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Top Row Dawg · (This post was last modified: 12-03-2024, 02:08 AM by Top Row Dawg.)

With Love for Uncle John Always!

Woof™..........

Athens, Ga. - After 42 years working in the UGA athletic department, Dave Williams has retired. He was a young batboy at Georgia baseball games in the 1960s and later led Foley Field in singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in the 2000s. Prior to the Georgia football game against Georgia Tech last Friday night, Williams, a former Georgia scout and JV team quarterback and most recently the Associate Director of Event and Facility Operations, was recognized on the field for his decades of service to the athletic department and UGA. Williams' father, Nate, played baseball and basketball for Georgia in the early 1950s. A good all-around athlete growing up, Williams was the quarterback on Clarke Central High School's 1977 state championship-winning football team (Hey, my Tucker Tigers beat this team), playing for legendary coach Billy Henderson, a standout Georgia football and baseball player in the late '40s.

After graduating from Georgia in 1982, Williams started working for the Georgia Bulldog Club. Williams shared an office in Stegeman Coliseum with the two people who have known more about the Bulldogs than anyone, Dan Magill and Loran Smith. In his time with the Bulldog Club, Williams worked on the football game programs and was a production assistant for Vince Dooley's television show. He later was the assistant ticket manager for more than a decade, followed by stints on campus as the Director of Public Relations for the College of Pharmacy and as Assistant Director of UGA Alumni Relations. Starting around 2000, Williams became part of the gameday festivities at Foley Field by singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch. Williams may now be retired, but he'll still be around and working from time to time. He will continue to help out at home football games and other big events here and there in the years to come.