The largest state sports hall of fame in the country is here in Georgia. The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame began in 1956, when the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association established the Georgia Prep Sports Hall of Fame, which honored high school administrators, coaches and players. The organization dropped the word “prep” in 1963, honoring collegiate […]

Learn More – Wally Butts James Kirby, Fumble: Bear Bryant, Wally Butts, and the Great College Football Scandal (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986). Ed Thilenius and Jim Koger, No Ifs, No Ands, a Lot of Butts: Twenty-one Years of Georgia Football (Atlanta: n.p., 1960). “Wally Butts (1905-1973).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-729&sug=y Georgia Bulldogs Former […]