Billy Joe Adcock was a

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player for the

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. A prominent forward, he was the first player to be awarded a basketball scholarship by the school. He was also the school's first All-American basketball selection, by the ''Sporting News'' in 1950. Adcock retired as Vanderbilt's all-time leading scorer. He attended West High School in

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, where he was a three-year letterman in football and baseball as well as basketball.

Early years

Adcock was born in

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, but his family soon moved to

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