Cliff Barker 1998 Deaths
Cliff Barker
Age: 77a member of Kentucky's "Fabulous Five" which went 36-3 and won the school's first NCAA men's basketball championship in 1948; later that summer Barker and his four teammates at Kentucky – Alex Groza, Ralph Beard, Kenny Rollins and Wally Jones – teamed with AAU champion Phillips Oilers and coach Adolph Rupp to win the Olympic gold medal in London; of natural causes
Died: Satsuma, Fla., March 17, 1998Jim Barber | A - F | Binnie Barnes |