Houston Hogg, a former Daviess County High School football player who helped desegregate football at the University of Kentucky died Thursday. He was 71.
Hogg was a native of Hazard, Ky., but finished his high school career at DCHS.
In 1967, Houston Hogg joined three other men in Lexington to become the first black athletes in the SEC playing for the Wildcats.
Hogg along with the other black players at UK, Greg Page, Nate Northington and Wilbur Hackett are memorialized with a statue, erected in 2016, that stands outside of the Joe Craft Football Training Facility, adjacent to Kroger Field in Lexington. Their trail-blazing story was chronicled in a documentary, “Black in Blue,” released last February.
In 2018, Hogg was recognized at Friday After 5 for being inducted into the Owensboro Walk of Fame.
Hogg’s Walk of Fame plaque is placed near the judicial center on the south side of 2nd Street, joining 11 other plaques in downtown Owensboro, forever cementing Houston Hogg as one of Owensboro’s most notable citizens.
