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The Red Towel tradition at WKU traces its roots to the legendary Coach Ed Diddle. Diddle coached men’s basketball at WKU from 1922 to 1964, retiring with 759 wins, the most by any NCAA coach at that time. As early as the 1920s Coach Diddle was carrying a wet towel as a way of cooling himself in the days before air conditioning, but gradually “it became kind of an instrument.” The towel became part of Diddle’s coaching technique. He struck his hand with it in frustration or slapped the floor with it. Instead of calling time-outs during games, he used the towel to signal players on the floor, and after he threw it into the air to celebrate a victory. Spectators in the bleachers tried to catch Diddle’s towel as he threw it into the air, and on at least one memorable occasion it landed on the head of WKU’s first President, Henry Hardin Cherry. In the 1920s and the 1930s, the towels were white, but in the years after World War II, the towel became red for the first time. The red towel increasingly caught the eye of the public and gradually became the symbol of Hilltopper athletics and then of the school more broadly. In 1971, Diddle’s successor as basketball coach, John Oldham, sketched a logo idea of a hand waving a red towel. That rough sketch was quickly transformed into a finished product that is largely unchanged 50 years later. - David Lee, University Historian 2021
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