Players' Names And Pictures

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44 Terry Samuels, TE (1990-1993)
Hometown: Louisville, KY (Mal3 High School)

1994 Draft: Selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the 6th round (172nd overall).

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44 Arvel Carroll, Offensive Back (Runningback/Fullback/Halfback fall in this category)
(1969-72)
Louisville, KY

[Matt Dillon]

Derek Smith (shown with Dennis Johnson)

[Matt Dillon]

Perky Bryant

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Derek Smith (shown with Dennis Johnson)

Didn't Smith play with Lorenzen at Fort Thomas Highlands? Think he did. Memory a bit fuzzy.

[Matt Dillon]

Didn't Smith play with Lorenzen at Fort Thomas Highlands? Think he did. Memory a bit fuzzy.

He did and they were both very good bb players as well as outstanding fb players.

[Matt Dillon]

Perky Bryant

Perky was quite a h.s. player for Evarts H.S. in Harlan Co. lettering in four sports. For someone who may not know, Perky is UK BB player Trent Noah's grandfather.

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Leaving the best for last??

43 Freshman iteration of former safety turned linebacker, DeAndre Square (he would later wear jersey numbers 17 and 5).
Hometown: Detroit, MI (Cass Tech)

A rare three-time Captain, Square was a different breed of Inside linebacker who used his game knowledge to read and react to the play providing coverage for both the pass and run. He sealed the bowl victory over Penn State with an interception as Penn State was driving for a score.

He celebrated in the Swamp in his freshman year, he would earn an All-SEC Freshman award for his early exploits even though he never started a game until the bowl.

[CATHYnKY]

I graduated from Eastern HS with Arvel. He comes to our reunions and I would see him at football games. A super nice guy.

[Matt Dillon]

Dean Wells

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42 Derek Homer, RB (1997-2000)
Fort Knox, Kentucky (Fort Knox High School)

• Homer won the Kentucky "Mr. Football" Award at Fort Knox High School in 1996. At graduation he was the most prolific running back in Kentucky high school history, with 8,224 yards on 932 carries and 110 touchdowns. He averaged 8.8 yards per carry and 164.5 yards per game rushing over his career. As a senior, he gained 3,003 yards and 43 touchdowns on 295 carries.

• Knoxville News-Sentinel Freshman All-SEC team.

•Played in all 44 regular season games during his career.

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42 Nick Melillo, TE (2008-2011)
Louisville, Kentucky HS: Louisville Trinity High School
In one of his seasons he would score the only touchdown for UK against Vanderbilt.

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Dean Wells

Another good shot of Dean Wells:

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42 Tristan Yeomans LS (2017-2019)
Hometown: Waycross, GA (Ware County).

Yeomans was a long snapper at New Mexico Military Institute and the University of Kentucky (2016-19). He spent his freshman season at NMMI and then served as Kentucky's starting long snapper and holder for three years, appearing in 39 games.

He was perfect on 62 career holds.

He was also named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.

Post graduation Tristan has held GA/Coaching positions with DIII Defiance College (Ohio), University of Nebraska -Kearney, West Point (Army), and University of Charlotte.

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42 Houston Hogg, Jr. TB (1967-70)
Hometown: Hazard, Kentucky (started at Hazard High School where he played quarterback and
linebacker then finished his prep career at Daviess County in Owensboro, KY where he would play runningback).

A civil rights pioneer (along with three other black players) who was recruited to Kentucky to break the color barrier in the SEC. Kentucky's governor was instrumental in the push to get black players to the University of Kentucky. He and the University President launched a campaign to insure that it was accomplished
​on their watch.

Hogg said that he never experienced any racism while playing at Hazard or Daviess County, but that changed when he got to UK. The worst part of his experience appears to have been the death threats that he and his black teammates received while they were on the road in the SEC. He recounted stories of state troopers guarding the motel when they were out of town and being refused service as a team in restaurants because of their policies still resistant to the equality afforded by the civil rights legislation.