With another trip to the Orange Bowl coming up for the Bulldogs, I have been reflecting on the trip to Miami in 1959 which ended up with Georgia defeating Missouri on New Year’s Day, 1960.
I owned a ’50 Ford, and gas was 30 cents a gallon which meant that if I drove the 690 miles to my destination and got 20 miles per gallon, it would take 35 gallons of gas to make the trip. That computed out to a little more than $10.00 to get there.
As sports editor of the Red & Black, my mentor and friend, Dan Magill, talked the business manager, Howell Hollis, into making out a check to me for $150.