The Matt Jones Podcast E50: SEC Integration with Nate Northington & Wilbur Hackett

The Matt Jones Podcast

Matt Jones

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2.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The Golden Anniversary of the podcast celebrates one of Kentucky football's greatest accomplishments. Two of the four Kentucky Wildcats that helped integrate the SEC, Nate Worthington and Wilbur Hackett, join the podcast to discuss their journey. Before they're immortalized with statues in front of Commonwealth Stadium, hear their story. Highlights: -- How the Governor convinced Northington to come to Kentucky. -- Were there African-American UK fans in Louisville in the 60s? -- How Northington handled Greg Page's tragic death. -- What it was like to travel to the South for SEC football games. You can have every podcast delivered straight to your phone by searching for “The Matt Jones Podcast” on iTunes and clicking “subscribe.” It doesn’t get much easier than that. If you aren’t an iTunes person, you can also stream every podcast on Podbay or check it out on the Stitcher app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was gambling in Havana.
0:10.0	I took a little risk.
0:17.0	Senn lawyers guns and money.
0:22.2	Dad, get me out of this. Welcome everyone to episode 50 of the Matt Jones podcast here in Louisville
0:27.7	Kentucky. We are it's you know kind of a sunny Monday been a pretty good day where you did the show earlier in Louisville
0:35.6	and now are here.
0:37.1	We want to, this is an episode that I'm extremely excited about.
0:41.0	Our good friend Freddie Maggert helped us get this set up and this is I think
0:46.0	going to be one of our more interesting and exciting ones we've done. So we have with us a couple of legends of history of UK football and SEC football
0:59.6	as well who've come to join us who are part of a big celebration coming up here in Kentucky that's very exciting.
1:08.0	But Nate Nortington and Wilbur Hackett are both going to be with us to talk about the integration
1:15.0	of UK football and the SEC which we're very very excited about. But before
1:20.0	we do that really quick I want to tell you this edition of the Matt Jones
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