University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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The Goat n In the last 100 years of intercollegiate football, there may be no college mascot in the country that is more well known than the University of Georgia ' s Uga, a line owned since 1956 by the Frank W. (Sonny) Seller family of Savannah, Ga. However, UGA ' s mascot was not always the Bulldog. Georgia ' s first mascot for its football game against Auburn, February 22, 1892 in Atlanta, Georgia, was the goat. Old newspaper clippings say the goat wore a black coat with red U. G. letters on each side. He also had on a hat with ribbons down his high horns, and the Auburn fans yelled throughout the game, shoot the billy-goat. Two years later, in 1894, the Bulldogs ' mascot was a solid white female bull terrier owned by a student, the late Charles Black, Sr., of Atlanta. 6 Opening

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Dr. Michael F. Adams was named the twenty-first President of The University of Georgia by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia on June 1 1 , 1997 Dr. Adams has become an increasingly recognized national leader in higher education during his past eighteen years of senior administrative leadership. Adams joined Georgia ' s faculty as a professor of speech communication in the fall of 1997. He is also currently chair of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and just recently completed a term as chair of the Associated Colleges of the South. During his short time at the University of Georgia, President Adams has effected many changes, most noticable, . perhaps being the relandscaping of the campus. Opening 5

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UGA VI Many old-timers say Georgia acquired the nickname, Bulldogs, because of the strong ties with Yale whose nickname is Bulldogs. Georgia ' s first president, Abraham Baldwin, was a Yale man and the early buildings on campus were designed from blue prints of the same building at Yale. But on Nov. 3, 1920, Morgan Blake of the Atlanta Journal wrote about school nicknames and said The Georgia ' Bulldogs ' would sound good because there is a certain dignity about a bulldog, as well as ferocity. After a 0-0 tie with Virginia in Charlottesville on Nov. 6, 1 920, Atlanta Constitution writer Cliff Wheatley used the name Bulldogs in his story five times. The name has been used ever since. Opening 7