Jerry Lucas's dad a job at Armco so he would move
from Kyto middletown. Sorry to hear about Shelby Linville. What"s the old
bromide (One of Gib Lakeman's favorites): "all the great men are dying and I don"t
feel so good myself." I feel great!*
On 8/6/08, Sam Kegley wrote:
>
> Jack Plymale,
>
> I know that you have difficulty opening long links down in the mountains
> of Costa Rica, but you surely knew of Shelby Linville. Mr. Linville died in
> Middletown this past weekend. You played for the undefeated 1944
> Portsmouth Trojans football team coached by Paul Walker and shared many Ohio
> State football games along side of Paul, Jim Fout and Stephen "Doc" Yeagle.
> Coach Walker surely must have spoken of Shelby Linville. Shelby led the
> Middies to two Ohio State Championships before going to Kentucky and helping
> the Wildcats win Adolph Rupp's third NCAA Championship in 1951. I have to
> add that UK now has seven NCAA's and I believe that current UK Coach Billy
> Gillispie has many of the greatness qualites of Paul Walker, Adolph Rupp and
> Shelby Linville.
>
> http://www.wildcatnation.net/forum/showthread.php?t=44649
>
>
> Sam