{"id":842,"date":"2010-09-08T20:40:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T20:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=842"},"modified":"2024-11-22T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:07:59","slug":"college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"College Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is that time of year again, and in the spirit of things we present a celebration of Georgia’s college football history (through the lens of the Digital Library of Georgia’s collections<\/a>, of course).<\/p>\n

Photograph<\/a> of a football team from Georgia Normal and Agricultural College between 1920 and 1925. The college is now known as Albany State University<\/a> and their Golden Rams football team continues to compete today. From the Vanishing Georgia Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Photograph<\/a><\/p>\n

Image<\/a> of Oglethorpe University’s<\/a> 1927 Varsity “Ends.” From left to right, “Monk” Clement, Roy Hancock, Darnell, and Jeff Burford. From the\u00a0 Oglethorpe University Library’s Athletics Photographs Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Image<\/a><\/p>\n

Photograph<\/a> of Sanford Stadium at the University of Georgia<\/a> in November 1962. When this photograph was taken, the stadium held 36,000 Georgia Bulldog fans. Today it has a capacity of over 92,000. From the Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Photograph<\/a>To find out more about the history of college football in Georgia, check out the New Georgia Encyclopedia<\/a> articles on John Heisman<\/a>, Georgia Southern Football<\/a>, Herschel Walker<\/a>, and the Chick-fil-A Bowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is that time of year again, and in the spirit of things we present a celebration of Georgia’s college football history (through the lens of the Digital Library of Georgia’s collections, of course). Photograph of a football team from Georgia Normal and Agricultural College between 1920 and 1925. The college is now known as … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “College Football”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[75,46,11,23,52,76,13,17],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dlg-collections","tag-albany-ga","tag-athens-ga","tag-atlanta-ga","tag-civil-rights-sunbelt-georgia-1945-1980s","tag-clarke-county-ga","tag-dougherty-county-ga","tag-fulton-county-ga","tag-progressive-era-to-world-war-ii-1900-1945"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9219,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/9219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}