debates led in 1924 to ending all varsity competition for women for the next fifty years.
Stanley, Gregory Kent. " 'Not conducive to the best interests of this institution': President James Kennedy Patterson, the Board of Trustees, and University of Kentucky Athletics, 1890–1910," Filson Club History Quarterly (1995) 69#2 pp. 159–170. President Patterson said football was too dangerous and not conducive to moral character. The Board overruled him in response to popular demand.
Pratt, Mike; Leach, Tom (January 18, 2021). Kentucky Basketball: Two Decades Behind the Scenes. University Press of Kentucky. doi:10.2307/j.ctv2175qqf.15. JSTOR j.ctv2175qqf.
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Digitized images of the University of Kentucky from the Glass plate negative collection, 1898–1918 housed at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center
