1950 Kentucky Wildcats football team

1950 Kentucky Wildcats football

SEC champion
Sugar Bowl champion
Sugar Bowl, W 13–7 vs. Oklahoma
Conference Southeastern Conference
Ranking
Coaches No. 7
AP No. 7
1950 record 11–1 (5–1 SEC)
Head coach Bear Bryant
Home stadium Stoll Field/McLean Stadium
1950 SEC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#7 Kentucky $ 5 – 1 – 0     11 – 1 – 0
#4 Tennessee 4 – 1 – 0     11 – 1 – 0
#16 Alabama 6 – 2 – 0     9 – 2 – 0
#20 Tulane 3 – 1 – 1     6 – 2 – 1
Georgia Tech 4 – 2 – 0     5 – 6 – 0
Georgia 3 – 2 – 1     6 – 3 – 3
Mississippi State 3 – 4 – 0     4 – 5 – 0
Vanderbilt 3 – 4 – 0     7 – 4 – 0
LSU 2 – 3 – 2     4 – 5 – 2
Florida 2 – 4 – 0     5 – 5 – 0
Ole Miss 1 – 5 – 0     5 – 5 – 0
Auburn 0 – 7 – 0     0 – 10 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1950 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the 1950 college football season. The offense scored 393 points while the defense allowed 69 points. Led by head coach Bear Bryant, the Wildcats were the SEC champions and by winning the Sugar Bowl were listed as the #1 ranked team 40 years later in a computer ranking produced by Jeff Sagarin, but neither the NCAA nor College Football Data Warehouse recognizes this claim.[1][2]

The 1950 Kentucky team concluded its season with a victory over Bud Wilkinson's #1 ranked and NCAA champion Oklahoma Sooners in the Sugar Bowl. The living players from the 1950 Wildcats team were honored during halftime of a game during the 2005 season as the #1 ranked team for the 1950 season, even though they finished the season ranked #7 by the AP. In 1990, Jeff Sagarin released a retroactive ranking of teams for the 1950 season and Kentucky was listed #1.

Schedule

Date Opponent# Rank# Site Result
September 16, 1950 North Texas State* No. 13 McLean Stadium • Lexington, KY W 25–0  
September 23, 1950 LSU No. 13 McLean Stadium • Lexington, KY W 14–0  
September 30, 1950 Ole Miss No. 13 McLean Stadium • Lexington, KY W 27–0  
October 7, 1950 Dayton* No. 6 McLean Stadium • Lexington, KY W 40–0  
October 14, 1950 Cincinnati* No. 5 McLean Stadium • Lexington, KY W 41–7  
October 21, 1950 at Villanova* No. 4 Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA W 34–7  
October 28, 1950 at Georgia Tech No. 4 Grant Field • Atlanta, GA W 28–14  
November 4, 1950 No. 17 Florida No. 5 McLean Stadium • Lexington, KY W 40–6  
November 11, 1950 at Mississippi State No. 4 Scott Field • Starkville, MS W 48–21  
November 18, 1950 North Dakota* No. 5 McLean Stadium • Lexington, KY W 83–0  
November 25, 1950 at No. 9 Tennessee No. 3 Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN (Rivalry) L 0–7  
January 1, 1951 vs. No. 1 Oklahoma* No. 7 Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, LA (Sugar Bowl) W 13–7  
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll.

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Team players in the NFL

Player Position Round Pick NFL Club
Bob Gain Tackle1 5 Green Bay Packers
Walt Yowarsky Tackle 3 29 Washington Redskins
Al Bruno End3 32 Philadelphia Eagles
Bob Hope Tackle11 130 Philadelphia Eagles
Bill Leskovar Back14 163 Chicago Cardinals
Clay Webb Back15 176 Pittsburgh Steelers
Bill Wanamaker Guard15 179 New York Yanks
Dom Fucci Back18 210 Washington Redskins
Dick Martin Back28 331 Chicago Cardinals

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Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ncaa.com/history/football/fbs
  2. ↑ http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/national_championships/nchamps_year.php
  3. ↑ 1997 Kentucky Wildcats Football Media Guide
  4. ↑ "Kentucky in the 1950 AP polls at AP Poll Archive". Archived from the original on 2009-10-05. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
  5. ↑ http://www.pro-football-reference.com/draft/1951.htm
  6. ↑ http://football.about.com/cs/history/a/outlandtrophy.htm
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