Four years after it was stolen from his home, Vince Dooley has his first (and best) national championship ring back — the Auburn one.
Earned while helping coach his alma mater to the 1957 national title, the ring turned up last week at Athens Pawn Shop, Athens’ favorite pawn shop for eight consecutive years. According to a police report, the shop paid a Watkinsville, Ga. woman named Gloria Wright $400 for the priceless relic, which Gene Davis never gave up hope of finding.
Davis was the Athens police officer who handled Dooley’s home robbery case in 2011.