University of Kentucky head football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, left, with his first UK staff in spring 1946. From left, Bryant, Frank Moseley and Carney Laslie, all products of Alabama football; former Tennessee end Mike Balitsaris; and former Vanderbilt guard and team captain Joe Atkinson. The caption published in the Leader on April 16, 1946, said, “This is the first photograph of the complete lineup of the Wildcats’ new pigskin professors.”