Players' Names And Pictures

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52 Kentucky football O-lineman Danny Neal (1969-72). Neal went on to 11 years in the NFL famously playing C-G for the Chicago Bears and blocking for Walter Payton. Served as captain his junior and senior years. He would later coach under Mike Ditka (one of Coach Ditka's only players to do so), and Buddy Ryan.

As an aside, Danny was born in my hometown of Corbin. I'm about five years older than him. I don't recall when he moved away, but I don't think he ever played for CHS.

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As an aside, Danny was born in my hometown of Corbin. I'm about five years older than him. I don't recall when he moved away, but I don't think he ever played for CHS.

The record shows him born in Corbin and high school at Louisville Atherton High School. No information about when he left Corbin for the concrete jungle!!

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52 Dustin Williams, was Kentucky's second
leading tackler in 2003. As a sophomore led the SEC in tackles per game. Williams had 100 tackles on the season as of November 11, 2003 (an average of 11.1 stops per game). With three games remaining, Williams already had become the first Wildcat to reach the century mark in tackles since Mike Schellenberger in 1995. A torn hamstring injury prior to August 2004 kept him out of play in 2004 and he left the team.

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52 Wesley Jackson, C (1991-94)

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52 Rick Nuzum, C (1971-74), looks to see if a gain was made against Vanderbilt [1974: Appeared in Kentuckian Yearbook, 1975/UK Archives. 📸D. Dolkart].

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A player from 1952, Jerry Mingis. I've got a press photo for him from 1952 it looks like the number is 53 to my naked failing eye. I'm posting him today because I have additional period photos of him (one reports him in number 74 which obviously doesn't fit his press photo. The second one is a Richmond, Virginia newspaper article showing him in 1956 trying to make the Richmond Spiders team and identifying him as a transfer from Kentucky. Guess the Bear got the better of him!!



October 15, 1952 Kentucky beats Cincinnati 14-6.

Action from the game shows the following Kentucky players:

LB Tommy Adkins (31)
Tackle Jerry Mingis (74). The 1952 UK Football Media Guide shows him as a freshman, meaning he would've been ineligible for varsity play based on existing rules.
John Griggs (55)

UC players:
Harry Andradis (66)
Nate Harlan (88)
Andy Matto (80)
Don Grammer (82)

Photo: John C Wyatt, Lexington Herald-Leader



Article from the Richmond, Virginia newspaper.

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Drake Jackson

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UK's future (@KashDaniel15 @Landon_Young_67 @THE_DRAKE_52) #MovingForward

2015.11.04 Photo: Mark Mahan

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Kelly Kirchbaum (#51)

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51 Doug Mosely (1948-51), C
Hometown: Luverne, AL

1951 Co-Captain (with Vito "Babe" Parilli(
All-SEC Second Team, 1950
All-SEC First Team, 1951


Football Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant (center) with Vito Parilli and Doug Moseley, team captains. Unknown date.

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#51 Kelly Kirchbaum, LB (1975-78)



October 12, 1976--Lexington, KY: LSU quarterback Pat Lyons (7) passes off the football as Kentucky's Kelly Kirchbaum (51) looks on during first quarter action here. Kentucky won 21-7. UPI TELEPHOTO



Game program cover photo:




Found this podcast link where Kelly Kirchbaum talks with a Penn State website about what are considered the greatest Kentucky football teams in UK history.

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51 Sherman Hinkebein (1938), Captain University of Kentucky Football. Rated as one of the top centers in the South.

"Principal reliance of Coaches Ab Kirwan and Bernie Shively this year is Captain Sherman Hinkebein, rated one of the best centers in the South." From Kentucky Alumnus magazine.

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51 ​​​​Bob Gain of the University of Kentucky is pictured, 1949. (AP Photo/John B. Kuiper)

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51 Chris Demaree, LB/DE (1998-2001)
Prep: Male High School, Louisville KY

Chris Demaree of Kentucky pressured Florida quarterback Rex Grossman during the game at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky. DIGITAL IMAGE. Mandatory Credit : Brian Bahr/Allsport 22 Sep 2001




Chris Demaree DE rushes to the fumble recovered by running back Travis Stephens Welcome! of the Tennessee Volunteers during the SEC football game on November 17, 2001 at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

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51 Mike Emanuel, LB (1972-75)
Hometown: Langhorne, PA

Photo from 1974 Kentucky Football Media Guide
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Game action in a 1974 win over LSU (20-13).




The defensive unit of the 1975 University of Kentucky football team called themselves The Dirty Dozen, after a movie about a daring raid behind enemy lines during World War II. The movie starred Lee Marvin and former Cleveland Browns great Jim Brown. In early October, the defensive unit, then ranked eighth in the nation, pose for a photo in military gear, with the help of J&H Army Surplus. Kneeling, from left, Rick Fromm, Bob Winkel, Mike Emanuel, Tom Ranieri, Jerry Blanton and Art Still. Standing, from left, Jim Kovach, Ray Carr, Tony Gray, Mike Siganos, Terry Haynes, Greg Woods. Click here to read the story that went with this photo. Click on the photo for a closer look. Photo by David Perry | Staff