TABLE OF CONTENTS History & Tradition (2-74) Season Leaders ......................................... 100-101 Kentucky Football History .................................2-4 Annual Leaders ......................................... 102-108 Wildcat Traditions & Legends ............................5-9 Longest Plays ............................................ 109-110 Pioneers of Integration in the SEC .................10-11 300-Yard Passers ...............................................111 All-Americans .....................................................12 100-Yard Receivers ................................... 112-113 All-SEC Selections ..........................................13-15 100-Yard Rushers ...................................... 114-115 Academic Honors ..........................................16-18 300-Tackle Club ................................................116 College Football Hall of Fame ........................19-21 Kroger Field .............................................. 117-118 Miscellaneous Honors/Awards......................22-34 List of Games at Kroger Field .................... 119-120 National Good Works Team ...............................35 Kroger Field Records.........................................121 Wuerffel Trophy .................................................36 Kentucky vs. All Opponents in Kroger Field ......122 Retired Jerseys: Ring of Honor ......................37-45 Year-by-Year Records ................................ 123-124 Kentucky Bowl History ..................................45-59 Annual Kentucky Statistics ....................... 125-126 Kentucky in the Polls .....................................60-61 Annual Opponent Statistics ...................... 127-128 Kentucky vs. Ranked Teams ...........................62-64 All-Time Coaching Records ...............................129 UK Players in the NFL/AFL Draft ....................65-68 All-Time Assistant Coaches....................... 130-133 UK Players in the Pros ...................................69-72 Kentucky vs. All Opponents ...................... 134-135 UK Players in the Super Bowl .............................73 All-Time Series Scores .............................. 136-139 Pro Bowl Wildcats ..............................................74 All-Time vs. 2018 Opponents ................... 140-144 All-Time Lettermen .................................. 145-152 Kentucky Records (75-170) All-Time Results ........................................ 153-166 Individual Records .........................................75-85 UK’s Fourth Quarter Game Winners ........ 167-168 Team Records ................................................86-90 All-Time Comeback Wins .................................169 Freshman Records .........................................91-93 Kentucky in Overtime .......................................170 Kentucky’s SEC Statistical Champions ...........94-95 Game-winning Field Goals ...............................170 Career Leaders ..............................................96-99 CREDITS The 2018 University of Kentucky Football Fact Additional Photography by: David Coyle/ & Record Book is published by the University of Team Coyle Photography, UK News and Public Kentucky Athletics Department. Relations, UK Archives, National Football League Written, compiled and edited by: Susan Lax, Layout and Design: Brandon Kolditz Tony Neely, Evan Crane, Matt May, UK News and Public Relations. Printing: Welch Printing Principal photography by: UK Athletics/Chet The University of Kentucky is an Equal White, Britney Howard, Barry Westerman, Aaron Opportunity Employer. Borton, Elliott Hess For the 2018 Prospectus, please visit UKAthletics.com 2018 University of Kentucky Football Record Book UKathletics.com | @UKFootball 1 KENTUCKY FOOTBALL HISTORY From UK’s first All-American, Clyde Johnson, edge of the game. Miller began the 1892 season, to its most recent, Jon Toth; from Professor A.M. then graciously stepped aside later in the year for Miller to Coach Mark Stoops; from old Stoll Field to John A. Thompson, who had more experience with Commonwealth Stadium to Kroger Field; from the the sport. Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association to the Some successful years in the early 1900s dot Southeastern Conference; and with all the ensuing the UK record book. Kentucky finished 7-1 in 1903 changes, Kentucky football holds a unique and under Coach C.A. Wright; 9-1 in 1904 under Coach storied tradition that began in 1881. F.E. Schact; 9-1-1 in 1907 with Coach J. White UK football holds a captivating list of firsts: Guyn, and 9-1 in 1909 under E.R. Sweetland. UK was the first South eastern Conference team The greatest UK team of that era was the to introduce football, which it did in 1881; UK 1898 squad, known simply to Kentuckians as “The played in the first and only Great Lakes Bowl in Immortals.” To this day, the Immortals remain 1947, defeating Villanova, 24-14; Kentucky tackle the only undefeated, untied, and unscored upon Bob Gain was awarded the 1950 Outland Trophy, team in UK football history. The Immortals were making him the first player from the SEC to claim coached by W.R. Bass and ended the year a perfect the honor; the Wildcats’ Nat Northington was 7-0-0, despite an average weight of 147 pounds the first African-American player to sign with a per player. Victories came easily for this squad, as South eastern Conference institution and the first the Immortals raced by Kentucky University (18-0), to play in a league contest – vs. Ole Miss in 1967, Georgetown (28-0), Company H of the 8th Mas- and in 1969 Wilbur Hackett became the first sachusetts (59-0), Louisville Athletic Club (16-0), African-American captain for any SEC team. Then, Centre (6-0), 160th Indiana (17-0) and Newcastle in 1989, UK became the first SEC school to win the Athletic Club (36-0). coveted College Football Association Academic Besides Bass, two of the most successful Achievement Award for highest graduation rate. coaches in the early stages of UK football were E.R. In 127 seasons, Kentucky has participated in Sweetland and Harry Gamage. Sweetland compiled 1,268 contests. UK football has won one national a 23-5 mark in three seasons (1909-10, 12). His championship, two Southeastern Conference best year was 9-1 in ’09. Gamage took the reins championships and appeared in 17 bowls. of the UK program in 1927 and remained until UK football has had 16 National Football following the 1933 campaign. In between, Gamage League first-round draft choices, one Outland led the Wildcats to a combined 32-25-5 record. His Trophy winner, one Wuerffel Trophy winner, 24 best season was 6-1-1 in ’29. first-team All-Americans (selected 28 times), 17 One of Gamage’s brightest moments came Academic All-Americans (selected 20 times), 78 during the 1930 season. During the 57-0 blanking first-team All-SEC players (selected 105 times), and of Maryville, UK running back Shipwreck Kelly 647 Academic All-SEC selections. rushed for a school-record 280 yards in leading the Kentucky football got its start on Nov. 12, Cats. 1881. Kentucky, known in those days as A&M More than a decade after Gamage had left UK, College, Kentucky State College and/or State Uni- a young man by the name of Paul “Bear” Bryant versity of Kentucky, defeated Kentucky University arrived on the scene at Lexington in 1946. Bryant by the clumsy score of 7 1/4 to 1. The game of quickly grabbed the UK program by the collar and football resembled more of a rugby form and the turned the Cats into a national power. scoring procedure is still unclear. Though football Bryant took UK to eight consecutive winning came to Kentucky in 1881, it quickly vanished after seasons (1946-53) and helped the Wildcats claim the three-game season. UK finished 1-2 in the their first national championship and Southeastern inaugural campaign, but the lid was shut on UK Conference championship in 1950. He also sent football for the next nine seasons. UK squads to four bowl games which included the Football returned to the University of Kentucky 1947 Great Lakes Bowl, 1950 Orange Bowl, 1951 in 1891, when UK defeated Georgetown College, Sugar Bowl, and the 1952 Cotton Bowl. 8-2, on April 10, 1891. The sport would not again The biggest win in UK football history came be interrupted until the 1943 season because of under Bryant. After leading Kentucky to its first SEC World War II. title and a 10-1 regular-season record, UK found The first known head football coach at Ken- itself matched with defending national champion tucky was Professor A.M. Miller, who the students Oklahoma in the 1951 Sugar Bowl. The Wildcats asked to coach despite his admitted limited knowl- scored early and held off the Sooners, 13-7, break- 2 UKathletics.com | @UKFootball 2018 University of Kentucky Football Record Book KENTUCKY FOOTBALL HISTORY ing Oklahoma’s 31-game winning streak which is (33-0) in Athens, Ga., and beat Florida (14-7) in currently the ninth-longest in NCAA history. Gainesville, Fla. In the 1990s, research by Jeff Sagarin, who In the Curci era, players like Sonny Collins (UK compiles the Sagarin Computer Ratings for USA To- career leader with 3,835 yards rushing), All-Ameri- day, indicated that UK is the national champion for cans Warren Bryant and Art Still and multi-talented the 1950 season under that ranking system. Derrick Ramsey, wore the blue and white. In all, Also under Bryant, tackle Bob Gain became the Curci worked nine years, the longest term of any first UK and SEC player to win the Outland Trophy UK head coach. in 1950. Other standouts