138 Days/Countdown to Football

[RV]

Tommy Cook




Alex Montgomery

[Matt Dillon]

Sorry to bring back a bigger number. Cumberland high school didn't produce that many good athletes that went to big programs like UK. So I thought I would bring this one in that went to UK back in the 1950's. This is Ron Cain. He played at UK from 1956 to 1959 and was a very good player. He was drafted by Denver and I always heard he was their final cut in 1960. As far as I know Cain never tried to play in the pros again after that. He went on to become a very good high school coach. He won a number of state championships at Seneca. He later coached at Cumberland in the 1980's. He was Maggard's coach when they got to the Class A state finals. Cain passed away quite a few years ago.

Didn't Ron have quite a bit of success as the HC at Somerset as well? It seems I remember the Briar Jumpers giving my beloved Hounds fits when a Cain coached there.

[CATHYnKY]

I look at these pictures and remember them. Some of the away games I made the road trip. But jeeeeez............can't be 5 or 6 years ago. Where has time gone???

[Matt Dillon]

For some of us older folks, this is a trip down memory lane, for sure.

[KevinHall]

Didn't Ron have quite a bit of success as the HC at Somerset as well? It seems I remember the Briar Jumpers giving my beloved Hounds fits when a Cain coached there.

I believe he did. His brother also coached at Somerset and had quite a bit of success too. IIRC, his name was John.

[Old School]

#17 Jeff Snedegar again. Tough, tough linebacker.



He was runner up for Mr. Football in Ohio, I think to Charles Woodson, who went on to win the Heisman Trophy. He was a quarterback during his first year at UK.

Against Tennessee in 1997 he was playing with a useless injured arm and he still managed to sack Peyton Manning.

[Matt Dillon]

16 and counting (Wesley Woodyard)

[Matt Dillon]

La'Rod King

[RV]

Cody Quinn




George Blanda

[Old School]

#16 Cody Quinn
Kentucky 45, South Carolina 38



Fun night.

[Matt Dillon]

15 and counting (Dusty Bonner)

[Matt Dillon]

C. J. Conrad

[Old School]

#15 Dusty Bonner again...



Those who say Hal Mumme only succeeded because he had Tim Couch generally don't have an answer for why Mumme took UK to a 4-4 SEC record and bowl game in 1999 with Dusty Bonner.

[RV]

Marcus McWilson




Babe Parilli

[Old School]

#14 Terry Beadles

Check out how all the men in the stands are dressed.

I believe this is a handoff to Rodger Bird in the 1965 game against Tennessee. If UK, which was ranked in the Top 10 earlier that season, had won, they'd have gone to a bowl game. UK had been given an invitation to the Gator Bowl, but turned it down, confident they'd get a bid to a more prestigious bowl game. Days later, starting QB Rick Norton's leg was broken vs. Houston, in the Astrodome. UK went from 6-2 (losses only at Auburn and at LSU) to 6-4 and did not receive another bowl invitation.