First Five Football Players Continue to Score for UGA

First Five Football Players Continue to Score for UGA

In 1971, the University of Georgia (UGA) signed its first five Black players to football scholarships. When Richard Appleby, Horace King, Chuck Kinnebrew, Clarence Pope, and Larry West inked their letters of intent to play for the Georgia Bulldogs, it made the perennial football power the last member of the Southeastern Conference to integrate.  All photos and video courtesy of Victoria Inman of VI Photography Now known as “The Bulldogs Original…