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Charlie Tyre
played on the 1956 Louisville Cardinal team that handed the second ranked Dayton Flyers their ONLY three losses that year in Dayton, in Louisville and in the finals of the N.I.T. at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Flyers were ranked #2 that year behind Bill Russell's San Francisco Dons (with K.C. Jones). The impetus for the Flyer ranking was winning the U.K.I.T. in Lexington, Kentucky where all four teams (Dayton, Kentucky, Utah and Minnesota) were ranked in the top 25. Louisville was coached by Peck Hickman and Dayton by Tom Blackburn. You should have seen the look on Adolph Rupp's face when he handed Coach Blackburn the trophy.
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