1967 Kentucky Wildcats football team

The 1967 Kentucky Wildcats football team were an American football team that represented the University of Kentucky as a member of the Southeastern Conference during the 1967 NCAA University Division football season. In their sixth season under head coach Charlie Bradshaw, the team compiled a 2–8 record (1–6 in the SEC).[1]

1967 Kentucky Wildcats football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
1967 record2–8 (1–6 SEC)
Head coach
Home stadiumStoll Field/McLean Stadium
1967 Southeastern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 2 Tennessee $ 6 –0 –09 –2 –0
No. 8 Alabama 5 –1 –08 –2 –1
Florida 4 –2 –06 –4 –0
Ole Miss 4 –2 –16 –4 –1
Georgia 3 –2 –07 –4 –0
LSU 3 –2 –17 –3 –1
Auburn 3 –3 –06 –4 –0
Kentucky 1 –6 –02 –8 –0
Vanderbilt 0 –5 –02 –7 –1
Mississippi State 0 –6 –01 –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]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23at Indiana*
L 10–1242,311
September 30Ole Miss
L 13–26
October 7Auburn
L 7–48
October 14VPI*
  • McLean Stadium
  • Lexington, KY
L 14–24
October 21at LSU
L 7–30
October 28 No. 6 Georgia
  • McLean Stadium
  • Lexington, KY
L 7–3128,000
November 4West Virginia*
  • McLean Stadium
  • Lexington, KY
W 22–730,000
November 11at Vanderbilt
W 12–7
November 18at Florida
L 12–2850,833
November 25 No. 2 Tennessee
  • McLean Stadium
  • Lexington, KY (rivalry)
L 7–17
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to the game

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]

References
  1. "1967 Kentucky Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  2. Kindred, Dave. "The Forgotten Trailblazer". Sports on Earth. Archived from the original on January 28, 2018. 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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