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re: Ole miss will all wear 38 on the helmets Saturday
Posted on 9/26/14 at 5:36 pm to DCRebel
Posted on 9/26/14 at 5:36 pm to DCRebel
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Also, I don't think any other SEC school has had a story like this, where someone was completely paralyzed from the neck down after an injury and died as a result.
Kentucky's Greg Page. He would've broken the color barrier in the SEC along with Nat Northington had he not gotten injured in practice the week before. FWIW, there are apartments on campus named after him. I'd like to see the upcoming football complex named after him if possible.
Kentucky is actually honoring him after the game tomorrow (along with three other UK players who were among the first black players in the SEC).
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Posted on 9/26/14 at 6:15 pm to BluegrassBelle
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Kentucky's Greg Page. He would've broken the color barrier in the SEC along with Nat Northington had he not gotten injured in practice the week before. FWIW, there are apartments on campus named after him. I'd like to see the upcoming football complex named after him if possible.
Kentucky is actually honoring him after the game tomorrow (along with three other UK players who were among the first black players in the SEC).
Very neat story.
Posted on 9/26/14 at 8:01 pm to BluegrassBelle
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Kentucky's Greg Page. He would've broken the color barrier in the SEC along with Nat Northington had he not gotten injured in practice the week before. FWIW, there are apartments on campus named after him. I'd like to see the upcoming football complex named after him if possible.
Kentucky is actually honoring him after the game tomorrow (along with three other UK players who were among the first black players in the SEC).
Yup. Page was from Middlesboro and after what happened Tennessee and UK played a basketball game at the High School there in order to fundraise for him and his family so they could pay for health care. Unfortunately, Page didn't make it.
It's past time for him to get more recognition. UK, UT, and Vandy all broke the color line rather quietly with various players but those players - some of them very, very good (Jackie Walker for example) - have been forgotten about and it's a damn shame. I guess being in the Upper South and not having near the controversy Deep South teams faced with regard to color kind of led to these trailblazers being forgotten.
UK's Greg Page deserves to be recognized so does UT's Walker along with others.
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