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A fact from Red Bethea appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 November 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the American football players inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as "Gator Greats" include "All-American Waterboy" Tootie Perry, attorney Goldy Goldstein, and halfbacks Red Bethea and Larry Dupree?
I believe your best shot at finding Bethea's hometown/birth place would be his senior entry in the University of Florida's Seminole yearbook for his senior year. I don't have an Ancestry.com subscription, but I believe they provide online digital images of the entire yearbooks by school year. I know Cbl62 has a subscription, but he's been a bit of a ghost for the last month or so; he'll turn up again soon, I'm sure. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:27, 25 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, the family was from the small towns of Trenton and Bell just outside of Gainesville, Fla. The Bethea family migrated from S.C. right after the Civil War ended; the newspaper article that claimed Bethea was the son of a Georgia farmer is not accurate. Twalls (talk)
