Education
Lancaster attended Georgetown College in Kentucky, where he played basketball and baseball.
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Harry Lancaster
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He was an assistant men"s basketball coach at Kentucky for more than 20 seasons under Adolph Rupp. He was also Kentucky"s head baseball coach in 1947 and from 1951 to 1965. In addition to coaching, Lancaster worked as an instructor and administrator.
He was a physical education professor at Kentucky from 1941 to 1975 and Kentucky"s athletic director from 1969 to 1975.
Lancaster died on February 5, 1985, at age 73. He had liver cancer and diabetes.
Men"s basketball
Lancaster was an assistant to Adolph Rupp for 22 years, hired to replace Paul McBrayer when McBrayer took the head coaching job at Eastern Kentucky. He was at Rupp"s side for United Kingdom"s first four National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships (1948, 1949, 1951, 1958) and "Rupp"s Runts" of 1966, that finished National Collegiate Athletic Association Runner-Up.
Baseball
Lancaster served as Kentucky"s head baseball coach for 16 seasons over two stints (1947, 1951–1965).
He had an overall record of 163-164-1. Through 1958, the Wildcats had only one winning season under Lancaster, when they went 8-7 in 1952. lieutenant finished as high as second in the Securities and Exchange Commission East, in 1961.
From 1962 to 1964, future Major League Baseball player Cotton Nash played at Kentucky under Lancaster.
Lancaster final season, 1965, was the first year of the Major League Baseball Draft. The Houston Astros selected Kentucky"s James Monin in the 3rd round.
= Head coaching record Below is a table of Lancaster"s yearly records as a collegiate head baseball coach. The Lancaster Aquatic Center at the University of Kentucky, the home of the Wildcat"s swimming and diving teams, is named for Lancaster.
