{{Short description|American basketball player}} {{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Distinguish|Joe Adcock}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Billy Joe Adcock | image = | image_size = | caption = | alt = | birth_date = | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 2 | weight_lb = | birth_place = Evansville, Indiana, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | high_school = West (Nashville, Tennessee) | college = Vanderbilt (1947–1950) | draft_year = 1950 | draft_round = 8 | draft_pick = 88 | draft_team = Fort Wayne Pistons | career_start = | career_end = | career_number = | career_position = Forward / guard | highlights = *2× First-team All-SEC (1948, 1950) *2× AP Honorable mention All-American (1948, 1950) }} '''Billy Joe Adcock''' was a basketball player for the Vanderbilt Commodores. A prominent forward,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19490209&id=9Wc0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=t8YEAAAAIBAJ&pg=899,2430605&hl=en|work=Times Daily|date=February 9, 1949|title=Billy Joe Adcock Of Vanderbilt Is Leading Scorers}}</ref> he was the first player to be awarded a basketball scholarship by the school.<ref name=vandytales>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8VR_CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT42|author=Bill Traughber|title=Vanderbilt Basketball: Tales of Commodore Hardwood History|date=October 16, 2012|isbn=9781614237242}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Huggins |first=Harold |url=http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/sports/extra-efforts-paid-hall-fame-career-former-vanderbilt-great |title=Extra efforts paid off in Hall of Fame career for former Vanderbilt great |newspaper=Nashville City Paper |date=February 9, 2011 |accessdate=October 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003192303/http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/sports/extra-efforts-paid-hall-fame-career-former-vanderbilt-great |archive-date=October 3, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was also the school's first All-American basketball selection, by the ''Sporting News'' in 1950.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/vucommodores/docs/2013-14_factbook__with_covers_/76 |title=2013-14 Vanderbilt Men's Basketball Fact Book by Vanderbilt Commodores |work=ISSUU |accessdate=October 2, 2015}}</ref> Adcock retired as Vanderbilt's all-time leading scorer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/news/2014/retired-monsanto-leader-recalls-years-as-vanderbilt-basketball-standout/ |title=Retired Monsanto leader recalls years as Vanderbilt basketball standout |website=engineering.vanderbilt.edu |publisher=Vanderbilt School of Engineering |date=March 25, 2014 |accessdate=October 2, 2015}}</ref> He attended West High School in Nashville, where he was a three-year letterman in football and baseball as well as basketball.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tshf.net/halloffame/adcock-billy-joe/ |title=Adcock, Billy Joe « Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame |work=Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame |accessdate=October 2, 2015}}</ref>
==Early years== Adcock was born in Evansville, Indiana, but his family soon moved to Jackson, Tennessee.<ref name=vandytales/>
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