Forest Sale
American college basketball player and politician (1911-1985)
Forest E. "Aggie" Sale (June 25, 1911 – December 4, 1985) was an American college basketball player at the University of Kentucky from 1930 to 1933. He played for coach Adolph Rupp and was one of Rupp's first NCAA All-Americans.
Sale attended Kavanaugh High School in Anderson County, Kentucky prior to matriculating at the University of Kentucky. As a 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) forward/center, he was a rather tall player for his era. Sale used his height to his advantage and was noted as both a good scorer and rebounder. In his three seasons with the Wildcats team, Sale played in 50 career games and scored 657 points. He was twice named a consensus All-American, and as a senior in 1932–33 Sale was selected as the Helms Athletic Foundation (HAF) National Player of the Year. That year, Kentucky won the Southeastern Conference regular season and SEC Tournament titles and finished with a 21–3 overall record. In addition, the team was later retroactively named a national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, although Helms findings are not officially recognized by the NCAA.
After college, Sale became a high school history teacher and basketball coach before joining the United States Navy and fighting in World War II for a year. He returned to being a teacher and coach, and then from 1964 to 1967 he ran his own Sale Sporting Goods Store.
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