Robert Edward Lavin (August 31, 1900 – November 1, 1972) was a college football and basketball player for the Kentucky Wildcats. On the football team, Lavin was a quarterback for coach Bill Juneau's Wildcats.[1] In the 55–0 loss to Centre in 1921, Lavin was his team's lone star.[2] The 1921 team scored on Vanderbilt for the first time.[3] He was a guard on the basketball team, playing with Basil Hayden.[4][5] The 1921 basketball team won a Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) championship.[6]

Bobby Lavin
Kentucky Wildcats
PositionQuarterback
Personal information
Born:(1900-08-31)August 31, 1900
Paris, Kentucky
Died:November 1, 1972(1972-11-01) (aged 72)
Brooklyn, New York
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight140 lb (64 kg)
Career history
CollegeKentucky (1920–1921)
High schoolParis

References

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  1. ^ "Kentucky Romps Over Maryville". The Kentucky Kernel. October 15, 1920. p. 6.
  2. ^ Camp, Walter (1922). National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Rules: Official Intercollegiate Football Guide. New York: Spalding's Athletic Library.
  3. ^ Russell, Fred, and Maxwell Edward Benson. Fifty Years of Vanderbilt Football. Nashville, TN, 1938
  4. ^ ""UK-20 GA-19 Champs 1921", Group portrait of the Kentucky Basketball Champions of South 1921 "Coach Bucheit - 'Jimmy' Wilhelm - W. L. Poynts - 'Gibby' Smith - 'Daddy' Boles - Sam Ridgeway - Paul Atkins - Basil Hayden - 'Bill' King - 'Bobby' Lavin" - Kentucky Digital Library". Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  5. ^ "UK Career Statistics for Bob Lavin".
  6. ^ Tom Wallace (January 13, 2012). The University of Kentucky Basketball Encyclopedia. p. 33. ISBN 9781613214794.