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| These Bulldogs defeated Yale in golf in 1929. The current Bulldogs will attempt to do the same this weekend in Florida. |
Georgia's first President, Abraham Baldwin, was a Yale graduate. Several of the first buildings on the Athens campus were designed from blueprints of structures in Connecticut. In 1929, Georgia christened Sanford Stadium with a 15-0 victory Yale.
And then there's little nugget from The New York Times on Oct. 11, 1929: "Leaving with the Yale football squad today for Athens, Ga., were also the fifty-piece Yale band and the four-man golf team, which will play the Georgia team on Saturday morning." And according to Georgia's Pandora yearbook, the host Bulldogs defeated the visiting Bulldogs 5-1.
Eighty-four years after that golf matchup, Georgia and Yale will renew their rivalry on Saturday at Mountain Lake Country Club in Lake Wales, Fla. The teams will play 36 holes of golf.
This stroke-play match will allow all nine Bulldogs to compete at the same time as opposed to the typical five-man lineup. The Georgia roster consists of senior T.J. Mitchell; juniors Brian Carter, Michael Cromie and Keith Mitchell; sophomores Mookie DeMoss, Nicholas Reach, Sam Straka and Sepp Straka; and freshman Lee McCoy. Junior Joey Garber is sidelined following shoulder surgery.
"This is a nice change of pace in our season," Georgia coach Chris Haack said. "Since it's spring break, we had some flexibility in our schedule, so I'm glad we were able to work this out. I also love the history that's attached to it. I think it's important that our guys know something about the men who came before them, so we've used this match as an opportunity to talk about that."
The Bulldogs will return to their regular-season schedule next Saturday and Sunday in the Linger Longer Invitational in Greensboro, Ga. Four of the Bulldogs' final five tournaments will take place in Georgia, including the NCAA Championship May 28-June 2 at the Capital City Club in Alpharetta.
