in your professional opinion, what was worst injury in annals of Georgia football

[wayxpython]

The DJ injury of '05......cost Dogs turds' game when JTIII started.


Herschel's broken thumb of '82?  In the end, didn't cost Dogs nothing.


Bowers injury against Vanderbilt?  Mythical national title went down the proverbial drain that fateful day.

[viper2369]

Was at that 2005 game.  Pissed me off.  They scored on their first 2 drives, defense was sleep walking, and then hunkered down.  We lost 14-10.

[McDonoughDawg]

Excellent point on Bowers, he wasn't the same the rest of the year.

[FeralDawg]

Excellent point on Bowers, he wasn't the same the rest of the year.
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I would have bigly enjoyed the Back to Back to Back MNC

[ugafan49]

Agree- Brock Bowers.

[Zolotisty]

Yep, entire O went through Bowers. Coupled with Ladd being out the O was crippled. 

The only receiver that we had that could get reliable separation, when they were down, was AS11. But, his hands were unreliable, Gerald Tinkeresque , if you will.

They say Coley and Bobo been working AS11's a$$ off and helping him learn to catch. Guess they got the old tennis ball machine out of storage. Hope it works.

[Top Row Dawg]

Richard Von Albade Gammon was the only University of Georgia football to die after injuries sustained in a collegiate football game. Gammon was born December 4, 1879 in Rome, Georgia. He grew up on downtown Rome's 3rd Avenue and was a very talented athlete. Rome has a memorial to him on the sidewalk downtown.



Gammon attended the University of Georgia and played football on the 1896 and 1897 teams under Glenn "Pop" Warner and Charles McCarthy. In 1897, they played their first two games against Clemson and Georgia Tech.



On October 30, 1897, UGA played the University of Virginia at Brisbane Park in Atlanta, Georgia. The two teams the year before were the two most vocal claimants to a Southern football title. Early in the second half Von Gammon was on defense, and dove into the mass around Virginia's right tackle. Once the pile-up cleared, he lay there motionless. Two doctors in the stands came to his aid and determined he had a severe concussion. He was on his feet in a few minutes, however, and was being taken off the field by Coach McCarthy, when captain and later judge William B. Kent, not realizing how badly he was hurt, said to him:

"Von, you are not going to give up are you?"

"No Bill," he replied, "I've got too much Georgia grit for that.

Those were the last words he ever spoke. Upon reaching the sideline he lapsed into unconsciousness. They rushed him to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Gammon died in the early morning hours of October 31, 1897. The funeral was held at First Presbyterian Church in Rome, Georgia. News spread of Von Gammon's death and the people were devastated as were the Virginia players.



The Georgia Legislature was in session at the time and public opinion caused them to pass a bill to ban the sport of football in the state of Georgia. The bill would end the football programs of Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Mercer. The bill only needed the signature of Governor William Yates Atkinson to become a law.


It took me forever to find this grave in Myrtle Hill.

His mother, Rosalind Burns Gammon, wrote a letter to her representative which later was in the hands of the governor. She was saddened by her son's death, but did not want the sport outlawed. She mentioned in her letter how his two friends were killed in rock climbing and skating accidents, and how those sports were not banned. Gov. Atkinson vetoed the bill on December 7, 1897. His mother is known as the woman who saved college football in Georgia.



The University of Virginia team presented a plaque to the University of Georgia in honor of Von Gammon and his mother. Less than three years after Von's death his brother Will died when he fell under a train following a baseball game in Cartersville, Georgia.

[dncdawg]

Bowers is #1 for me.

#2 was Robert Edwards breaking his foot in 1995 at Tennessee.

Hopes were high after he ran all over South Carolina in the season opener. We may not have beaten Alabama that year, but probably wouldn't have been shut out. Ended up 6-6 that year and lost to Virginia in the damn Peach Bowl.

[RockmartDawg]

I don't think we were in the upper echelon of college football when this injury happened. But it was the first of MANY devastating injuries that took down what was looking to actually be a good football team.

[DawgNatty]

I don’t know if it’s the “biggest injury” but, it sure would have been interesting to see what more Herschel would have done without that shoulder injury. Changed his game that season and for a long time after.

[Concourse E]

Tennessee finished #3 in the AP poll, and playing them at their place they beat us by a field goal.  They couldn't stop Robert Edwards even when he was hurt.  I'd say we were elite.  Its a shame, Goff did work his butt off for that season and we were absolutely devastated by injuries to Edwards and Bobo among others.  

Florida probably still cleans our clock that year in all honesty, but who knows.

The Bowers injury - maybe not even the Vandy one but the intentional Tennessee aggrevation, most likely did cost us the NC.  I would say that is the biggest, followed by Edwards, then DJ Shockenheimer.

[RockmartDawg]

Tennessee finished #3 in the AP poll, and playing them at their place they beat us by a field goal.  They couldn't stop Robert Edwards even when he was hurt.  I'd say we were elite.  Its a shame, Goff did work his butt off for that season and we were absolutely devastated by injuries to Edwards and Bobo among others.  

Florida probably still cleans our clock that year in all honesty, but who knows.

The Bowers injury - maybe not even the Vandy one but the intentional Tennessee aggrevation, most likely did cost us the NC.  I would say that is the biggest, followed by Edwards, then DJ Shockenheimer.
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Dawgs were outright dominating Tennessee before Edwards got hurt. Even with his injury, an untimely dropped pass that would have given us a first down and extended our drive, and eating time off of the clock near the end of the game, made a huge difference.

Yes, Goff got what has to be the worst luck I have ever seen from all that occurred that 1995 season. I am reluctant to fully trust my memory anymore. But I want to say that even before the season began we lost 9 starters on defense, all from a range of reasons, from injury, to academic casualty (these were the Jan Kemp years), to someone just up and quitting football altogether and going back home. They had taken Edwards from the secondary and moved him to tailback, and what an explosive tailback he was. And, yes, as you said... we lost our starting QB, Mike Bobo to a season-ending injury not too long after Edwards was out for the year. Then Bobo's backup, Brian Smith, got hurt and he was out until the very end of the year. By that time the team was settled in with Hines Ward at QB, even though Ward himself was limping around.

Still to this day I have never seen a team get literally wiped out by injuries and such like that 1995 UGA team did. The salt in the wound was the way the Peach Bowl ended.

[samjo]

You sir, are the best historian I've ever seen.

I had never heard the Gammon story.

Great Job.