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Lou Dampier, Guard :...................................._______....._...............Kentucky-Bill Justus, Guard.................______....................................._.......Tennessee
Dan Issel, Center............................................................................Kentucky
Mike Pratt, Forward ......_............................................... Kentucky
Mike Casey. Guard ........................................................................Kentucky
Bob Guyette, Forward .................................................................. Kentucky
Jimmy Dan Conner. Guard ....................................................... Kentucky
Jeff Fosnes, Forward .................................................................. Vanderbilt
Dave Shepherd. Guard ................................................................ Mississippi
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Jim Caldwell, Center ...................................................Georgia Tech
Larry Conley, Forward ..............................................._..............JKentucky
Jim Youngblood, Forward..................................._.........................Georgia
Andy Owens, Forward .................................................................. Florida
Tom Parker. Forward ..................................................................Kentucky
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It's Been A Long Wait For Robert Lutes'Family
By Mark Bradley
If anyone connected with University of Kentucky sports deserved a bowl bid, it was the long-suffering UK football fans. The players? Well, they were only here for four years at a time, and besides, they could always take out their frustrations by belting somebody out on the football field.
And the coaches? Lord knows they've agonized over the years, but none of them had been here longer than seven years since UK last went to a bowl.
No, the people who really lived and died with the fortunes of the Wildcat gridders were the fans who have been waiting 20-some years to go to a bowl.
Such a fan is Robert Lutes. He's been following the Cats since 1956. and in that twenty-year span, Lutes said, "I haven't missed a UK home football game, and I haven't missed very many road games, either."
According to Lutes, he had always been interested in UK sports, but he really got involved with the Wildcats when he and his wife moved to Kentucky from Ohio twenty years ago. Since then, said Lutes, "We've followed UK, in both football and basketball, religiously."
Lutes, who formerly was the proprietor of a Lexington motel but is now retired said that his primary way of transportation to Kentucky's away games is his Winnebago mobile home. "We've been traveling in the Winnebago for the last three years,'' he said.
"All the people at away from home games have been real nice to us," Lutes continued. "We've always been able to park our mobile home either in the stadium lot or very close to the stadium."
The Winnebago has not always transported Lutes to UK games. "We used to fly with basketball team back in the early sixties," he said, "when they had that small 40-seat charter and they could make room for us. We also flew to a couple of games with the football team when Charley Bradshaw was the coach.
Of course, Lutes and his Winnebago will make the trek to Atlanta for the Peach Bowl. "We'll be leaving on the evening of the 29th and get there on
the 30th. We're going to go to the UK reception down there, and watch UK play Notre Dame in basketball on closed-circuit TV."
Over the years, Lutes has experienced several big thrills watching Kentucky play.
Three of the biggest, he said, were the trips the Wildcats have made to the NCAA Final Four, in 1958 at Louisville, in 1966 at College Park, Md., and in 1975 at San Diego. Each time, Lutes was there.
"Winning the NCAA in 1958 was very exciting," Lutes said. "And, of course, the victory over Indiana in the Mideast Regional two years ago would probably be one of the greatest thrills, because I had seen the game earlier in the year at Indiana when they beat us so badly.
"Another great moment was in 1963 when we beat Duke in the finals of the Sugar Bowl Classic in New Orleans. Duke was really good that year, and they had Jeff Mullins from Lexington. Mullins really wanted to beat Kentucky and the UK boys really wanted to beat Mullins," Lutes recalled.
Since Fran Curci became UK's head football coach, Lutes said, "UK has been in every ball game, except the one last year in Florida which luckily I didn't see. I said when Curci came here that UK was going to play interesting football under him, and going to a UK game wouldn't just be something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
Certainly, Kentucky has played "interesting" football this year, interesting enough to compile a 7-4 season, including a victory over arch-rival Tennessee. "That was great, beating Tennessee. I'm always glad to beat them, and this year it meant a bowl bid," Lutes said.
The Peach Bowl will be the first bowl game Lutes has seen involving Kentucky, because "the last bowl UK played in was 25 years ago, before we even moved to Lexington," he said.
And, as one of those long-suffering Kentucky fans, Lutes has every right to say, "I'm very excited about the Peach Bowl, and I just hope we can beat North Carolina."
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