@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt130jknm.6, ISBN = {9780813153230}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt130jknm.6}, abstract = {Coach Murphy hired Ab as his backfield coach in 1926. Kentucky had graduated many veterans in addition to Kirwan, and the 1926 season was to end with two wins, six losses, and one tie. Though explainable enough, this poor record brought Kirwan’s first experience with disgruntled alumni. The weekend before the annual Thanksgiving Day game with Tennessee, some of the alumni members of the athletics board persuaded the president to call an athletics board meeting and ordered Murphy to turn over his job to an interim coach.However, the alumni coup turned sour when the team found out what had}, bookauthor = {Frank Furlong Mathias}, booktitle = {Albert D. Kirwan}, pages = {19--31}, publisher = {University Press of Kentucky}, title = {THE COACHING YEARS}, year = {1975} }