Bulldawg Illustrated continues its series, featuring long-time UGA personalities of the Fourth Estate. There are many who are published authors along with network television superstars. Our seventh installment spotlights honorary Bulldog Reg Murphy whose dynamic career began in newsrooms but led to leadership rolls with the National Geographic Society and the United States Golf Association.
Reg Murphy grew up in Gainesville, the chicken capital of the world, where he became a passionate Georgia football fan. Then with a point of pride, he adds, “as far back as I can remember.”
He became a distinguished writer, editor and publisher who lived only 40 miles from the UGA campus, an eight-year-old kid who enjoyed the good fortune of seeing Frank Sinkwich and Charley Trippi play Between the Hedges.