Football Wildcats Who Didn't Play Listed
PAGE 19   THE CATS'  PAUSE, DECEMBER 3, 1977
Many Kentucky fans have been asking for a list of red-shirts from the 1977 football Wildcats. That list isn't available yet, but from our charts, the following players did not play this past season: Tim Fausel, Terry Curry, Leon Shadowen and Kenny Roark, all offensive linemen; linebackers Chuck Jones and Lester Boyd; defensive tackles Bob Winkel, Tim Gooch and Rollie Skur and backs Rod Stewart and James Lokesak.
Stewart and Gooch did play but were injured and received another year's eligibility from the SEC office. Not all of those players were seniors, but they missed the season, either due to injury or held out or some other reason. That means all will have an extra year of eligibility. Freddie Williams, who was listed as a senior in the program, has another year of eligibility remaining because he was red-shirted one year earlier.
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Reggie Warford is a young man who played a very important role in Kentucky's stretch drive during the 1975-76 season when the Wildcats rallied to win the National Invitational Tournament at Madison Square Garden.
Warford was especially brilliant in the four-game NIT as the Wildcats were forced to win without one of their aces, Rick Robey, who was sidelined midway during the season.
The sharp-shooting southpaw from Drakesboro, Kentucky, didn't see a great deal of playing time until his senior year, but he made up for loss
time in a hurry. He also became famous for his singing and guitar playing during his stay at UK.
After graduating from UK in 1976, Reggie became an assistant under Lynn Nance who left an assistant's post at UK to become head boss of the Cyclones in the Big Eight Conference.
During his three-year stay, War-ford's teams compiled a 59-28 record for Big Blue fans and Reggie was one of a privileged few to play in the final Kentucky game every staged at the famed Memorial Coliseum on March 8, 1976, when the Wildcats defeated Mississippi State 94-93 in overtime.
William B. Sturgill is a name which is very familiar around the University of Kentucky scene in Lexington, but few of the younger generation realize he was a member of the famous Kentucky basketball team which won the 1946 NIT championship.
Sturgill, who hails from Eastern Kentucky, lettered in both 1945 and 1946 at UK. While a member of the team his last two years, Kentucky compiled a record of 50-6. In 1945, the Wildcats lost out to Ohio State in the NCAA in New York 45-36 but defeated Tuffs 66-56 in the consolation battle.
After college, Sturgill returned to Eastern Kentucky and later got into the coal business and became one of the industry's leading spokesman. He and the late Richard Kelly became partners in one of the largest coal firms   in   the   state.   In   the early
seventies, the two sold out to Falcon Seaboard, Inc, a huge corporation with extensive oil holdings. It was described at the time as one of the largest business transactions in the coal industry at the time.
Sturgill lived in Hazard during the years he built his business empire and became prominent in education projects, including one which resulted in the establishment of the Hazard Community College. He was later named to the board of trustees at the University of Kentucky where he is currently chairman of the board.
He is the first alumnu of UK, other than a governor, to hold that title at UK. Sturgill and his family now make Lexington their home although he has business interests in Eastern Kentucky.
Danny Hall is one of those big guys who would be shooting for a national championship this winter had he chosen to stay at the University of Kentucky. He didn't and he is now a junior at Marshall University.
Hall came to UK at the same time as Rick Robey and Mike Phillips three years ago and the trio formed the most fearsome trio in the nation that year, playing on a team which finished second in the nation only to champion UCLA.
Then early his sophomore season, Danny left Kentucky and enrolled at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, to continue his basketball career.
Ironically, Hall is now coached by a man who was part of a bitter enemy at one time. His new coach? None other than former Tennessee Vol assistant Stu Aberdeen.
Danny came from the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, having played for little Betsy Layne High School. He was a star-to-be almost from day one. His sensational play during his sophomore year in high school had college coaches foaming at the mouth.
Hall had several memorable plays for the Big Blue and Wildcat fans were saddened when the big 6-10 center wanted more playing time and decided to leaving the Lexington campus for more time at another school.