Nearly a half century ago, the Kentucky Wildcats made history by breaking the SEC’s color barrier and having the first African-American football players in the entire conference.
Now, those four players will be honored for what they did to change the face of the league:
Greg Page, Nate Northington, Wilbur Hackett and Houston Hogg will each be honored with the new statues that will be placed outside Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington.
Page and Northington were inducted into Kentucky’s Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday, and the university used a Hall of Fame dinner to announce the decision to construct statues in honor of the four players that opened doors at the program.