The Ghosts of Herty Field
Early Days on a Southern Gridiron
Title Details
Pages: 176
Illustrations: 16 b&w photos
Trim size: 5.500in x 8.500in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 09/01/1997
ISBN: 9-780-8203-1959-9
List Price: $22.95
Related Subjects
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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• Learn more about University of Georgia football at the New Georgia Encyclopedia
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Everyone knows about Herschel Walker, but what about George Woodruff, who, in a fogbound game against Sewanee, passed his helmet into their secondary and then handed the ball off to Hafford Hay, who ran untouched into the endzone? Athens is famed for its postgame victory parties, but who can recall the mountainous bonfire in 1910 that, when ignited, blew out every windowpane in three nearby campus buildings? Herty Field, the University of Georgia's first gridiron, is now a parking lot, but the glory lives on in this classic, fast-paced chronicle of Bulldogs' football from 1891 to 1916.
It was this book that served me so well as a young coach seeking to learn and appreciate the great history and heritage of Georgia football.
—Vince Dooley