Flashback: The legacy is immortalized…Dooley Field

Jeff DantzlerDooley Field at Sanford Stadium has a great ring to the ears of the Georgia faithful. That sacred sod between the famed hedges will now bear the name of the greatest head football coach and athletic director in Bulldog lore.

When Joel Eaves was hired as the athletic director at Georgia on November 22, 1963 – not exactly an insignificant date – his top priority was to find a new football coach to turn around a program that had taken a severe downturn since the glory days of Wallace Butts, Frank Sinkwich, Charley Trippi and Johnny Rauch of the 1940s.

Though the decade of the 1950s concluded with the Bulldogs winning the 1959 Southeastern Championship, it was a turbulent time that…