Longtime Georgia football coach Vince Dooley, who led the Bulldogs to 1980 national title, has died at age 90.
When the University of Georgia went searching for a head football coach in the early 1960s, the Alabama-born Dooley was an unlikely choice.
“I was 31 years old, a freshman coach at a rival school. As an administrator, there’s no way I would have hired myself under those conditions,” Dooley told the UGA Oral History Collection.
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