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October 30, 1897

Von Gammon

Can you imagine Saturday afternoons in autumn without college football in Georgia? It almost happened. On this day in 1897, UGA player Richard Von Gammon was fatally injured in a game with the University of Virginia. There had been a nationwide call for a ban on the violent sport, and Von Gammon’s death galvanized football’s […]

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Surviving members of the University of Virginia football team presented a plaque to the University of Georgia in honor of Von Gammon and his mother in 1921.