1950 Kentucky Wildcats football team

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, declaring them national champions.

1950 Kentucky Wildcats football
National champion (Sagarin)
SEC champion
Sugar Bowl champion
Sugar Bowl, W 13–7 vs. Oklahoma
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 7
APNo. 7
1950 record11–1 (5–1 SEC)
Head coach
Home stadiumStoll Field/McLean Stadium
1950 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 7 Kentucky $ 5 1 0  11 1 0
No. 4 Tennessee 4 1 0  11 1 0
No. 16 Alabama 6 2 0  9 2 0
No. 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 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

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendance
September 16North Texas State*No. 13W 25–0
September 23LSUNo. 13
  • McLean Stadium
  • Lexington, KY
W 14–0
September 30Ole MissNo. 13
  • McLean Stadium
  • Lexington, KY
W 27–0
October 7Dayton*No. 6
  • McLean Stadium
  • Lexington, KY
W 40–0
October 14Cincinnati*No. 5
  • McLean Stadium
  • Lexington, KY
W 41–7
October 21at Villanova*No. 4W 34–7
October 28at Georgia TechNo. 4W 28–1435,000
November 4No. 17 FloridaNo. 5
  • McLean Stadium
  • Lexington, KY
W 40–6
November 11at Mississippi StateNo. 4W 48–21
November 18North Dakota*No. 5
  • McLean Stadium
  • Lexington, KY
W 83–0
November 25at No. 9 TennesseeNo. 3L 0–7
January 1vs. No. 1 Oklahoma*No. 7W 13–780,206
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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1951 NFL Draft

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL Club
Bob GainTackle15Green Bay Packers
Walt YowarskyTackle329Washington Redskins
Al BrunoEnd332Philadelphia Eagles
Bob HopeTackle11130Philadelphia Eagles
Bill LeskovarBack14163Chicago Cardinals
Clay WebbBack15176Pittsburgh Steelers
Bill WanamakerGuard15179New York Yanks
Dom FucciBack18210Washington Redskins
Dick MartinBack28331Chicago Cardinals

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Awards and honors

References

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