: b. The other two officers assigned to assist Wass de Czege in preparing the curricula for the school were Lieutenant Colonels Hal Winton and Douglas Johnson.

Two other clubs, the Kentucky Colonels, and the Spirits of St. Louis, were disbanded upon the merger.

After the Colonels refused to play under these conditions, league commissioner George Mikan ruled that the Americans were responsible for providing an acceptable playing facility.

Indeed, they were on far weaker financial footing than the team acknowledged to be the last ABA team left out of the expansion, the Kentucky Colonels.

However, the Colonels were shut out because the Chicago Bulls owned the NBA rights to the Colonels ' best player, Artis Gilmore, and wouldn't have allowed the merger to go through unless the Colonels were left out.

Divisions were typically commanded by Colonels or Major Generals, or Colonels or Major Generals of Aviation in the Air Force.

The others were the 11th-place Senators, the ninth-place Louisville Colonels and the fourth-place Baltimore Orioles.

Two of the first Colonels appointed in the Army ( Edward Montagu and John Pickering ) were known extreme Independents.

While the Colonels were really a traveling team out of Chicago they are usually accepted as a continuation of the Brecks franchise.

The Louisville Colonels were created in 1926 to fill the schedules of the expanded NFL, but they were a traveling team that operated out of Chicago.

While the Colonels were really a traveling team out of Chicago, they are usually accepted as a continuation of the Brecks franchise.

However, the ABA-NBA merger took place in June 1976 and the Spirits and the Kentucky Colonels were the only two teams left out of the merged league.

The only other three ABA teams to complete the 1975-76 ABA season yet not move on to the NBA were the Kentucky Colonels, Spirits of St. Louis and Virginia Squires, all of whom played in cities that, unlike Salt Lake City, never had an NBA franchise afterward.

The actual killing was done mainly by Ropata Wahawaha and the Ngati Porou, but it was sanctioned by the leaders of the Militia, Colonels Whitmore and Richmond, who were present.

First a number of its members were accused of being agents of the Polish regime, now led by The Colonels since Pilsudski ’ s death in 1935, and liquidated as a result.

During the Regime of the Colonels, the Air Force aided King Constantine in his failed countercoup of December 1967, and many leading Air Force Generals were tortured by the ESA men of Dimitrios Ioannidis.

The Colonels were supposed to receive center Tom Owens and $ 500, 000 in cash for Issel, but the $ 500, 000 never arrived.

These were forty former French Jedburgh volunteers who embarked at Glascow with layover at Port Said, Bombay and Colombo, and gathered in a camp at Ceylon on November 1944. Notable Force 136 members dropped in Laos during 1945 are French Colonels Jean Deuve ( January 22 ), Jean Le Morillon ( February 28 ) and Jean Sassi ( June 4 ).

The Colonels advanced to the Division I-AA playoffs as the conference champion, based on their 32 – 29 overtime victory over then fifth-ranked Texas State, but eventually lost to the then No. 3 ranked Furman Paladins, 14 – 12, in Paladin Stadium in Greenville, S. C.

Two former Colonels in the Argentine army, from Centro de Militares Para la Democracia Argentina delivered a report based on their 1999 investigation.

The Colonels played their home games at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center ( Freedom Hall ) and at the Louisville Convention Center ( now Louisville Gardens ).

Beginning with this season the Colonels moved their home games from the Louisville Convention Center ( now Louisville Gardens ) to Freedom Hall.

13, 821 fans watched the Colonels defeat the Baltimore Bullets 111-85 in Freedom Hall.

On October 8, 1971, the Colonels hosted the Milwaukee Bucks and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at Freedom Hall in front of over 18, 000 fans.

The very next night the Colonels hosted the New York Knicks in Freedom Hall.

On October 6, 1972 the Phoenix Suns played the Colonels at Freedom Hall.

In preseason play against the NBA the Colonels defeated the Houston Rockets 110-102 at Freedom Hall on September 21, 1973 and defeated the Kansas City-Omaha Kings 110-99 the following night.

In preseason play against the NBA the Colonels lost a game in Lincoln, Nebraska to the Kansas City-Omaha Kings 102-91 on September 29, 1974 ; beat the Washington Bullets 118-95 at Freedom Hall on October 1, 1974 ; lost by one point on the road to the Houston Rockets on October 5, 1974, 96-95 ; beat the Detroit Pistons 109-100 at Freedom Hall on October 8, 1974 and on October 12, 1974 defeated the Chicago Bulls at Freedom Hall 93-75.

