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The 1950 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the 1950 college football season. The offense scored 393 points while the defense allowed 69 points. Led by head coach Bear Bryant, the Wildcats were the SEC champions and won the 1951 Sugar Bowl over the 10–0 No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners.
Kentucky State first fielded a football team in 1881, playing three games against rival Kentucky University. The team was revived in 1891. The team was revived in 1891. Both the inaugural 1881 squad and the revived 1891 squad have unknown coaches according to university records in winning two games and losing three. [ 6 ]
The 1962 Kentucky football team is the subject of a book, The Thin Thirty, by Shannon Ragland, published in August, 2007.The focus of the book is the '62 roster of players under first-year coach Charlie Bradshaw—a Bear Bryant disciple—who ended up thinning the team from 88 to 30 players via his brutal conditioning tactics and exploitation of players.
The Kentucky Wildcats football team competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) representing the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. The following is a complete list of seasons completed by the team.
All-Southern. He was chosen as the placekicker for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1920–1969 era. Carey Spicer: 1929–1931: Spicer and Gilb were brothers-in-law. Spicer was a two-time All-American basketball player. [2] Elmer Gilb: 1928: Gayle Mohney: 1925–1927: Mohney also played basketball. [3] Turner Gregg 1922 ...
The nickname "Wildcats" became synonymous with UK shortly after a 6–2 football road victory over Illinois on October 9, 1909. Commandant Philip W. Corbusier, then head of the military department at old State University, told a group of students in a chapel service following the game that the Kentucky football team had "fought like Wildcats."
Many Kentucky backers were distraught when Kentucky, trailing No. 1 Georgia three weeks ago, punted on fourth-and-8 from the Bulldogs 47-yard line with 2:58 left in the game.
McLean Stadium was the site of Kentucky football games until they were moved to Commonwealth Stadium in 1973. On that first game in 1880, which Transylvania University won over Centre College 13¾–0, "The two teams met in a cow pasture, belong to Hubert McGoodwin near Lexington, the present site of the University of Kentucky's Stoll Field . . .