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The study was conducted in university of Port Harcourt. It investigated the safety knowledge and practice of members of Team Uniport. The study employed the descriptive research design and the population was one hundred and thirty (130) which was made up of twenty three officials and one hundred and seventeen (117) athletes. The entire population was used as sample size for the study. The instrument for the study was a self- developed and structured questionnaire. The instrument was pretested and validated. A reliability coefficient of 0.75 was established through the use of Pearson Product – Moment Correlation coefficient. One hundred and thirty (130) copies of the instrument was distributed and the study had a return rate of 96.9% (126) copies out of which 92.3% (120) copies were filled well and used for the analysis. Frequency counts and percentage were used to analyse the data generated while chi-square was used to test the hypotheses at .05 alpha level. The bench-mark for taking decision was 50%. The finding of the study revealed that members of Team Uniport possess high knowledge and practice of safety. Based on the findings, the study recommended among others that the university authority should organised more safety courses for members of Team Uniport and accidents involving members of Team Uniport should be reported and thoroughly investigated.