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1. www.redandblack.com › sports › behind-the-hedges-aBehind the hedges: A history of Sanford Stadium’s greenery

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   Aug 27, 2024 · The hedges were replanted with the same lineage in time for the 2024 G-Day game. Named after Dr. Steadman Vincent Sanford, a pivotal figure in Bulldog athletics, Sanford Stadium’s roots trace ...

2. flagpole.com › news › commentThe Story Behind Sanford Stadium's Iconic Hedges - Flagpole

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   Aug 30, 2023 · With the help of their mothers, Catherine Hardman and Rebecca Farmer, Lamartine G. “Lam” Hardman V, Henri Leon “Beau” Farmer IV and I took a trip to Sanford Stadium to touch the hedges. That was in 2013. Lam was 7, and Beau was 9. For 50 minutes, between the hedges, I was younger than 10, too. The three of us imagined the roar of 95,000.

3. alumni.uga.edu › 2024/03/20 › about-behind-andAbout, Behind and Between the Hedges - UGA Alumni

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   Mar 20, 2024 · The hedges’ storied history began in 1926 at the Rose Bowl, when a UGA Athletic Department employee noticed the red rosebushes surrounding the field. Meanwhile, back in Athens, UGA’s president at the time, Steadman V. Sanford, had started construction on what he hoped would become the best college football stadium in the South.

4. www.thepress-sentinel.com › heres-how-sanfordHere’s how Sanford Stadium got its fabled hedges | Jesup ...

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   Aug 15, 2023 · Circumstances got more complicated when an Atlanta donor called with a gift of privet Ligustrum—hedges to ring the stadium’s field. That’s when President Sanford hit upon a scheme that might not invoke the governor’s ire. He involved the governor’s son, Lamartine Griffin Hardman Jr., who was a UGA student. And since the university’s ...

5. www.espn.com › college-football › newsLukacs: Tracing the history of the hedges at Georgia's ... - ESPN

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   Oct 12, 2009 · The date was Oct. 12, 1929, a momentous occasion on which the most famous flora in football, if not all of sports -- the distinctive privet hedges ringing the field at Georgia's Sanford Stadium ...

6. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com › story › sportsWhat is 'between the hedges?' Explaining Georgia football ...

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   Oct 5, 2024 · Between the hedges is a phrase used by Georgia fans to refer to the field at Sanford Stadium, as the Bulldogs' playing surface is surrounded by grass hedges. The shrubbery – Chinese privet ...

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   Why are there hedges around Sanford Stadium?

   • Covering about 5,000 square feet around the playing field, the hedges take up a significant amount of sideline. This became an issue when Sanford Stadium was used to host soccer games for the 1996 Olympic Games held in Atlanta.

   About, Behind and Between the Hedges - UGA Alumni

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   Are there bushes at the University of Georgia's Sanford Stadium?

   • As generations of Bulldogs would tell you, there’s no line of shrubbery as iconic to sports as the hedges of the University of Georgia’s Sanford Stadium. The Chinese privet bushes – Ligustrum sinense, taxonomically speaking – that frame Dooley Field have seen every Georgia home game since 1929.

   About, Behind and Between the Hedges - UGA Alumni

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   Will hedges be replanted for g-day 2024?

   • The hedges will be replanted with plants of the same lineage in time for the 2024 G-Day game. The hedges’ storied history began in 1926 at the Rose Bowl, when a UGA Athletic Department employee noticed the red rosebushes surrounding the field.

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   Why are hedges numbered?

   • Each bush was numbered so it could be replanted exactly where it had been dug up. Five feet tall and five feet wide, the hedges – and the chain-link fence they conceal – have also served to protect the safety of fans, athletes and coaches over the years.

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8. news.uga.edu › between-the-hedges-and-between-theBetween the hedges and between the genomes - news.uga.edu

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   Nov 1, 2024 · Leebens-Mack and Edison’s students confirmed that today’s hedges are from the same stock as their predecessors with nearly identical genomes. That’s not to say that there isn’t some minor variation among the plants growing in the stadium. “This work on the Sanford Stadium hedges is helping us understand their history while filling in ...