This story originally ran on GSEagles.com in 2014 on the 25 year anniversary of that legendary night. We are bring it back today for the 30th anniversary.
There was a canoe inside Paulson Stadium.
Georgia Southern Police Chief Ken Brown had wondered for years how a canoe wound up inside Paulson Stadium on the night of the "Hugo Bowl," Sept. 21, 1989. Many years later, it was discovered that Equipment Manager Roger Inman had brought it on the truck for the Eagle cheerleaders.
The canoe, though, was really the least of anyone's worries.