One Old Dawg: One Old Dawg is Coming Back

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

One Old Dawg is Coming Back

Jerry Varnado at 2024 kickoff Touchdown Club, Photo Courtesy Barry Mobley

In the fall of 2014, 2015, and 2016, Jerry Varnado (along with his wife Beverly) wrote a fiftieth anniversary blog here about his years playing on Vince Dooley’s first three teams at the University of Georgia in 1964, 1965, and 1966. Here as we approach the sixtieth anniversary of the 1964 team, we are coming back with One Old Dawg and his mostly true Bulldog lore. But this time, we will have lots of Old Dawgs by interviewing some of the seniors on the 1964 team as well as a few others from those years. Sadly, several of the team members have passed, and we’ll be remembering them, too.

We’re calling this One Old Dawg’s Tailgate, so get your potato salad and hot wings ready, because we’re starting on August 28 with Fred Barber as told to his wife Julie Barber and we will continue throughout the season with a post every Wednesday.

Jerry Varnado will also be weighing in with his take on each game throughout the season.

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Well, it used to be that One Old Dawg would rather be flogged than blog, but gradually he's gotten used to the idea. One Old Dawg’s wife, Beverly Varnado, still helps him out. She’s not old. He married a MUCH younger woman. She thought somebody ought to get down these stories One Old Dawg has been telling for decades. And though she said she’d never do it, she’s become his administrative assistant following him around with a notepad and recorder. One Old Dawg has always hoped this would happen. ~sigh~ She’s also plundering a cardboard box of memorabilia his mama saved and taking out straight pins that have held newspaper clippings together for fifty years. Thank you Mama Varnado for such a wealth of material. You can also catch Beverly on her personal blog, One Ringing Bell, her website http://www.beverlyvarnado.com/, or pick up one of her books, Home to Currahee, or Give My Love to the Chestnut Trees.