Legends

  Jack Carlisle Fligg had many honors during his 60-year football coaching career, but none compare to the one he received last May when some 30 of his former Grady High School players paid him a surprise visit and brought…

  Sandy Koufax and Bobby Hendley – two peas in a pod. They pitched against each other in one of the great duels in the modern history of major league baseball. Hendley had beaten Koufax once, but this was to…

  Barbara Dooley for president. “President of what?” you ask. President of the United States. “What are her qualifications? She is no politician.” And that is one of her strong points, I say. She is also an achiever, a giver,…

  If an amateur golfer other than Bobby Jones ever owned the state of Georgia’s golf courses, it was Macon’s Arnold Sigfried Blum. Blum won tournaments at his home course at Macon’s Idle Hour Golf and Country Club and in…

When Len Hauss injured his knee at Jesup High School (now Wayne County High) some of his coaches said he would never make the varsity team. Make it? All he did as a senior fullback was gain 1,500-plus yards and…

  Take it from Billy Martin, the All-American Georgia Tech football player in the 1960s: You cannot play the game forever, so you had better pay as much attention in the classroom as you do on the gridiron. After stints…

  No trip to Tampa would be complete without a stop at the Smith Health Club, the oldest established health club in the United States. Harry Emerson Smith started his club and has owned and operated it since September of…

  The guard that nobody wanted became the guard that everyone wanted. College football scouts said that Maurice Herbert Furchgott, at 155 pounds, was too small to play major college football. The guard they all wanted was the other guard…