WELCOME BACK TO ANCIENT TIMES:
1959-1975
The year: 1959. Ed Thilenius was
Georgia’s broadcaster;
Sanford Stadium had only one deck; Vince Dooley
was a y0ung assistant coach at Auburn, and he traveled
with his team to Athens for what has become one
of the most famous games in Georgia football history. After Dooley became Georgia’s head
coach, Georgia beat Bear Bryant’s National Championship Alabama team in 1965;
then, Georgia won SEC Championships in 1966 and 1968 (when the opening game in
Knoxville became the first college football game played on artificial turf and
featured a gift to Tennessee by the officials). The Hairy Dogs stunned Tennessee in Knoxville in
1973; and the Junkyard Dawgs end-arounded Florida in
Jacksonville in
1975, before returning to the top of the SEC in 1976. During this time, Thilenius was replaced at the WSB-WRFC microphone by one
Larry Munson, who celebrates forty years of broadcasting Georgia football
games this season (2006).
Here are some of the highlights of the early modern DAWG era; sorry about the sound quality on some of these (as
Thilenius said, “I don’t know if you could hear me or
not…”).
