A half century ago the 1968 Georgia Bulldogs captured the Southeastern Conference championship during the most tumultuous year of the 20th century. As we approach the 50th anniversary of that “Sock it to Me” season, here is a remembrance of an extraordinary team and time.
Late on the evening of April 9, the day Martin Luther King Jr. was laid to rest in Atlanta, a thousand girls flooded out of Brumby Hall on the University of Georgia campus when two boiler room explosions rocked the dorm. Nothing nefarious was at play, simply a couple of overheated steam pipes and a blown electrical transformer.