Former Kentucky football player Darryl Bishop has died, the school announced via Twitter on Thursday morning.
Bishop, born in 1950, also played a few games as a walk-on for the Kentucky basketball team before withdrawing from the team and focusing on football. Bishop was the first African American to play for the Kentucky basketball team. In football, Bishop played for the Wildcats’ freshman team in 1969 and then the varsity team from 1971-73. Bishop holds the record for the most pass interceptions in a career (14) and return yardage (376). Bishop also had 348 tackles in his career, which is the most of any defensive back in Kentucky history.
During the three years that Bishop played for the Kentucky varsity football team, the Wildcats did not have much success as a team. Kentucky went 3-8 in each of Bishop’s first two seasons on the varsity team and then it went 5-6 during his final year. Bishop played for both John Ray and Fran Curci during his time on the varsity team.
Bishop’s history in fighting discrimination no doubt stands out in Kentucky history but it also lives on in his son. Darryl Cato-Bishop played for NC State in college and then bounced around the Arena Football League. While playing for the Orlando Predators in 2016, Cato-Bishop shared what his father’s legacy meant to him and how it inspired him in his career.
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“If you really want something bad enough, you stay on the grind,” Cato-Bishop said back in 2016, according to an article in the Orlando Sentinel. “If things come between that, trials and tribulations, you fight through that. You are the person that you want to be. You can’t be me. You have to be yourself.”
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