Locals view history with UGA athletics exhibit at Dalton-Whitfield library

May 26—Steed Hill pointed to a collection of University of Georgia coins from the 1970s and ’80s that list the Bulldogs’ football schedules.

“I’ve got these same ones,” Hill, who graduated from UGA’s pharmacy school in 1966 and was a pharmacist in Dalton for 48 years before retiring, said. “It brings me back.”

The coins along with numerous other pieces of Georgia Bulldogs memorabilia were on display inside the Dalton-Whitfield County Public Library Tuesday, May 21, as part of the university’s Athletics in Your Town tour, which travels across the state and showcases important artifacts from the institution’s history in athletics.

“It’s a one-day exhibit,” said UGA Athletics History Specialist Jason Hasty, who has been a part of the tour since its inception seven years ago. “We were in Cedartown yesterday and we’ll have six more stops this summer. This is actually our first time in Northwest Georgia, so I’m very glad to be here.”

The library hosted around 60 artifacts ranging from the 1910s to modern day.

“All the artifacts are from the UGA Athletic Association archives, which is held in the Hargrett Library at UGA,” Hasty said. “That archive is publicly accessible and anybody can come in and see it, but I like to bring things out and take them around the state and kind of connect with communities.”

Among the items on display were two tickets from the first football game played at UGA’s Sanford Stadium as well as an old leather football helmet worn by Gene Ellenson in the early 1940s and a playbook from the 1950s.

“All of this is original material, no reproductions,” Hasty said. “We’ve got sheet music for the ‘Red and Black March,’ which was our first fight song in the 1910s and ’20s. It didn’t last very long.”

Also on display was an advertisement for a 1905 game between Georgia and Auburn University.

“I love that it says…

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Author : The Daily Citizen, Dalton, Ga.

Publish date : 2024-05-27 03:59:00

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