The 1962 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference during the 1962 college football season, the winning margin was provided by a field goal by Clarkie Mayfield, one of the heroes of the game, who later died at The Beverly Hills Supper Club, fire in Southgate, Kentucky, on which date?
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1962 Kentucky Wildcats football team The 1962 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference during the 1962 college football season. Coached by Charlie Bradshaw, a Bear Bryant disciple, the team was thinned by his brutal methods from 88 players to just 30. The team was thus known as the Thin Thirty. While the team's record was just 3–5–2, it did include a dramatic victory in the season finale against Tennessee in Knoxville, 12–10. The winning margin was provided by a field goal by Clarkie Mayfield, one of the heroes of the game, who later died in the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire on May 28, 1977.
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Beverly Hills Supper Club fire The Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky, is the third deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. It occurred on the night of May 28, 1977, during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. A total of 165 people died and more than 200 were injured as a result of the blaze. It was the deadliest fire in the United States since 1944, when 168 people were killed in the Hartford circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut.
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1901 Kentucky University football team The 1901 Kentucky University Pioneers football team represented Kentucky University, today known as Transylvania, during the 1901 college football season. Hogan Yancey was on the team.
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1985 Kentucky Wildcats football team The 1985 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fourth season under head coach Jerry Claiborne, the Wildcats compiled a 5–6 record (1–5 against SEC opponents), finished in ninth place in the SEC, and were outscored by their opponents, 211 to 194. The team played its home games in Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Claude Sullivan Claude Howard Sullivan (December 29, 1924 – December 6, 1967) was an American sports broadcaster. Born in Winchester, Kentucky, he did the play-by-play broadcasts of the University of Kentucky football and basketball games for nearly 20 years. He was associated with Lexington radio station WVLK, and was appointed director of programming by the station in addition to his sports broadcasting duties.
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1974–75 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team The 1974–75 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky and was the 1975 NCAA runner-up. The Head Coach was Joe B. Hall. The team was a member of the Southeast Conference and played their home games at Rupp Arena.
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1987–88 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team The 1987-88 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented University of Kentucky in the 1987-88 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Eddie Sutton and the team finished the season with an overall record of 27-6. However, the team forfeited three of their games to finish 25-5.
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Nate Northington Nathaniel "Nate" Northington (born 1947) was the first African-American to play college football in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). He became the first black athlete to play in an athletic contest of any kind in the SEC when his University of Kentucky Wildcats played Ole Miss in Lexington, Kentucky on Sept. 30, 1967.
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Bluegrass Miracle The Bluegrass Miracle was a 74-yard game-winning touchdown pass by the No. 16 LSU Tigers with no time left on the clock against the Kentucky Wildcats on November 9, 2002 at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky. The ball was tipped by a Kentucky player before being caught at the 15-yard line by Devery Henderson of LSU, who ran it in for the score.
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Ken Hutcherson Kenneth Lee Hutcherson (July 14, 1952 – December 18, 2013) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League and senior pastor at Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Washington, where he had been since 1985. His nickname from his NFL days was "The Hutch". Hutcherson died on December 18, 2013, after more than a decade-long battle with prostate and bone cancer. Ken Hutcherson is survived by his mother, wife, and four children.
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1997 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament The 1997 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament took place from March 6-9, 1997 at The Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee. The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team won the tournament and the SEC’s automatic bid to the 1997 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament by defeating the Georgia Bulldogs by a score of 95-68 in the championship game.
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1963 Kentucky Wildcats football team The 1963 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference during the 1963 college football season.
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Mack Lee Hill Mack Lee Hill (August 17, 1940 – December 14, 1965) was an American football player, a running back at Southern University and for the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs for two seasons (1964–65). He died suddenly after undergoing knee surgery, two days after a game against the Buffalo Bills.
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Kentucky State University Kentucky State University (KSU) is a public university in Frankfort, Kentucky. Founded in 1886 as the State Normal School for Colored Persons, KSU was the second state-supported institution of higher learning in Kentucky. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 2,025 and a total graduate enrollment of 134.
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1970–71 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team The 1970–71 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team was head coach Adolph Rupp's second to last team. While not as successful as his past Wildcats teams, would go reach the Elite Eight, finishing the season with a 22-6 record (16-2) and a Southeastern Conference regular season championship.
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Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Association The Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Association was a short-lived intercollegiate athletic football conference that existed from 1914 to 1916. The league had members, as its name suggests, in the state of Kentucky.
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Kansas State Wildcats football The Kansas State Wildcats football program (variously Kansas State, K-State, or KSU) is the intercollegiate football program of the Kansas State University Wildcats. The program is classified in the NCAA Division I Bowl Subdivision (FBS), and the team competes in the Big 12 Conference.
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1928 Kentucky Wildcats football team The 1928 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the Kentucky Wildcats of the University of Kentucky during the 1928 college football season.
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1903 Kentucky University Pioneers football team The 1903 Kentucky University Pioneers football team represented Kentucky University, today known as Transylvania, during the 1903 college football season. The team claimed a championship of the south. Nash Buckingham rated Kentucky University and Vanderbilt as best in the south.
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1991–92 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team The 1991–92 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in NCAA competition in the 1991–92 season. Coached by Rick Pitino, the Wildcats were, then as now, a member of the Southeastern Conference and played their home games at Rupp Arena.
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Blanton Collier Blanton Long Collier (July 2, 1906 – March 22, 1983) was an American football head coach who coached at the University of Kentucky between 1954 and 1961 and for the Cleveland Browns in the National Football League (NFL) between 1963 and 1970. His 1964 Browns team won the NFL championship and remains the second most recent Cleveland professional sports team to win a title.
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Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team is an American college basketball team that represents the University of Kentucky. Kentucky is the most successful NCAA Division I basketball program in history in terms of both all-time wins (2,237) and all-time winning percentage (.765). The Wildcats are currently coached by John Calipari.