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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 · Healthy cuttings were nurtured into full-grown hedges and returned to Sanford Stadium, where they were transplanted in a ceremony involving Dooley and other Georgia officials.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Sanford_StadiumSanford Stadium - Wikipedia

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   Sanford Stadium. Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium is the on-campus playing venue for football at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States (also known as UGA). The 93,033-seat stadium is the ninth-largest football stadium in the NCAA (and in the United States), and the 17th-largest such stadium in the world.

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

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   Mar 20, 2024 · The 1929 Georgia-Yale game was the first one played in newly dedicated Sanford Stadium. It was the largest athletic event ever held in the South at that time, with 30,000 fans and the governors of nine southern states in attendance – a fitting crowd for Georgia’s first victory Between the Hedges.

5. www.redandblack.com › sports › footballNew season, new stadium: An update on Sanford Stadium's ...

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   Aug 19, 2023 · Sanford Stadium is getting a full facelift for the 2023 season. In step one of a two-step, $68.5 million renovation plan, the UGA Athletic Association has completely renovated the south side of...

6. sports.yahoo.com › uga-prestigious-hedgesUGA’s prestigious hedges to be revitalized before spring game

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   Jan 27, 2024 · According to multiple reports, the University of Georgia is gearing up to breathe new life into the iconic hedges of Sanford Stadium this spring.

7. gardenandgun.com › articles › between-the-hedgesGo Between the Hedges - Garden & Gun

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   Aug 28, 2018 · And while a 5,000-square-foot rectangle that can be seen via satellite might seem a fairly permanent symbol of strength and durability, the hedges have been completely removed from Sanford Stadium not once, but twice in their eighty-nine-year history.

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   Why are there hedges around Sanford Stadium?

   • There is no place in the world precisely like the grass that grows between the hedges in Athens, Georgia. Sanford Stadium's hedges have encircled the field since the stadium's first game against Yale in 1929. The idea to put hedges around the field came from the Business Manager of the UGA Athletic Department, Charlie Martin.

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   Will Sanford Stadium get a full facelift in 2023?

   • (Photo/Mady Mertens; MadyMertensPhotography) Sanford Stadium is getting a full facelift for the 2023 season. In step one of a two-step, $68.5 million renovation plan, the UGA Athletic Association has completely renovated the south side of Sanford and added new quality-of-life changes to the rest of the stadium.

   New season, new stadium: An update on Sanford Stadium's renovation

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   Why is Sanford Stadium so beautiful?

   • Sanford Stadium was built on two natural hillsides which gives it extraordinary beauty, especially with the privet hedge surrounding the field. That was the idea of a former Georgia business manager, Charlie Martin, who had gone to the Rose Bowl with his counterpart at Alabama in 1926.

   Sanford Stadium's seen a lot of history over 90 years - Online Athens

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   How much did the Sanford Stadium cost?

   • The stadium cost roughly $300,000 dollars to build and represented a landmark fund-raising effort by the University, perhaps, the best of all time. Dr. Sanford went about the state, coaxing 300 fans and supporters to sign bank notes of $1,000.00 each to pay for the cost of construction of the stadium that would bear his name.

   Sanford Stadium's seen a lot of history over 90 years - Online Athens

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   Why did Sanford Stadium have lights?

   • The lights were a product of a need for gate enhancement, which is how the stadium came about in the first place. The success of Dooley’s early teams would make an ever advancing enlargement of Sanford Stadium. Originall Sanford’s seating capacity was 30,000. Several enhancements and enlrgements followed:

   Sanford Stadium's seen a lot of history over 90 years - Online Athens

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   Did Dr Sanford build the biggest stadium in the south?

   • After the disappointment in Atlanta in 1927, Dr. Sanford was so incensed that he, according to another devout Bulldog historian, John Stegeman, vowed to build the biggest stadium in the South. Not only did he meet his own ambitious expectations, he orchestrated the building of the prettiest stadium.

   Sanford Stadium's seen a lot of history over 90 years - Online Athens

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9. www.onlineathens.com › story › sportsSanford Stadium's seen a lot of history over 90 years

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   Oct 9, 2019 · The cogency and brilliance of Dr. Sanford’s brainchild is confirmed when you become aware that 12 days after the dedication of the stadium with the 15-0 victory over Yale, the stock market...