1967 Kentucky Wildcats football team

The 1967 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference during the 1967 NCAA University Division football season.[1]

1967 Kentucky Wildcats football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
1967 record2–8 (1–6 SEC)
Head coachCharlie Bradshaw (6th season)
Home stadiumStoll Field/McLean Stadium
1967 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 2 Tennessee $ 6 –0 –0  9 –2 –0
No. 8 Alabama 5 –1 –0  8 –2 –1
Florida 4 –2 –0  6 –4 –0
Ole Miss 4 –2 –1  6 –4 –1
Georgia 3 –2 –0  7 –4 –0
LSU 3 –2 –1  7 –3 –1
Auburn 3 –3 –0  6 –4 –0
Kentucky 1 –6 –0  2 –8 –0
Vanderbilt 0 –5 –0  2 –7 –1
Mississippi State 0 –6 –0  1 –9 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

On September 30, Kentucky running back Nathaniel "Nate" Northington became the first African-American scholarship athlete to play in an Southeastern Conference game in the Wildcats' home game against Ole Miss.[2][lower-alpha 1] His debut was bittersweet as it came the day after the death of Greg Page, an African-American defensive end who had arrived at UK alongside Northington. Page died from complications of a paralyzing spinal cord injury suffered in an August 22 practice.[4] Northington only played for three minutes before suffering a separated shoulder, and the Wildcats would lose 26–13.[4]

Footnotes
  1. Northington was not the first African American to play at the varsity level in the SEC, although he was the first to do so on a scholarship. The conference's first African American varsity athlete was Stephen Martin, a baseball walk-on at Tulane, who made his varsity debut in 1966 (1965–66 school year), which was Tulane's last season as an SEC member.[3]
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References
  1. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/kentucky/1967-schedule.html
  2. Kindred, Dave. "The Forgotten Trailblazer". Sports on Earth. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
  3. "Tulane Mourns the Passing of Integration Pioneer Stephen Martin Sr" (Press release). Tulane Green Wave. May 16, 2013. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
  4. Story, Mark (September 22, 2016). "UK reveals sculpture honoring first black football players". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved January 30, 2018.


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