Cawood Ledford

Cawood Ledford

Cawood Ledford (April 24, 1926 – September 5, 2001) was the longtime play-by-play announcer for the University of Kentucky basketball and football teams, primarily on radio but sometimes on television as well.

A native of Harlan, Kentucky, Ledford was educated at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He began broadcasting Kentucky Wildcats games in 1953.

He also worked as the play-by-play announcer for national radio broadcasts of the NCAA Men's Final Four on the CBS Radio Network, and called many runnings of the Kentucky Derby for CBS Radio. Ledford also did radio broadcasts for Kentucky Colonels games in the American Basketball Association. On a side of the Rupp Arena court, the words "Cawood's Court" are painted, a honor by the University of Kentucky dedicated to him in 2001.

Cawood Ledford was inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in 1987. Mr. Ledford won three Eclipse Awards for outstanding coverage of thoroughbred racing. He was also named Kentucky's Sportscaster-of-the-Year eighteen different times. Further, Mr. Ledford was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall-of-Fame in 1994. Cawood Ledford is widely regarded to be the finest basketball play-by-play man in history. He was a much beloved and respected figure in Kentucky, in college basketball, in college football, and in horse racing.

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