In preseason play the Colonels defeated the Chicago Bulls 95-86 at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 1, 1975 ; lost to the New York Knicks in Landover, Maryland at the Capital Centre 107-102 on October 4, 1975 ; defeated the Detroit Pistons 114-113 on October 5, 1975 in Cincinnati ; defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 96-91 in Freedom Hall on October 10, 1975 ; lost an overtime game to the Detroit Pistons in Detroit on October 12, 1975, 115-107 ; defeated the Buffalo Braves 120-116 in Freedom Hall on October 14, 1975 ; defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 112-110 in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 17, 1975 ; and won another ABA vs. NBA exhibition on October 19, 1975 with a 121-111 victory over the Washington Bullets in Lexington, Kentucky.

In 2007 the Wilkes University Colonels Baseball Team were Freedom Conference MAC Champions, led by Coaches: Folek, Bavitz, Klinetob, Lipton, and Toomey

The 1974 – 75 season ended for the Pacers with the ABA Finals played in Market Square Arena and Freedom Hall against their archrivals, the Kentucky Colonels.

A Hall of Famer, Clarke played for and managed both the Louisville Colonels and Pittsburgh Pirates.

In 1900 Dreyfuss acquired controlling interest of the Pirates and brought 14 Colonels players with him, including future Hall of Famers Honus Wagner and Fred Clarke, marking the end of the original Colonels organization and Louisville as a Major League Baseball host city.

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The arena has hosted professional basketball, including Hall of Famers Dan Issel and Artis Gilmore, as the Kentucky Colonels played two games there before the 1976 ABA-NBA merger.

However Pulliam's greatest contribution to Colonels occurred when he convinced Dreyfuss to sign future Hall of Famer Honus Wagner to the team.

On July 14, 1973, the legendary White was killed by a drunk driver while loading equipment in his car for a concert with the New Kentucky Colonels.

Of the original 11 teams, only the Kentucky Colonels and Indiana Pacers remained for all nine seasons without relocating, changing team names, or folding.

The Americans played fairly well in their first season, tying the Kentucky Colonels for the fourth ( and final ) playoff spot in the Eastern Division.

The county is named for two brothers: John C. and William F. Upton, both Colonels in the Confederate army.

Combs in a photograph taken while he was playing for the Louisville Colonels

* Greg Stotelmyer, is currently the " Voice of the Colonels " for the Eastern Kentucky University's men's basketball and football teams.

Colonels paid for their officers.

Another person suggested as the possible originator of the knuckleball is Toad Ramsey, who pitched for the Louisville Colonels in the old American Association.

Reese impressed Colonels owner Cap Neal who signed him to a contract for a $ 200 bonus.

One pitcher, Guy Hecker, won a Triple Crown in a major league that is currently defunct ; he led the American Association in wins, strikeouts, and ERA in 1884 while pitching for the Louisville Colonels.

Louisville, Kentucky had two professional American football teams in the National Football League: the Breckenridges ( or Brecks for short ) from 1921 to 1923 and the Colonels in 1926.

The Stars defeated the Texas Chaparrals 4 games to none in the first round of the playoffs, beat the Indiana Pacers 4 games to 3 in a fiercely contested semifinal series, and edged out the Kentucky Colonels 4 games to 3 in another fiercely contested series, this time for the ABA championship.

It had additional resonance because, at the time of its release, Greece had been ruled for two years by the " Regime of the Colonels ".

The record for most runs scored by a player in a single game is 7, set by Guy Hecker of the American Association's Louisville Colonels on August 15, 1886.

The record for most runs scored by a team in a single game is 36, set by the Chicago Colts ( now the Chicago Cubs ) against the Louisville Colonels ( which joined the National League in 1892 ) on June 29, 1897.

His former teammate Charlie Moran, then coaching the Centre College Praying Colonels football team in Danville, Kentucky, asked him to scout the national powerhouse Harvard Crimson, an upcoming opponent for Centre.

As for the Queen's Cavalry Standard, it is just trotted in the presence of the Queen and the Royal Colonels.

Brown, owner of the Kentucky Colonels, by giving him a $ 3. 3 million settlement in exchange for shutting his team down.

The Kentucky Colonels were a member of the American Basketball Association for all of the league's nine years.

Gilmore's signing would help make the Colonels a legitimate powerhouse for years to come.

The Colonels ' overall regular season record was 448-296 ; their. 602 winning percentage is better than that of any ABA franchise except for the Minnesota Muskies who only played one season.