Only a few days after the late Ray Graves was memorialized at a service at the Touchdown Terrace at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, one of “his boys” from the Silver Sixties died.
Two-way player Dick Kirk, who had one of the most memorable touchdown runs in school history, died last Tuesday at his home in Fort Lauderdale. He was 72.
A three-year letterwinner (1963-65), Kirk will always have a place in UF lore thanks to his 42-yard touchdown run at Alabama in 1963 that sparked the Gators’ to a 10-6 upset win over the heavily favored Tide and quarterback Joe Namath.